Freelands Foundation

We're hiring a Digital Content & Communications Coordinator to play a key role in communicating our work through engaging written and visual content! Working collaboratively with the team, and select partners, you will tailor messages for our audiences, ensuring that communication across our digital channels is targeted, timely, consistent and relevant. This fixed-term role will be crucial in supporting the team as we launch our new website and digital asset management (DAM) system in the coming months, while maintaining engaging campaigns and regular digital communications. Salary: 32,000 per annum (pro-rata) Hours of work: 3 – 4 days per week Deadline to apply: 10am on Monday 11 November, 2024 Find out more about the role and how to apply, here: https://lnkd.in/e__dweSv

"The studio is really important to generate raw conversations, encourage risky work and open access to art. Practice-based learning is vital for art education." Henry Ward, Director of Freelands Foundation, joined 'Learning Exchange: Art Education Matters' – Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s 10th anniversary event marking their learning programmes and partnerships that support access to contemporary art and artists. Find out more and watch the full panel discussion online https://lnkd.in/ewhUxcpX

Coming Soon: Freelands Painting Prize 2024 2 October – 9 November 2024 Preview: 1 October, 6.30 – 8.30pm RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eHYgfT8N Freelands Foundation, 113 Regent's Park Rd, London, NW1 8UR   The Freelands Painting Prize celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level. Each year, we invite every higher education institution offering an undergraduate course in either Fine Art or Painting to nominate a final-year student for the prize and present three works representative of their practice; either paintings or works exploring painting in the expanded field.   The prize culminates in an annual exhibition of works by the 12 winning artists: - Ali Cook, Newcastle University - Iona Gordon, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University - Bunny Hennessey, City & Guilds of London Art School - Leila Hussain, University of Suffolk - Denny Kaulbach, Goldsmiths, University of London - Anugrah Mishra, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - Varshga Premarasa, Middlesex University - Benedict Robinson, Bath School of Art Film and Media , Bath Spa University - Shannon Ward, University of Wolverhampton - Parker White, University of Lincoln - Jack Woolley, The Art Academy - Unica Yabiku, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London Established in 2020 and now in its fifth year, the prize seeks to understand and celebrate where distinguished studio practice is taking place across the country, informing the Foundation’s interest in the curriculums and conditions guiding early career artists. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/ePt3N7ww

On Friday, the House of Lords debated the Visual Arts Manifesto, co-authored by DACS, us, and 21 other visual arts orgs from across the UK, detailing suggestions on necessary reforms to art education and how the new government can widen opportunity within the creative industries. 🔗 Read the 12-page manifesto at https://lnkd.in/evHw8Fu4

As Freelands Foundation maintains its mission and manifesto that art is central to a broad and balanced education, and a right for everyone, we’re proud to join our peers in the sector (including Art Fund, a-n The Artists Information Company, DACS and more) in calling on the successive UK government to invest more in creative education in schools. Our goal is to sustain the visual arts long-term and integrate visual literacy into all stages of the curriculum, enabling greater exposure for school children to engage with our vast ecosystem of cultural organisations. 🔗 Find out more about our collective suggestions at https://lnkd.in/e2mUUkAF

We are inviting tenders from experienced website development companies to design and develop a visually engaging, user-friendly and fully accessible website.   As Freelands Foundation approaches its 10 year anniversary in 2025, the new site will platform our work in an intuitive way and serve as the primary online hub for the organisation, providing information and resources for a range of users.    The selected company will be responsible for the entire development process, from the initial design phase to the creation, hosting, launch and ongoing maintenance and support.   Deadline for tender bids: 6pm Monday 17 June, 2024   Download the full brief from our website for more information of the submission process: https://lnkd.in/e6yQzbyf

We are inviting tenders from experienced website development companies to design and develop a visually engaging, user-friendly and fully accessible website.   As Freelands Foundation approaches its 10 year anniversary in 2025, the new site will platform our work in an intuitive way and serve as the primary online hub for the organisation, providing information and resources for a range of users.    The selected company will be responsible for the entire development process, from the initial design phase to the creation, hosting, launch and ongoing maintenance and support.   Deadline for tender bids: 6pm Monday 17 June, 2024   Download the full brief from our website for more information of the submission process: https://lnkd.in/e6yQzbyf

We're hiring! We are looking for a Digital Asset Manager to oversee the management, preservation and use of Freelands Foundation’s digital assets including over 51,000 images, 2000 videos, 600 audio files and 12,000 PDF resources, totalling over 1000 GB. The Digital Asset Manager will create and manage a solution to preserve this content and enable the population of the website’s new resource hub. The Digital Asset Manager will establish and deliver a programme of organisation and care. The Digital Asset Manager will report to the Head of Communications (maternity cover) and work closely with the Website Project Manager. Deadline: 10am on Wednesday 5 June, 2024 Find out more about the role and how to apply, here: https://lnkd.in/eywNtmeA

Visual literacy is increasingly relevant now, in this image dominated world. How are we preparing our children to analyse, critically engage and question the visual culture they are immersed in? Using art to support children’s learning and experiences is more important than ever. #TheSuperpowerofLooking Art UK Freelands Foundation a primary school arts programme encourages this 4th pillar of education by building on a sensory curriculum, including everyone in the learning experience. #visualliteracy #everyonelearning #adaptiveteaching #artseducation #SENDarts

Meet the grantees of our Autumn 2023 Fund: Autograph, who will work with The Photographers' Gallery London Gallery to support and expand the personal practice of art and photography teachers. An annual, six-month Visual Practice Residency, will allow artist teachers to create a new body of work within and beyond the school environment. Contains Art at East Quay Watchet, who will work to improve the cultural capital of teachers in West Somerset by supporting them to feel confident in their own creative expression, cared for in their personal wellbeing, and connected to one another and the artistic community. Focal Point Gallery who will partner with Metal and @The Other MA (TOMA) to bring Southend artists and teachers together in transformative ways. They will run Creative Break Time, a project that aims to radically shift the access of teachers to creative time, fostering inspiration, collaboration, and peer learning. THE MAC (METROPOLITAN ARTS CENTRE) who is creating an exchange between teachers, artists and the institution to demonstrate the value of art education in schools. Image: Courtesy of Autograph. Find out more about all of our grantees at the link below: https://lnkd.in/dvBTfgHG