Whitworth Curatorial Fellow at The Whitworth.

The Whitworth is seeking a Curatorial Fellow for an 18-month paid traineeship supported by the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship.

The programme aims to widen access to curatorial careers in the visual arts and support the professional development of an emerging curator.

The Whitworth particularly encourages applications from people from Global Majority backgrounds, who remain underrepresented in the UK cultural sector, alongside others from backgrounds underrepresented in museums and galleries.

Applicants based in Northern England with the right to work in the UK are eligible.

The Fellowship will focus on the Whitworth’s Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, the only significant collection of its kind held by a UK institution.

Comprising more than 1,200 works by over 120 artists, the collection includes work by artists who developed their practices outside formal art education and gallery structures, including neurodivergent and working-class artists.