We’re delighted that you’re interested in working with us here at MK Gallery. The enormous input and support we receive from our employees is central to our success as one of the UK's leading public galleries.
Associate Artists
MK Gallery is currently recruiting for enthusiastic artists, educators and creative practitioners to join its pool of Freelance Associate Artists at this exciting time. Associate Artists work with MK Gallery’s Learning Team to support the direct development and delivery of the Learning Programme which seeks to nurture children and young people’s creative potential, through a programme for early years, childhood learning, families and young people. Applicant artists must be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for working with audiences, an interest in participatory based practice and excellent people and communication skills.
Download an application pack
Please submit your CV, statement and recruitment monitoring form by
10am on
24 January 2019 to Kate Chadwick, Deputy Director, MK Gallery, 3 Theatre Walk, Milton Keynes, MK9 3PX. Or email to
kchadwick@mkgallery.org.
Interviews will be held at MK Gallery in early February.
Learning Scouts
MK Gallery is currently recruiting for confident and enthusiastic freelance Learning Scouts to support the delivery and growth of our Learning Programme at this exciting time. Learning Scouts (a role designed to complement our established pool of Associate Artists) will work with MK Gallery’s Learning Team to support the day-to-day delivery of the Learning Programme which seeks to inspire early years, school pupils, families and young people to connect with themes from the Gallery’s exhibitions programme. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for working with audiences and excellent people and communication skills in order to talk confidently about exhibition themes and inspire a range of audiences via different exhibition encounters.
Download an application packPlease submit your CV, statement and recruitment monitoring form by
10am on
28 January 2019 to Kate Chadwick, Deputy Director, MK Gallery, 3 Theatre Walk, Milton Keynes, MK9 3PX. Or email to
kchadwick@mkgallery.org.
Interviews will be held at MK Gallery in early February.
Citylab Bursaries: Call for proposals
We are inviting proposals from early career artists (within five years of completing an undergraduate degree) living and working in Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Herts, Northants and Oxfordshire to develop site-specific works in any medium or art form which respond to and temporarily animate City Club – a major new commission developed by artists Gareth Jones and Nils Norman. City Club both surrounds the newly expanded Gallery as three external spaces – a garden, piazza and playscape – as well as informing the interior of the new gallery building. Proposals can utilise the external spaces and/or the gallery building.
Five bursaries of £3,000 will be awarded to develop and deliver the works which will form part of our public programme in 2019. The bursaries are inclusive of fees, materials and travel costs.
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The deadline for applications is midnight on 31 January 2019. For further information email swright@mkgallery.org.
OUTLANDS Ambassador (Voluntary)
OUTLANDS is a national experimental music touring network, championing the genre-resistant and bringing adventurous interdisciplinary music to the forefront. OUTLANDS developed out of a motivation to pool expertise and resources, to encourage diversity and accessibility, build local audiences, and to support engaging and ambitious interdisciplinary music productions across the country, and the organisations that strive to promote them.
The OUTLANDS network currently brings together visual arts and music organisations, independent venues and creative producers in eight regions, as the partners for its pilot phase. Network partners are commissioning and touring six new, interdisciplinary productions over two years between 2018 and 2019. A free interconnected participation programme offers new experiences to audiences through workshops, open rehearsals and Q&A’s to shine a light on the artistic processes within experimental music.
To support the 2019 programme, MK Gallery is looking for a local individual who is keen to be involved in the development and provision of experimental music and interdisciplinary touring arts. You will be given direct access to the experience and expertise of the network through regular meetings with partners and work closely with MK Gallery’s Curator of Public Programmes and Marketing Team to support audience development, the learning and participation programme and project evaluation.
We are looking for a committed individual with good communication and people skills to champion the aims of the network and support MK Gallery to grow audiences in Milton Keynes. A passion for new music would be advantageous.
If you are interested in this voluntary role, please contact Simon Wright on
swright@mkgallery.org by
5pm on
Friday 18 January.
Commitment to equality and diversity
MK Gallery aims to have a workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds and cultures and can provide the relevant knowledge, abilities and skills for the organisation.
Anyone who meets the requirements of this job is eligible for employment within MK Gallery irrespective of age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion, social class or other non-job-relevant personal characteristics.
We make every effort to eliminate discrimination, direct and indirect, from our recruitment and selection process. Where applicable, reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment and selection process as required to reduce any potential barriers faced by applicants and to give them equal access to employment opportunities. For an informal conversation about working at MK Gallery please contact Kate Chadwick at
kchadwick@mkgallery.org or on 01908 558321.
