Short Description
We are looking for someone to join the Eastside Projects team and learn how to be an artist-curator through hands-on experience.
Eastside Projects is committed to being an inclusive, equitable organisation. We are particularly keen to support people who are currently underrepresented in the visual arts, including people with Global Ethnic Majority heritage, people who have faced socio-economic barriers, and people with disabilities.
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 organisations 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
Fixed-term contract: 18 months
Ideal Start Date: Tuesday 02 December 2025
Hours: 0.8 FTE – 30 hours per week, usually across four days
Salary: Real Living Wage – currently £12.60 ph (£19,656 per annum)
Eligibility
- You’ll be an artist who wants to make their own projects, exhibitions, support structures, or organisations-as-artworks in the future.
- You will be really into contemporary visual art, and interested in the kinds of artists that we work with. You don’t have to have studied it, but you do need to have some knowledge as we want you to introduce us to ideas, work and artists that you think we should know about.
- You’ll enjoy working on lots of different things at the same time.
- You’ll be comfortable in situations where you don’t quite know what is coming next.
- You’ll be a good problem solver who isn’t afraid to suggest ideas, use their own initiative and think laterally to find solutions to creative and practical challenges.
- You will probably be one of the people who organises things. These may already be exhibitions or art projects but equally might be non-art related – putting on events that bring people together, developing community projects, or even organising everyone on a night out.
- You will enjoy being hands on – some of the time you will be focused on admin, doing social media or uploading stuff to the website, but at other times you will be installing shows, helping run workshops in schools, hosting EOP Grounding Test events, or assisting artists on their projects. We don’t expect you to have done these things before, so you need to be up for a challenge!
- You will be a confident communicator who enjoys meeting, talking to and working with all kinds of people.
- You need to be over 18 years old. And have the right to work in the UK.
- You do not need a degree in Art to apply, but you do need comparable experience for example, gained through an apprenticeship, work experience or by developing your own projects.
Please note this role cannot be combined with education, so please do not apply if you are currently studying at any level.
How to Apply
Please send a completed Application Form to info@eastsideprojects.org, writing ‘Artist Curator Traineeship’ in the subject line of your email. We aim to acknowledge receipt of your application within a week.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 3 October 2025
Website Link: https://eastsideprojects.org/opportunities/
