For LOOK Photo Biennial 2019, Open Eye Gallery is welcoming a fresh team of people to help enhance our visitor experience. We are looking for exhibition assistants for the venues across the city region including; St George’s Hall, CBS Gallery, Convenience Gallery and Dark Side Art Lab (Birkenhead).

Volunteers will play a key role in the day to day running of the exhibition space, making it a welcoming and friendly environment. No previous experience or specialist knowledge is required, as full training will be provided. All we ask for is commitment, an interest in art, and, above all, an eagerness to represent LOOK Photo Biennial 2019.

Your duties will include greeting and directing visitors around the exhibitions, helping visitors to engage with the exhibition by providing information on the artworks, and invigilating the gallery spaces.

In return for your time you’ll gain work experience, as well as the chance to develop your skills and improve your career prospects through networking, while gaining a valuable insight into a photography biennial, working with a great team of like-minded people.

Travel expenses will be reimbursed up to £7.50 per day. We ask for a commitment of 1 day per week, 9:45 am – 5:15 pm (7.5 hours, with a 30 minute lunch break).

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If you want to be part of this, please fill out the form below and return it to sally@openeye.org.uk

Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.

We will be holding induction meetings (you’ll only need to attend one, so please specify if you have a preference) on Thursday 10 and Tuesday 15 of October. We’ll be having more after this, as the need arises.

Open Eye Gallery has a long established volunteer programme with a growing community focus. We are keen to encourage individuals from any cultural or educational background to apply we hope we can offer broad development opportunities.

  Retail

• Use of Point of Sale Systems
• Visual Merchandising
• Customer service

  Transferable skills

• Interpersonal development
• Public Speaking
• Leadership abilities
• Creative thinking
• Problem solving
• Research methodologies
• Organisation skills

Volunteers are an important and valued part of the Open Eye Gallery. Without volunteers Open Eye Gallery would not be able to offer high quality exhibitions and events to the public for free.  We want to ensure that volunteering at Open Eye Gallery helps you to achieve your goals, whatever they may be, and most of all that you enjoy the experience and feel like part of the team.

Open Eye Gallery provides free access to high quality, innovative and thought-provoking contemporary art from around the world. Gallery volunteers are a part of this creative environment and work amongst a team of engaging, committed and creative individuals. Volunteers play a key role in the day to day running of the Gallery, ensuring it is a welcoming and friendly place. Food and travel will be reimbursed up to £7.50 per day. Please download the following documents to apply and send completed applications to natalie@openeye.org.uk

New funding for Open Eye Gallery is allowing for the organisation and its partners to develop and upscale our work with socially engaged photography over the next three years. 

Working with new resources from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s More and Better programme, the organisation is introducing a 6 month professional development training opportunity. The training programme will support practitioners to explore how culture can be co-authored with a variety of cross-sector organisations and participants. 

The opportunity invites partners from across the health, dementia and care sector, criminal justice sector, community and charity sectors to share their expertise and knowledge of working within each area. Each session will offer practical and ethical support, as well as sharing case studies of projects, which highlight photography or digital media as a tool to co-produce work with people, rather than about people in each context.  Partners include NOVUS Prison Education, NHS Merseycare, Community Integrated Care, Photovoice just to name a few. There are 16 free places available 

As a free 6 month programme with limited capacity, we ask photographers or artists working with lens based media to submit a short application stating why they would benefit from the opportunity.  

Please send a current CV,  online link or PDF of your current arts practice, and supporting statement (no more than one A4 side) as to why you feel this opportunity would be appropriate for you at this stage in your career. Please send all information to liz@openeye.org.uk by no later than 31st August 2019. 

FULL LIST OF TRAINING SESSIONS AND DATES 

Monday 16th September
Safeguarding in the Arts 1pm – 4pm 

Monday 14th October, 1pm – 4pm 

Prison Craft – Working within the Criminal Justice Sector 

Monday 11 November 2019 

1 – 4pm 

Dementia as a lived condition / Working within the Care home setting 

Delivered jointly by NHS Merseycare and Community Integrated Care

Monday 16 December 2019 

1- 4pm 

Case studies and peer reviews 

Monday 27 January 2020 

FULL DAY (exact times tbc) 

Accredited Photovoice Training in partnership with Open Eye Gallery 

Monday 17 February 2020 

Social practitioners and Self Care delivered by Nicola Naismith 

We are inviting independent retailers, designers, illustrators and makers to submit pop-up shop proposals for our small, but perfectly formed gallery gift shop. We support local and regional artists/makers/creative entrepreneurs by offering a platform for promotion and sales. We are looking for design conscious products to sell in our shop: books, stationary, homewear, gifts and everything in between! Your merchandise should sit well alongside our contemporary publications, cameras and photography accessories. Please submit your proposals with a link to your website and images of your products together with pricing information to info@openeye.org.uk