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WORK Records: call for animation artists, Animate Projects

  •  East Midlands
  •  £15k-20k
  •  Part time
  •  Closes April 22, 2025
  •  Gary Thomas
  •  workrecords@animateprojects.org
  • #Visual arts

Description

Job Summary

Animate Projects seeks three animators to work with us to deliver WORK Records, an ambitious creative heritage project exploring three heritage collections across the East Midlands.

Job Description

WORK Records sets out to explore ideas and the realities of historic working lives, with a particular focus on three 'family firms', as represented in the collections of our heritage partners collections and elsewhere.

Three 'investigative teams' - curators, historians, existing and former workers, and artist facilitators - will explore each particular historic collection, identifying records and objects, and seeing where they lead us, and to who, and what stories they can tell, about working lives.

Three short, animated films will articulate this new knowledge and understanding, telling previously hidden and untold stories of working lives, and will be the catalyst and inspiration for an extensive public engagement programme, including screenings & discussions, workshops, a 'staff newspaper' publication, and the core of an online resource.

Our heritage collection partners are Derbyshire Records Office, Corby Heritage Centre, and John Smedley Archive. Whilst the collections are distinctive, they are geographically and culturally connected as part of the East Midlands, and, more specifically, we will focus on holdings relating to family firms: Smedley (Lea Mills), Robinson and Sons (Bolsover) and Stuart and Lloyds (Corby). Alongside the archive collections, we are working with arts organisations Junction Arts in Chesterfield and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in Northamptonshire, the history team at the University of Derby, and Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.

A total fee of £18,000 for each artist, with an estimated breakdown as:

  • Facilitation, research, pre-production, public engagement:
    £5,000 (25 days @ £200)
  • Film production fee : £10,000 (50 days @ £200)
  • Production materials, post-production, insurance: £3,000

https://animateprojects.org/workrecordsbackground/ - Follow this link for more background information.

WORK Records is made possible with Heritage Fund support thanks to National Lottery players. The project is also supported by Arts Council England.

Job Requirements

Please read the full brief before applying. The people we are looking for will have:

  • Established professional animation practice
  • An excellent track record in delivering independent and/or commissioned animation projects, on time, and within budget.
  • Experience of working to engage diverse communities in a contemporary heritage and/or visual arts/museum context.
  • A passion for social history.

Job Responsibilities

Please read the full brief before applying. The people we are looking for will:

  • Contribute to the development and delivery of WORK Records.
  • Participate in and contribute to the WORK Records project community - meet ups, public events, thoughts, ideas, etc.
  • Lead, with support from the WORK Records Project Manager, and in collaboration with the WORK Records Heritage and Engagement partners, the investigative team for one of the heritage collections.
  • Develop and produce a short, animated film, in close collaboration with the project community, Project Historian, and with production and editorial support and input from Animate Projects
  • Contribute to development and delivery of the public engagement programme.

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How to Apply

Please read the full brief on our website.
Submissions are through CuratorSpace.

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