Supporting early-career creatives in the visual arts
Creatives commissioned
180+
Commissions paid
£20,000+
Collections ft. our projects
25+
No Jobs in the Arts equips early-career creatives with skills, opportunities, and a platform to champion their voices. They support early-career creatives in the visual arts through projects, services, and representation.
The team programmes disruptive creative projects from the Midlands, creating levelling up opportunities for early-career creatives, namely emerging artists and curators at the start of their careers. Projects aim to highlight unheard voices and environmental issues.
The types of projects No Jobs in the Arts deliver include events, workshops, educational activities, exhibitions, and publications – always delivered by, for, or with early-career creatives. Publications by No Jobs in the Arts can be found in archives and collections, such as the Tate and Wellcome.
In addition to publications, past projects commissioned by No Jobs in the Arts include ‘Disabled people are nature’, by Henry Doe – an artwork debunking the villainy of using plastic straws – and, ‘In Conversation‘. A voice note interview series, curated by Priya Chorpa, sharing experiences of inclusivity, accessibility, and self-empowerment in the arts by people of colour.
The services offered by No Jobs in the Arts aim to support artist development in the creative sector across the UK. The team work nomadically, and specialise in working with early-career creatives, collaborating online and in-person, with creative spaces, places, and people. Get in touch with them here.
In addition to advocating for the representation of early-career creative work in the public realm and collections, No Jobs in the Arts are committed to establishing a commercial online space to represent emergent commercial practices in the region.
Anyone can support No Jobs in the Arts by making a donation, signing up to their mailing list, and following them on Instagram, @nojobsinthearts
Image: Fringe of Failure, 2022.
Photographed by Joe Westley.