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Jerwood Bursaries

A Jerwood Bursary can support your development by funding meaningful opportunities to reflect on and grow your creative practice. This might include new partners for collaboration, receiving mentoring or taking part in training, conferences and workshops. It can support development of your creative practice by covering the costs of self-initiated residencies and by supporting early-stage research and testing of brand new ideas. We want you to suggest activities that will help you to learn and take control of the development of your artistic practice and career.

Site & Technical Manager (Longside)

We are looking for a Site and Technical Manager to be responsible for the day-to-day operational and site management of the Arts Council Collection Centre for Sculpture based at Longside, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and to manage the safe and efficient s …

Ten Acres of Sound Open Call

Artefact is producing a festival of experimental sound production in Stirchley, South Birmingham. Drawn out over three weeks and happening throughout the district, it aims to be akin to something between an avant-garde concert series, a site-specific exhibition and a messed up village fete.

Curator

Open Eye Gallery is looking for a Curator who will develop a relevant, diverse, powerful programme, embrace co-authorship and work effectively with our arts, academic, community and other partners to create, share and champion photography.

Exhibitions and Collection Technician

DRAF is seeking a resourceful and motivated Exhibitions and Collection Technician to assist with the care, storage and presentation of works from the David Roberts Collection (DRC) and preparation and installation of temporary exhibitions and events at the David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF).

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 is open to individual artists or collaborative groups.

Assistant Gallery Manager

The role of Assistant Gallery Manager offers you a unique insight into the workings of a small independent gallery where as well you working to serve and sell to our customers, you will have the opportunity to work with unique collections learning how to acquire (sourcing & buying), catalogue -through our management systems, display and promote them.

Trustees

The Board of Birmingham Big Art Foundation (Birmingham Big Art Project) is seeking to appoint two new Trustees to join the board and help the charity achieve its mission of creating a landmark public artwork made with and for Birmingham through the pro …

Associate Artists

Over the last 5 years, Birmingham Education Partnership have been exemplary leaders in recognising the intrinsic value that arts, culture and creativity play towards school improvement, teacher development and the life and learning of our young people. Last year we successfully launched our team of specialist Associate Artists from across artforms, and they are now working on bespoke teaching and learning projects, delivering CPD, and supporting school improvement and curriculum development across the city of Birmingham. We are now seeking to extend the scope in this offer via our new 2020/21 Associate Artist brochure (to be launched to the schools in April 2020) and welcome applications from across arts and creativity.

Two Queens seeks a chair for a new board of trustees

We are looking for a chair who understands the ethos and aims of Two Queens as an artist-run space, and the unique contributions and challenges that come with an organisation of this kind. The chair will take an active role in strengthening the organisational structure, opening up new and alternative sources of funding, and be willing to lead a group of fellow trustees with skills relevant to the organisation’s aspirations.

Three Artist Commission Opportunities: Wentworth & Elsecar

Arts organisation Beam has been appointed by Wentworth & Elsecar (WE) Great Place scheme to develop an ambitious programme of three temporary site specific public art commissions across the three ‘Great Place Scheme’ heritage sites of Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth Castle Gardens and Elsecar Heritage Centre.

Teacher of Art

Oakham School are looking to appoint an outstanding Teacher of Art to join a talented team of teachers in a busy, popular department to commence in post in September 2020.

Contemporary Art Commission Open Call

As part of the East Riding Visual Arts Uplift we are proud to announce this contemporary artistic commission in collaboration with Sewerby Hall and Gardens for the year 2020. There is an all inclusive commission fee of £8,000 available to the shortlisted artist to create a piece of contemporary artwork that is site specific and fits the stated artistic brief. 

Seasonal Museum Enablers

We are currently recruiting Seasonal Museum Enablers to work at our Historic Properties for Birmingham Museums Trust. Working as part of the Historic Properties Team you will spend the season delivering an excellent experience for our visitors. You’ll be working in all public-facing areas of our historic properties including the reception desk, our gift shops and even our charming tearooms. We’re looking for enthusiastic candidates who love working with people, can deliver service with a smile and love Birmingham!  If you’re happy to get stuck in with everything from answering telephones to putting on incredible events then you might be just who we are looking for!

Curator of Fine Art

We are recruiting a Curator of Fine Art, who will support the Senior Curator in building York Art Gallery’s position as a leading gallery in the North of England. This will encompass the delivery of high-profile programming and temporary exhibitions, developing its Fine Art collections, and continuing the family friendly and visitor-focused engagement for which York Art Gallery has won awards.

Gallery Assistant

We are looking for a committed and ambitious person to join our team at the Centrala Gallery. The successful candidate will have an outgoing personality, be interested in contemporary visual arts with emphasis on Central and Eastern European art and culture, be reliable and well organised.

Freelance Fundraiser

Made In Corby are looking for an experienced fundraiser to support our Creative People & Places programmes in Corby and Wellingborough. Working closely with the Programme Director, and the Producers for each area, the fundraiser will seek out new funding opportunities and build upon existing relationships with lottery distributors and a range of trusts/foundations. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable track record of fundraising from a range of sources, including non-arts funders, be an excellent communicator and able to think strategically and imaginatively.

International Art Competition Open

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 3rd “Open” Online Art Competition for the month of January 2020. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. There is no theme in this …

Visual artists wanted for collaboration with composer.

Composer looking for visual artists interested in using music as an integral part of an exhibition.

Relationship Fundraiser

Junction Arts are recruiting our first fundraiser. We are seeking an individual with demonstrable fundraising experience to be our first ‘Relationship Fundraiser’.

OPEN CALL Postcard Show

We invite you to create postcard size artworks to exhibit with us in March 2020. Open to all ages and abilities, artists and creatives. This show celebrates the humble postcard as a format and material for creating artworks. 

The Little Drawing Exhibition – Open Call

If you know a little artist aged 0-4 years old who loves to draw we’d be thrilled if you would enter their work for our Little Drawing Exhibition. A panel of judges will select works from those submitted and they will be displayed alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in our gallery. This is a unique opportunity for early years children to show their work alongside the best drawings in Britain from 22nd February to 25th April 2020.

Stand Up! Call for Submissions

At Artcore Gallery our spring open show, STAND UP!, invites artists from across the world to explore and celebrate International Women’s Day. STAND UP! will investigate the role of women in the arts, and their huge impact on the cultural fabric of contemporary society. It will be a platform for artists to re-imagine citizenship, identity and women’s labour with a view to informing new visions for the future, in testing times.

Artist Call Out: Small Print International 6

In this age of immediate and widespread communication, Small Print International 6 is taking us back to a time when personal, hand drawn correspondence was treasured. For our sixth edition, we are inviting artists to create work inspired by the first Aerogramme, which was introduced into the Iraqi postal service in 1933 by the Inspector General of Posts and Telegraphs. Self-adhesive strips along the edges of the paper allowed it to be folded and sealed, and therefore private, without the added weight of an envelope.

(In)security – Call for Artist Researchers

We are delighted to invite applications from artists to work alongside academics from Humanities, Engineering and Social Sciences to develop projects that critically examine counter-terrorism security measures in Birmingham and experiment with alternative notions of safety. We are looking for three artist researchers to work alongside academics to develop ideas for individual or collaborative projects dealing with the theme.

WomenCinemakers 2020 – Biennale for women filmmakers and artists

WomenCinemakers is now accepting submissions from female filmmakers, directors and producers for its 2020 Biennial Edition. We are looking for shorts, documentaries and features written, directed or produced by women.

St Hugh’s Foundation for the Arts 2020 Arts Awards

The St Hugh’s Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce that the application process for its 2020 Arts Awards Programme is now open. Artists and arts organisations in the City of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire) are encouraged to apply for the Development Award – £3-5,000 for testing something in its very early stages, or contributing to the development of artistic practice – and the Main Award – up to £10,000 for a larger project that is further along in its development.

Research & Co working Space

Co working & Research Space is available in Haarlem’s purpose built top floor library. We have bespoke wooden handmade desks in our  beautiful library,  perfect to plug in your laptop and connect to the wifi . When you are ready for a break come downstairs to our Haarlem kitchen for  tea and coffee with soup for everyone on a Friday.  This is a wonderful opportunity to join our growing creative community for £50 a month, inclusive of utilities, tea and coffee and Friday Soup.

The Notice Board and Flag Project

The Notice Board is a contemporary visual art project showcasing the editioned work of international artists in two public venues in Uffington, Lincolnshire. The Notice Board features month-long exhibitions on the theme The Lands of the Free? Its ambition is to connect audiences to the work of artists whilst offering unusual sites for artists to showcase work.