MOSTYN: WE ARE RECRUITING
Learning and Engagement Curatorial Fellow
Would you like to work alongside our team at MOSTYN?
MOSTYN is seeking a Learning and Engagement Curatorial Fellow to work alongside the team. We are seeking someone with the experience and skills to bring cultural and societal issues to life through the arts, introducing as wide an audience as possible to the benefits and opportunities of contemporary art. The postholder will research and formulate plans for ambitious and experimental approaches to reaching new audiences and widening engagement with our communities. Download the full job description and application process here The closing date for applications is noon, Sunday 28 February 2021. Interviews are expected to take place w/c 8 March 2021.
https://www.mostyn.org/news/we-are-recruiting-learning-and-engagement-curatorial-fellow
WE ARE RECRUITING: Visitor Experience Team Supervisor
Would you like to work alongside our team at MOSTYN?
MOSTYN is seeking a Visitor Experience Team Supervisor to play a key role in ensuring MOSTYN’s visitors enjoy their visit in a safe and secure environment.
Download the full job description here
To apply, please send CV and brief covering letter to: steph@mostyn.org
Application deadline: 5pm on 31st August 2020Interviews will be held on: 3rd September 2020 and 7th September 2020
JOB VACANCY at MOSTYN: Curator of Visual Arts
Curator of Visual Arts at MOSTYN, Wales, UK
We are seeking an ambitious and talented individual to join the team and lead the curatorial programming at MOSTYN, Wales UK, working with Director, Alfredo Cramerotti, and the wider gallery team, to create a stimulating high-quality exhibition offer to our audiences and online community.
We require someone familiar with the functioning, both financially and content-wise, of the international contemporary art world and its connections, able to discuss and mediate complex themes and concepts in a clear and easily understandable way to local, national and international audiences.
A wide network of contacts, and a far-reaching approach and ambition is essential.
£30k pa (pro rata) £24k for 30 hours per week
Application deadline: 5pm Monday 27th May 2019
For job description and application details please visit
https://www.mostyn.org/news/job-vacancy-curator-visual-arts
Who needs the Guggenheim when you’ve got MOSTYN? Interview with MOSTYN Director, Alfredo Cramerotti on Museums Journal
Who needs the Guggenheim when you’ve got MOSTYN?
A recent article in The Guardian by former Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price argued that it made sense to develop a Guggenheim outpost in Wales.
After a recent visit to MOSTYN, a contemporary art gallery in Llandudno in north Wales, it seems to me that developing a Guggenheim in Wales makes no sense at all.
The idea for a Welsh Guggenheim came after Finland rejected plans for a Guggenheim in its capital Helsinki. Some of the concerns centred on the costs of developing and running the gallery. These worries could also apply to Wales.
Also, one of the locations suggested for a Guggenheim was Swansea, where the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery will reopen next year following a £6m redevelopment. The Guggenheim Foundation was not keen anyway so it seems the idea is dead in the water.
I went to MOSTYN to interview its Italian-born director Alfredo Cramerotti. Under his leadership, the gallery is combining an international exhibition programme with support for the contemporary art scene in Wales through initiatives such as the Artes Mundi visual arts exhibition and prize.
The gallery is also part of a £5m arts programme for under-25s funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
And Cramerotti hopes to address local concerns by using artists to interpret the history of the MOSTYN building, which started life in 1901 as a gallery for female artists then went through various other uses (a world war one drill hall and a piano showroom among them) before reopening as a gallery in 1979 following a campaign by a group that included the artist Kyffin Williams.
MOSTYN added an impressive extension by Ellis Williams Architects that opened in 2010. The gallery now gets about 80,000 visitors a year – and that’s in a town with 18,000 residents.
I came away from Llandudno thinking what Wales needs is another couple of MOSTYNS, not a Guggenheim.
MOSTYN: We are recruiting
MOSTYN, Llandudno is seeking applications for the posts of Commercial Manager, Programme Officer and Programme Co-ordinator, Young People.
Further details are available at http://www.mostyn.org/en/jobs
If you would like to apply for any of the positions, please send or email a CV and covering letter to: brian@mostyn.org
MOSTYN, 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, Conwy, LL30 1AB, UK.
Deadline for applications is: Monday 1st July 2013.
GROUNDBREAKING ARTS AWARD FOR MOSTYN
MOSTYN in Llandudno has been selected, along with four other UK art galleries, to receive major funding to initiate a far reaching and ambitious programme for young people in North Wales. This welcome funding will allow the gallery to develop a sustainable plan to engage with and involve young people across the region over the next four years.
The award, announced last week at Tate Modern in London, is part of a £5m national arts programme for the under 25s entitled ‘Circuit’- funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and will be rolled out through selected galleries in the ‘Plus Tate’ network. Circuit aims to reach 80,000 young people aged 15-25, over four years. It will provide opportunities for young people, particularly those with least access to the arts – such as those living in rural areas – to participate and shape their own cultural experiences.
At MOSTYN the programme will enable young people to actively design, develop and deliver a range of innovative projects, using the arts as a catalyst for their own learning and that of their peers. These projects will encourage participation, develop excellence and build confidence in young people from a wide range of social, economic and cultural backgrounds.
Made up of four strands, the programme will include:
- Peer-led programme for young people;
- Sustained work with local youth organisations;
- Online and digital engagement;
- Young people’s arts festival in North Wales
Director of MOSTYN, Alfredo Cramerotti, said:
“I’m really excited about the prospect of bringing young people closer to the possibilities of contemporary art. Our goal is to open up many debates on contemporary life, and art is a fantastic channel through which to do this, especially with younger generations. The place of contemporary art is to help make sense of everyday life so full marks to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Tate for providing this opportunity.”
The award builds upon existing work done at MOSTYN with the MOSTYN Ninjas – an art programme for young people aged 11-13, and funded by Plus Tate. The group meets on a regular basis to plan activities and arrange exciting events for other young people inspired by the exhibitions at MOSTYN.
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “Cultural organisations play a vital role in encouraging young people to use their imaginations and to express themselves. We can achieve much more working collectively than we can in isolation. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has made an extraordinary gesture by giving £5M to support this national network of galleries and young people. Circuit will spark a long-term transformation in the way young people engage with art.”
Jane Hamlyn, Chair of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, said: “As part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s 25th anniversary, we are making some significant gifts to organisations we know well, and that we know are able to deliver impact through the work that they do. We are delighted to be supporting Circuit, as a national youth initiative, working through a group of fantastic organisations including Tate, with high ambitions for reaching and opening up the arts to so many young people in the UK.”
Six organisations are involved in Circuit. Alongside Tate are five national partners selected from the Plus Tate network: firstsite, Colchester; MOSTYN, Llandudno North Wales; Nottingham Contemporary; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; and Wysing Arts Centre in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridgeshire. All four Tate galleries will be involved: Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives (working closely with Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange).
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