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Artist or maker studio joinging our Pentlands Open Studios art trail
Pentlands Open Studios
Pentlands Open Studios (POSt) is looking for local professional artists and makers to join their new collective. The first open studios trail is to take place over the weekend of 30/31 August 2025 and the Open Call for applications to join goes live 15 March 2025 for four weeks. The catchment area is southwest Edinburgh in the villages of the upper valley of the Water of Leith: Colinton, Juniper Green, Currie and Balerno.
Location: Colinton, Juniper Green, Currie and Balerno area. Upper valley of the Water of Leith, Edinburgh
Deadline: 12 April 2025
Strategic Comms + Partnerships Manager
Studio Lutalica
Studio Lutalica, a feminist and queer-led design studio, is looking for a Communications and Partnerships Manager to join our team on a 12-month contract. This role is part of an exciting new project to implement a sponsorship strategy that will help fund discounted and pro-bono work for underrepresented communities. You’ll develop and lead our communications strategy, build meaningful partnerships, and drive fundraising efforts to expand our impact. Working closely with our growth team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape this new role and make a real difference in creating a more equitable system. If you’re passionate about social change, skilled in building relationships, and have a talent for storytelling, we’d love to hear from you. 🌈 We strongly encourage applications from women, LGBTQ+ people, and other underrepresented groups.
Location: Remote
Deadline: 13 April 2025
Head of Communications
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse Theatre is looking for a creative and motivated Head of Communications to be responsible for overseeing and developing our communications strategies across programme, events, brand and audience engagement, whilst maximising income generation through effective campaigns and communications.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 14 April 2025
Interior Design Competition
Darlow Smithson
Ten talented designers. One life-changing contract. Alan Carr and interiors guru Michelle Ogundehin are on the hunt for creative, passionate, and innovative designers. If you are ready to showcase your talent for interior design, we want to hear from you! Apply online Applicants must be 18 years of age or over. Applicants must also be a current legal resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Location: Various
Deadline: 13 April 2025
Momentum International Industry Coordinator
Festivals Edinburgh
Join the Momentum team this year, welcoming key international cultural players to the Edinburgh Festivals and helping them to get the most out of their visit. Momentum is an international delegate programme, delivered by Festivals Edinburgh, on behalf of Edinburgh’s festivals, British Council Scotland, and Creative Scotland. It provides a dynamic platform for key cultural players from across the world to engage and build relationships with Edinburgh’s festivals, the wider Scottish cultural sector, and the international community that flocks to our city during the summer festivals season. Momentum 2025 will welcome 8 international delegations, each hosted by one of the Momentum partners. The International Industry Coordinators will work closely with the hosts and the international delegates to schedule their itinerary in advance of their visit and to manage changes and additions while they are in Edinburgh. We are looking for someone super-organised and unflappable, with an understanding of Edinburgh’s festivals, great communication skills, and experience of juggling complex schedules.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 14 April 2025
Conservation Technician - Paper
National Galleries of Scotland
Full-time and Fixed Term for 9 months (maternity cover) Start date end of June 2025 Salary £28,707 - £29,961 per annum (pay award pending) Plus generous benefits package On-site About the role A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Conservation Technician to assist with the delivery of our paper conservation programme. You’ll enjoy this role if you like creative problem solving, using your experience with mounting and framing, as well as utilising your excellent communication skills. Working as part of a dedicated and talented team, your main focus will be to devise and implement systems to ensure that the National Galleries of Scotland collections, and those works on loan to us, are displayed, stored and transported in a safe and appropriate manner. You’ll prepare art works upon acquisition, or for the public, loans and collections care programmes. Delivering technical paper conservation work, you’ll follow standard methodologies as appropriate but also find innovative solutions where necessary. You will also develop your paper conservation hand skills. You will be accustomed to monitoring progress against agreed targets and knowledge sharing. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: - Designing and cutting mounts and securing objects within them. - Removing objects from, and putting objects into, frames. - Making cradles and supports for display case objects. - Upgrading primary housing and creating packing systems as necessary. - Making new standard frames and liaising with colleagues to organise the manufacture of complex frames. - Improving and upgrading internal frame packaging for existing frames. The difference you’ll make Working closely with the Senior Conservation Technician and the wider team your responsibilities will include: - Assisting with the public programme, loans or for collections care projects. - Organising the movement of paper-based objects in and out of the Conservation Department, ensuring that location records are maintained. - Ensuring that objects in the paper conservation studio are safe and secure, and that the studio is tidy and well organised. - Liaising with the Paper Conservators and the Digitisation team to organise the photography of objects as required. - Monitoring the progress of work so that any potential failure to meet deadlines can be identified and addressed, and therefore collections care work can be programmed in when capacity permits. - Maintaining conservation equipment and ensuring the appropriate levels of conservation materials are available. - Undertaking courier duties for NGS as agreed and required. - Providing specialist advice and training for colleagues throughout the organisation. - Ensuring that any contractors have the resources they need for their work. - Assisting with the supervision of interns, placement students and volunteers. - Publicising and promoting the activity of the paper conservation and of the Conservation Department as a whole, both internally and externally, by giving talks, tours, and presentations and writing content for traditional publications and social media. - Complying with our guidelines on health and safety as well as contributing to the development of good health and safety practices. Who we are looking for To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following range of knowledge, skills, and experience: - Experience in the safe handling and movement of works of art within a museum/gallery environment. - Proven experience in handling archival items and frames; producing high quality mounts; framing artworks along with working with and maintaining paper conservation technician equipment. - Awareness of conservation issues including ethical considerations. - Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills where standard methods are not appropriate. - Very strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce clear and accurate documentation and communicate effectively with both internal and external contacts. - Ability to organise, meet deadlines and prioritise work. - Willingness to continually develop technical skills with regard to new methods and techniques in conservation and the cultural heritage sector and actively engaging in CPD. - Ability to work effectively as part of a team, with a proactive approach to sharing information with colleagues. - Proficient IT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. - Experience of following health and safety practices in the workplace. It would also be great if you have: - Experience of working in a museum or gallery with knowledge and appreciation of art, particularly in relation to artists’ techniques. - Proficiency in using a collections management database. - Experience in completing risk assessments and method statements. - Familiarity with the operation of a mount-cutting machine as well as experience of constructing simple frames. - Experience of devising and creating display solutions for a variety of paper objects. - A Conservation Technician Qualification or Diploma. - Driving licence. Please apply directly via our careers portal. Applications via email will not be accepted. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday, 15 April 2025.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 15 April 2025
FREE Artist Open Call | The Gallery, Season 5
Artichoke
The Gallery, the UK's largest public art exhibition, is a cultural institution without walls, redefining how art is seen. Selected works appear on thousands of digital screens and billboards across 55+ UK towns and cities. Over four seasons, it has amassed 200+ million views. The Gallery Season 5 is proud to partner with the British Council for its UK/Brazil Season of Culture. The Gallery is inviting artists to make work in response to the theme: It’s Not Easy Being Green.
Location: UK, Brazil and online
Deadline: 13 April 2025
Customer Service Manager
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse Theatre is looking for an energetic and experienced Customer Service Manager to be responsible for the management of the customer service team across Front of House and Bar, ensuring first class customer experience whilst maximising income generation through effective planning of operations and services.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 14 April 2025
Online Talk
National Museum of Scotland
Join artists Angela Palmer and Alec Finlay as they discuss how they used art to explore the science behind and experiences of COVID-19. Science and art are often seen as opposites. However, when scientists and artists work together the results can improve our understanding of both. In this free, online panel discussion, artists Angela Palmer and Alec Finlay, whose artworks feature in our current Injecting Hope exhibition, will explore artistic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and consider how art can help us gain new insights into and understandings of complex science and shared experiences. 2020: the Sphere that Changed the World by Angela Palmer Image: Science Museum Group. © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Location: Online
Deadline: 17 April 2025