Work with Us
Internships and Work Placements
At HTTP Gallery, near Finsbury Park in north London, we share workspace with our friends Furtherfield. HTTP is a welcoming creative space, with a gallery, offices, facilities for artist residencies, and a stimulating events programme taking place throughout the year. Our organisations have much in common in terms of artistic focus, and we've now joined forces to create a rolling internship/work placement scheme.
We want to those entering the arts and creative industries to have a really stimulating, richly varied experience, and to take advantage of learning opportunities across art form areas, skill bases and organisations. We can offer access to contacts across the arts, wider sector, references, and - to the right people – future opportunities to continue working with us.
Both ourselves and Furtherfield have supported interns successfully on many previous occasions. A recent example is Anna Clark, who, since her work placement with Solar Associates, has worked alongside Damien Hirst for the White Cube Gallery in Hoxton. The first learner we accepted onto the scheme, Aaron Peake, endorses the opportunity:
We want to those entering the arts and creative industries to have a really stimulating, richly varied experience, and to take advantage of learning opportunities across art form areas, skill bases and organisations. We can offer access to contacts across the arts, wider sector, references, and - to the right people – future opportunities to continue working with us.
Both ourselves and Furtherfield have supported interns successfully on many previous occasions. A recent example is Anna Clark, who, since her work placement with Solar Associates, has worked alongside Damien Hirst for the White Cube Gallery in Hoxton. The first learner we accepted onto the scheme, Aaron Peake, endorses the opportunity:
"My internship with Solar Associates and Furtherfield has been both rewarding and inspiring. I would eagerly recommend to any student about to begin an internship in the arts industries that they take up the opportunity of working with these two organisations, which are both thoroughly professional and conscious of the intern’s requirements. "
Some examples of what you might get involved in as a Solar/Furtherfield intern are: marketing; organisational development; project management; exhibitions and events; fundraising; evaluation; and tour booking. So, if this sounds good to you, and if you're:
Some examples of what you might get involved in as a Solar/Furtherfield intern are: marketing; organisational development; project management; exhibitions and events; fundraising; evaluation; and tour booking. So, if this sounds good to you, and if you're:
- fluent in English, with good communication skills including reasonable typing ability;
- able to multi-task and thrive in a fast-changing environment;
- able to work in teams and independently, sometimes away from the office;
- familiar with the internet and comfortable learning new software applications;
- able to think critically;
- hungry to work and learn.
- then contact us and we'll invite you over to talk through what we can offer and how a placement might work.