Volunteers are core to the achievements and ambition of Collective. Their creative and practical support make the Collective what it is today.
Volunteers have supported artists projects, initiated and organised their own events and contributed to the development of Collective
Volunteer Opportunities:
1. Six month Projects Assistant placement - available in September 2010.
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2. Ad hoc opportunities to play a vital role in events, projects, installation and previews.
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Thank you to all past volunteers.
Volunteer partners have included: Training for Work, New Deal, Evoc, Project Scotland, The Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund and The Wave of Friendship.
Voluntary Projects Assistant,
September 09 - March 2010
Jasmin Bray-Triance
My 6 months at the Collective gallery have helped me realise the plethora of ways to approach becoming an arts facilitator and practicing visual artist. Needless to say that when I graduated from Art School in Aberdeen I was unsure of my strength as a self-employed artist, or where my degree might take me. I wasn’t really sure what I had to offer the world which I realised now is something that takes time to realise. What I do know because of volunteering at the collective gallery, is I like to work with larger groups of people or a network and to have the responsibility to create or be involved with large events/artwork. These situations are where I feel a need to be at my most creative and therefore most happy, because of the many elements that come into the organising of event, never mind the event its self, which evolves within this process. I first learned this when I began contacting new artist initiatives to take part in the New Work Scotland 2009 - Artist’s Soap Box event. I enjoyed my active role in this, gathering the initiatives together for a programme of talks, combing the land so to speak, for the newest and most interesting artists initiatives in the whole of Scotland, promoting the event before scheduling them in for an eventually very busy night at the gallery, which I felt pride in being part of making it happen.
I think it is this kind of experience that has motivated me to run a day workshop at the Collective on the 21st of March. Within my time at art school, some of my most successful projects involved the running of workshops, so it seemed daft not to take the opportunity to hold on during my time here as a volunteer, as it was offered to me .The workshop is in keeping with the theme of the current exhibition ‘Documentalist’ and is aimed at children, encouraging them to make newspaper headlines up.
Voluntary Projects Assistant,
September 09 - March 2010
Lindsay Boyd
During my 6-months at Collective I have been involved in the daily running of the gallery, as well the organising and co-ordination of the gallery’s exhibitions, projects and events. This training has allowed me to fill in any gaps in my existing experience, as well as to gain a greater understanding of the type of planning and amount of organisation that is involved in offering these types of events.
During my internship I have also been involved with Tessa Lynch’s residency at Ratho climbing arena, and the weekly collaborative workshops leading up to the resulting performance on the 11th of April. This has been a very enjoyable and inspiring project for me to have been involved in, and has allowed me to meet and gain insight in to the work of many other creative people working within different areas in the arts.
To conclude my internship at the Collective I will shortly be embarking on an internship exchange to Chisenhale Gallery in London, where I will be assisting with the installation of their new exhibition, this serves as yet another unforeseen perk which has come from being involved in the intern programme at the Collective.
