Govanhill Baths | Vacancies: Moving Image Artist, Culture Collective Project

Opportunities for:

1. A staff moving-image artist and,
2. Freelance photographer and freelance video-maker for project documentation.

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Moving Image Artist, Culture Collective Project

Salary:£18,000, 22.5 hours a week (£30,000 full-time equivalent)

Plus 4% pension

Starting Oct/Nov 2021 for 12 months

The full details of the post and how to apply are available for download here.

Summary: Govanhill Baths is a grassroots, activist-based, organisation in the heart of Glasgow’s Govanhill delivering wide ranging health, wellbeing, arts, environmental and heritage projects. We are employing five artists or creative practitioners to join us in that delivery, as part of the national Culture Collective project of Creative Scotland. This position is one of those 5 artists. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years experience and a proven record of committed socially engaged practice.

The artist will be working flexibly with the Govanhill community to co-design and co-create an artistic programme of work over the course of a year. The work will begin in a placement with an established organisation and its progress will be managed with the project manager and community representatives. This artist will be working with people of colour and representative organisations. Govanhill has a richly diverse population and the largest Roma population in Scotland. Participants will come from this, other groups, and open calls.

Access: Please get in touch as soon as possible if we can make this opportunity more accessible to you.

Application: The full details of the post and how to apply are available for download here.

Deadline: Applications must be in by 12noon, Wednesday 15 September 2021.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for 1st interview on Wednesday 29 September 2021, and a reduced shortlist for 2nd interview on Wednesday 13 October 2021.

Please note that these are the only interview times available.

​Please write to info@govanhillbaths.com if you have difficulty getting the application documents.

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Two freelancers sought for documentation of the Govanhill Baths Culture Collective project over a 12 month period

  • Stills photographer and
  • Video / Moving Image maker

Starting Oct/Nov 2021 for 12 months

The full details of this work and how to apply are available for download here.

We need a photographer and a video-maker who will enthusiastically apply themselves to the documentation of this project, working alongside the five artists and the community.

We want documentation that tells the story of the project, including different viewpoints, the routine as well as the big events, the highs and the lows. The primary medium for the documentation will be online.

The work will be awarded to someone with:

  • Strong professional experience of similar work
  • An understanding of the local artistic and cultural scene
  • A commitment to diversity, equality and justice
  • A proactive, flexible and open approach to work

The full details of this work and how to apply are available for download here.

Deadline: Deadline for the first stage is 9am, Wednesday 8 September 2021.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to create a brief, practical, proposal.

​​Please write to info@govanhillbaths.com if you have difficulty getting the application documents.

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