Audience Engagement Consultant job

RENAISSANCE STRATEGIC SUPPORT FUNDING ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

Access All Areas: Harrogate Museums and Arts, Culture/Tourism/Sports, Harrogate Borough Council

Invitation for expression of interest. 
If you are interested in this project please email your CV and an expression of your interest in the project, saying why you think you would be suitable, to diane.taylor@harrogate.gov.uk by 5pm on Monday 22^nd April 2013.

Interviews will be held at the Mercer Art Gallery, Swan Road, Harrogate on  Monday 29^th April 2013 with a start date as soon as possible afterwards.

Project Title:              THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE: MERCER ART GALLERY EXHIBITION 2013

Length of project:      6 months

Dates:                          May to October 2013

Commission:               Audience Engagement Consultant

Fee:                             £8,500 FTE paid in 6 monthly instalments

Supervisor:                 Diane Taylor, Audience Development Officer

Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to involve our local communities, including the Friends of the Mercer Art gallery and and the Friends of Harrogate District Museums, local councillors, young people, local celebrities, community groups and local organisations in the making of an exhibition of works of art selected from our own collection.

This is all part of Harrogate: Access All Areas, a wide ranging project, the aim of which is to bring more people of all ages into contact with our collections, and to develop a body of new research on the collections that will lead to new exhibitions, publications and other forms of interpretation.

The idea for The People’s Choice project is that people will be invited to choose their favourite painting, print or drawing from the collection to go on display. Then we will ask individuals to write or dictate a couple of paragraphs about why they have chosen this picture, or possibly draw their response.  Some popular pictures will be chosen by more than one person.

Individuals and groups will be invited to be involved in different ways including:

·         Selecting from the BBC Your Paintings website, which has all the oils and acrylics from Harrogate’s collection on it;

·         Selecting from works currently on show in our exhibition All Dressed Up;

·         Attending a special session or workshop with works on paper brought out from the store;

·         Being involved in an outreach session at their community venue using computer or printed images of a group of art works from our collection.

The project outcomes will include:

·         the exhibition and its interpretation in the Main Gallery of the Mercer 13 July to 15 September 2013;

·         a publication containing all the selectors’ statements about the art;

·         a programme of events throughout the exhibition’s run;

·         engagement with a wide range of audiences across the Harrogate district through a variety of methods;

·         evaluation of the community involvement to be carried out at the end of the exhibition.

The Harrogate Fine Art Collection
The Mercer has outstanding early 20th century pictures bought in the immediate post-war period, including works by W R Sickert, Paul Nash, Christopher Wood, Edward Wadsworth and Ivon Hitchens. Harrogate’s most famous artist is the great Victorian painter, William Powell Frith, of whose work the gallery has excellent holdings. Other great Victorians in the collection include Leeds born Victorian Leeds landscape painter Atkinson Grimshaw, the Pre Raphaelite Edward Burne –Jones, landscapist James Buxton Knight, horse painter John Herring and pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Harrogate has many works depicting famous local picturesque sites, such as Fountains Abbey, Wharfedale, Nidderdale, and aspects of the built heritage in Harrogate, Ripon and Knaresborough. There are watercolours and cartoons by Rowlandson, Templar and others, plus prints and posters relating to the region’s long history of tourism. British women artists of the 20th century are particularly well represented in the collection, including Nina Hamnet, Anna Zinkeisen and Dame Laura Knight. There is a growing element of contemporary British art, including works by Alan Davie, David Mach, Tacita Dean and Andy Goldsworthy.

The People’s Choice Audience Engagement Consultant: Person Specification

·         You will have a first degree in an appropriate subject

·         You will have either:

o   a post graduate qualification in museum and/or gallery studies or an education specialism or

o   demonstrable experience working in the museum and gallery sector

o   demonstrable experience working in a learning environment or with different audiences

·         An interest in involving museum and gallery audiences  of all ages and backgrounds with our collections

·         Very good communication skills, plus very good writing, photography and computer skills.

·         A basic  knowledge of History of Art.

You will be provided with a lap top and camera to work on the project, plus the space to work at the gallery. It is anticipated that some work will be carried out at community locations around the Harrogate District.

Research Associate Job

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, PICTURING FINANCE PROJECT Closing date: 15 January 2013 Reference: HUM- Faculty / organisational unit: Humanities School / Directorate: Arts, Languages and Cultures Division: English and American Studies Salary: £29,249 Employment type: Fixed term Hours per week: 0.5FTE Location: University of Manchester (in collaboration with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland) Applications are invited for a 0.5 AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate post. This post is part of the ‘Picturing Finance’ project led by the Principal Investigator, Dr Peter Knight, that will stage an exhibition on the visual imagination of Anglo-American financial capitalism over the last three centuries. Working closely with Alistair Robinson (Director, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art) and the project Investigators, you will assist in curating the exhibition. You will be responsible for conducting research in archives, libraries and museums to identify and source suitable objects for the exhibition. You will write captions for the objects, and develop content for the section of NGCA’s website accompanying the exhibition. You will organise an outreach seminar involving leading figures from the realms of journalism, politics and the banking industry, as well as liaising with the NGCA’s education outreach team. You will also contribute a chapter to the catalogue that will be co-authored by the project Investigators. This appointment will begin on 1 April 2013 and last 15 months, and will require working in both Manchester and Sunderland, as well as travel to archives in the UK and US. The likely interview date is 1 February 2013. Informal enquiries Informal inquiries may be made to Dr Peter Knight, Principal Investigator, Division of English and American Studies Email: peter.knight@manchester.ac.uk Project information: www.imageoffinance.com The University of Manchester values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Further particulars www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

Postgraduate Student Opportunity - Conference Administrator

The ‘Re-Visioning the Brontës’ conference will take place at Leeds in January 2013. This one day cross-disciplinary conference will explore the contemporary ‘re-visioning’ of the Brontës through critically examining recent artistic responses and interpretations of their work. A collaboration between the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery and the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, the conference will coincide with two related exhibitions at the Gallery and Leeds College of Art. The conference is funded through a HEIF V award, (the University of Leeds Higher Education Innovation Fund).

We are hoping to recruit a postgraduate student from the department for the post of Conference Administrator, to work closely with the organisers (Nick Cass and Liz Stainforth) to ensure the smooth running of the related administration and the conference itself. The post will be for 8 days worked flexibly between August 2012 and January 2013, paid at University Grade 3 (£15,151 pa pro rata). Hours and days to be negotiated. The closing date is Friday, 6 July 2012.

For further details, please follow the link below and download the application form via the 'news' section of the Gallery homepage: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/

Informal enquiries should be directed to: Nick Cass (N.Cass@leeds.ac.uk) or Liz Stainforth (E.M.Stainforth@leeds.ac.uk).

Rise Art, the curated art marketplace, recently launched across the UK. The website, which commissions and promotes the work of talented emerging and established artists across the globe, now has thousands of artists portfolios listed across the site, and a growing board of curators who, along with our users help select the artists featured across the site.

The team at Rise Art has announced an open call for submissions. Artists are encouraged to submit their profile and upload works to the site.

Artists and enthusiasts can also take advantage of Rise Art's community tools to connect with one another and promote upcoming events and exhibitions. To get started visit www.riseart.com

Finally, the team is looking for current Leeds students with a keen interest in curatorial and gallery studies to participate in the public discourse on Rise Art and help shortlist artist portfolios across the website for consideration. If you would like to get involved, please email the Rise Art team at info (at) Rise Art (dot) com.