structural change artist

Metal is looking for a Structural Change Artist to join Metal’s staff team for 3 years on a PAYE contract.

We’re looking for a Structural Change Artist as part of our long-term aim to inspire positive change through art and creativity. We want an artist to lead learning and reflection through artistic practice exploring how Metal can reimagine systems of power, knowledge and equity in our programmes, organisational development and the places we work.

The Structural Change Artist will work across Metal. The funding, from Paul Hamlyn Foundation, particularly supports deep work on our flagship programme The Unlonely City, itself an experiment in citizen-led decision-making and positive change.

The Unlonely City is an arts programme disrupting loneliness, nurturing moments of solidarity, surprise and laughter in Liverpool, Peterborough Southend. Through a series of artistic commissions, citizens assemblies, parties and public conversations, The Unlonely City will take place across Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend, where Metal is based, to imagine what an unlonely city could be.

The Structural Change Artist will lead learning and reflection on The Unlonely City as a critical friend through artistic practice with Metal staff, artists, trustees, partners and residents. This will feed and nurture our organisational and programme development.