Freelance Heritage Museum Exhibition Designer - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - Creative Youth

Description

ROLE:
Freelance Exhibition Designer or Pop-up Display Designer


TIMESCALE:
April February 2024


LOCATION:
Kingston Upon Thames


METHOD OF WORKING:
Remote, but sessions of in person training and meeting attendance required


DEADLINE TO APPLY:
9am 11th April 2023


INTERVIEWS:
w/c 16th April


STARTING DATE:
end April 2023


FEE:
£7500 total fee (plus VAT), supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

There is additional budget available for the build of displays, pop-ups and showcases.

There may be additional budget for extra training of young people and volunteers involved in the project if a proposal is made which can be led by the Museum Designer.

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ABOUT CREATIVE YOUTH:
Creative Youth is a charity based in Kingston, London.

As the name implies, it was born out of an ambition to encourage and celebrate the creativity of young people - which we define as ages 5 to 26.

Creative Youth is currently at an exciting period of transition of growth, as we look towards opening our new creative space - currently known as FUSEBOX - in March 2023.

We are currently developing five areas of creative activity within the charity:
1) FUSE International - an annual arts festival formerly known as International Youth Arts Festival. FUSE International takes place in venues including Rose Theatre, Market Square, Kingston University, Kingston College and much more.

2) Creative Talent Programme - providing year-round support to emerging young artists entering into the creative industries.

3) Young People Skills Development Programme - a year-round programme focused on developing young people's experience within the arts, including work experience, internships and volunteering.

4) Creative Youth Connects - local and community projects, including all work with schools and youth groups. This is where the AMP Kingston project sits.

5) FUSEBOX - we are opening a new creative and community space on Kingston's riverside in the March 2023.


ABOUT AMP KINGSTON:
With young people, this project is an exploration of Kingston's music heritage from the 1960s - 1990s. This heritage will be identified, recorded and accessed in a range of interactive, sustainable ways.

Through uncovering this heritage, AMP not only explores some of the most iconic musical acts of the late twentieth century, but celebrates pop fashion, costumes, album artwork, band posters and more.

Three themes have been identified:

• Art the rise of artwork in branding and logos for music artists.
• Music the musicians and artists themselves but also the promoters who

enabled their performances to be seen

• Pop Fashion the influence of pop fashion in relation to the creation of

musical personas and identities.

These will be presented and recorded through a series of exhibitions, pop-ups, young person-led creative interpretation and programming.

The form of these will be decided and shaped by the young people involved but could include gigs, fashion shows, exhibitions etc.

We will build an online resource where the heritage can be housed digitally, a submission to local archives and an online toolkit for young people to use to interpret the heritage.

Led by Creative Youth, but delivered in partnership with the AMP youth board for the project; known as the Heritage Collective


Other key partners include:

Kingston Musuem, Kingston History Centre, Kingston University, Kingston College, Anstee Bridge, Achieving for Children (Piper Active Youth Club) and The Community Brain.

FREELANCE BRIEF:

The successful consultant will be willing to listen, train and work collaboratively with the Heritage Youth Collective and AMP team.

Taking on the young people's ideas and working with the AMP team to deliver creative responses to the AMP research and oral history interviews.

They will take the content and research considering new ways to present and share research to encourage engagement with the public.

The consultant may come from different have had previous experience in festival pop-up displays, Museum exhibitions or touring pop-ups.


Key deliverables:

• Work with the AMP team and Heritage Collective to support a refresh or to add in additional display elements to the recent Kingston Museum Bowie exhibition which is opening on 30th March. The design work for this will be carried out between April and July 2023. The display will close mid September 202
• To train the AMP team and Heritage Collective current exhibition and display techniques in creating small scale displays. Support the design and development of a panel celebrating the AMP project in FUSEBOX.
• Support the design and development of a unique popup display or showcase of the research and artist interventions at the July FUSE International Festival at Kingston.
• Work with the team to design and print the panels for a touring popup exhibition to tout at local venues between end of November 2023 to end of February 202
• Have an awareness of website design kno