Eastside Projects
Artist Curator Traineeship 2025-26
We are looking for someone to join the Eastside Projects team and learn how to be an artist-curator through hands-on experience.
Job Description
Fixed term contract for 18 months
Ideal Start Date: Tuesday 25 March 2025
Hours: 0.8 FTE - 30 hours per week usually across four days
Salary: Real Living Wage - currently £12.00 p/h (£18,720 per annum), rising to £12.60 ph from 1 April 2025 (£19,656 per annum)
Our artist Curator Trainees are involved in everything we do. Eastside Projects is run by a very small team, so day-to-day you will be working directly with Artist Curator Trainee Harmanpreet Randhawa, Artist Maker Ruth Claxton and Artist Curator Gavin Wade. You'll also work with and support artists we commission, freelance technicians, EOP members, our advisory board, exhibition and event visitors, and communities beyond the gallery.
Eastside Projects is an artist-run multiverse based in a free public gallery in Digbeth. We say multiverse because 'organisation' or 'space' are not enough. We mean that we imagine Eastside Projects as a process, as a place where multiple narratives and experiences coexist.
Since 2008 we have been supporting artists, making art, being incidental, thinking-in-public, curating exhibitions, programming events, working alongside communities, producing public art projects, imagining new realities and demonstrating what an Artist-Led space can be.
We are different from many other galleries and so strongly recommend you familiarise yourself with our programme and way of working before making an application so you can be sure we are a good fit for you. The best way to do that is by exploring our website and checking out the Public Projects and the About sections in particular.
ONLINE PRE-APPLICATION WORKSHOP
Thursday 9 January, 1-2pm.
Find out more and ask any questions at our informal, online pre-application workshop. Book your place at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eastsideprojects/1493922
Job Requirements
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Job Responsibilities
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Useful Links
How to Apply
Find the job pack and application form at https://eastsideprojects.org/opportunities/
Contact name: Ruth Claxton
Contact email: info@eastsideprojects.org
About Eastside Projects
Eastside Projects is an artist-run multiverse based in a free public gallery in Digbeth, Birmingham.
We commission artists, make art, think-in-public, curate exhibitions, programme events, work alongside communities, build relationships, create production facilities, support artists, produce public art projects, generate and apply research, develop talent, train artist-curators, and imagine new realities.