Community Artist commission
Wigan Borough Council
Award
Amount not published
Deadline
Closes in 8 days (31 August 2026)
Where
Not stated
North west
Summary
Wigan Museum is seeking to appoint a freelance Community Artist (open to all art forms) to work alongside our staff to lead on delivering creative outreach workshops and a final art work by engaging diverse, underserved communities in the borough as part of its main gallery redesign for 2027 launch.
Full details
Helping create an art work as part of our main gallery redesign, aimed at creating a new heritage that better showcases Wigan's distinct personality, collections and stories and informed by co-creation and consultation. £6,000 commission fee (+VAT) A separate budget of £500 for resources and materials OUR REQUIREMENT Wigan Museum will have a new design approach that is centred on the borough's unique identity - what we are calling Our Northern Soul - and we will co-develop distinct personality trait themes that showcase what it is to be Wiganese with community partners. These personality traits will allow us to redefine for our main gallery exhibition the objects, stories and digital content from across the collections. You will reflect on these with groups during your engagement workshops; Traits; Rebellious, Innovate, Dreamer, Caring, Curious, Legendary, Passionate, Surprising. We aim to relaunch the Museum's main public exhibition for summer 2027 with different and surprising ways to celebrate the borough's heritage and showcase the everyday and the extraordinary. The outputs from this project will be installed in the central Our Northern Soul display in the main gallery to collectively represent these personality traits and showcase the diverse communities and heritage of the borough. The artworks can be in any medium. Wigan Museum has identified local community groups from the borough that we would like you to work with as part of this commission. You will work with 2-6 of these groups, to be agreed on exact number/who. Wigan Museum staff will support communication with these groups and assist you with organising sessions. You will be responsible for planning and delivery of session content. Duration: From September 2026 to June 2027 Wigan Museum is due to open to the public in summer 2027. Artworks will need to be ready for installation by April 2027.