Artist Callout: University of Exeter Creative Fellowship 2025/2026
The Creative Fellowship is a 4-5 week exploratory placement, working in an interdisciplinary context and is open to creative practitioners of any artform. Total budget: £6,000.
Job Description
Arts and Culture University of Exeter is inviting applications from creative practitioners for a Creative Fellowship running during this academic year (ending July 2026). The Creative Fellowship will be a 4-5 week exploratory placement, working in an interdisciplinary context.
The Creative Fellowship is open to practitioners of any artform, including visual, digital, sound and performing arts, craft, design, film, literature and music.
This year's Creative Fellow will be working with the Gender and Sexuality Collective to reimagine the possibilities for sexuality and gender research and teaching across the University of Exeter.
The total budget for the Creative Fellowship is £6,000 (inclusive of VAT) on a freelance basis, to include practitioner's fee, travel and accommodation, production costs and documentation.
Job Requirements
Rather than being a residency, the opportunity is described as a placement. The creative practitioner will be a peer, opening up new approaches and conversations with the University host while developing and enriching their own creative practice.
This scheme encourages mutually beneficial exchange, where both the host and the creative practitioner gain new insights and potential ways of working.
Creative Fellowship Aims
* Connect individuals and disciplinary perspectives within the University through creative engagement and outputs.
* Advocate for artistic processes and creative methodologies within the context of a research intensive university.
* Work with interdisciplinary groups that span a broad range of methodologies and perspectives.
* Document processes and ways of working using creative practice.
* Develop a tangible outcome that communicates the process of the Creative Fellowship.
Job Responsibilities
The Creative Fellowships are designed to benefit both the Creative Fellow and the host, providing inspiration for new approaches to creative practice and generating fledgling ideas that could be the springboard for future initiatives.
The Creative Fellow will be introduced to key contacts working on a specific area of research. They will be supported to work alongside this research community, producing creative outputs that investigate and interrogate the processes and practices of research undertaken at Exeter, using creative skills and supporting the aims of the University.
On a practical level, this may involve attending informal department meetings, working with students and audiences, building 1-1 relationships with particular researchers and exploring novel perspectives on the activities that support the University's work.
About Arts and Culture, University of Exeter
Our work spans the University of Exeter’s four campuses and the surrounding communities in Devon and Cornwall. We work with the University’s community of staff and students, as well as creative practitioners, and South West cultural organisations to help strengthen creative networks, raise the profile of creativity at the University and foster interdisciplinary collaborations.
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