Background
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust is a charity that exists to enhance the wellbeing of all who spend time in NHS Grampian or associated Health and Social Care facilities by providing access to quality arts experiences. This includes holding a large Collection of artworks that are available for display across NHS Grampian venues.
Project Overview
Sustain:Engage is a project to support the development and promotion of best practice in art collections in healthcare settings. This includes updating documentation, improving accessibility, and engaging local and rural audiences through reinterpretation and rationalisation of the GHAT Collection.
Part of this work includes identifying and addressing gaps in representation within the Collection. We are commissioning new work by artists that better reflect the local population, to be accessioned into the Collection.
We are now inviting creative practitioners to submit proposals for a series of commissions. We are particularly interested in seeing applications from artists with personal or professional connections to the North East of Scotland, or who identify as having protected characteristics (as defined in the Equality Act 2010).
Brief
Work must be two-dimensional, wall-based, and either sealed/solid material, or framed and glazed with Perspex. The framing cost is to be included in the commission fee.
Successful candidates will be invited to visit the GHAT Collection and discuss their proposal with the team.
The commission cannot fund artworks which support or promote religious or political activity, or which depict violence, drug and alcohol use, or portraiture. The GHAT Collection team will support further conversation to shape work for active healthcare settings.
Please get in touch with the team if you have any questions.
Experience
To apply for this opportunity, you must:
- Be aged 18 years or over
- Be living or working in the North East of Scotland
- Be an artist/creative individual who shows talent and/or potential
- Evidence a desire to develop and an ability to reflect upon their practice and personal development
- Be able to create, develop and/or present a new piece of artistic work to the programme timetable
- Demonstrate an ability to profile their work and communicate their practice to an audience
Project Duration
Open call starts: 24.09.2025
Deadline: 27.10.2025 (midnight)
Responses from GHAT w/c 17.11.2025
Making period from 01.12.2025 to 02.03.2026
Documents
Brief (inc. information about fees and how to apply):
GHAT Sustain-Engage Micro-Commission 2025
Application form:
GHAT Sustain-Engage Micro-Commission Application Form 2025
Project contact
Collection Assistant & Engagement Curator – Jean Firth
01224 552429
This project has been funded by Creative Scotland.