Call for Applicants for new LUX Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline for Applications: Midnight on 1st May 2020 (New Deadline)
Dates: May 2020 – October 2021 inclusive
Days: Part time – days by agreement including some evening and weekend work (with time off in lieu)
Salary: £28,000 pro-rata for 3 days a week
Contract: 18 months fixed term, with 3-month probationary period
Responsible to: LUX Director
Responsible for: Freelancers, volunteers
Based at: LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Waterlow Park, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF
LUX is a public arts organisation that supports and promotes visual artists working with the moving image. Based in London and Glasgow, it delivers a range of activities including exhibitions, screenings, educational projects, commissioning and research. It also manages Europe’s largest collection of films and videos made by artists and distributes them to museums, galleries and festivals around the world. It is based in its own building in Waterlow Park, Highgate, North London and offers a friendly, creative working environment in a public park.
The LUX Curatorial Fellowship is a new initiative which offers an emergent curator the opportunity to curate the on and offsite LUX London programme over an 18- month period with professional development support from LUX staff. We are looking for creative, committed individual who is passionate about the work of LUX and sharing it with the widest range of publics. We are interested in your ideas and want to learn from you too so applicants should not feel that they need to solely reflect LUX’s previous work but also make bold propositions for the future of artists’ moving image practices. In return LUX can offer a supportive, creative work environment, access to our large national and international networks and day to day mentoring support, including ongoing professional development support beyond the contracted period as part of the fellowship alumni.
The LUX public programme includes a regular public exhibition programme in the LUX space, as well as events (screenings, talks, performances and workshops) across other spaces and beyond LUX with other partner venues. The programme may consist of up to 6 exhibitions a year plus monthly events and residencies. The public programme of LUX aims to showcase new voices and overlooked histories in international artists’ moving image practices building on the 50+ year history of the organisation and its large international networks to create connections between the local, national and international aspects of LUX’s activities. Furthermore, we are committed to using the programme to open up LUX’s work to the widest possible range of audiences and users, and as a catalyst for the public to explore their own creativity.
Please note this role involves regular evening and weekend work supporting LUX public events with time of in lieu, so a degree of flexibility is needed in this role.
The visual arts sector in the UK currently does not reflect the communities in which it works. LUX is committed to addressing this through all aspects of its work and we particularly welcomes applications from individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds, from low income backgrounds and disabled people all groups who are currently underrepresented within the LUX and general UK visual arts workforce.
