Primary

Last weekend to apply!

* Collaborative Programme Curator
Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

https://www.weareprimary.org/news/job-opportunity-collaborative-programme-curator

Join our team

We are seeking to recruit a Collaborative Programme Curator to make an important contribution to our work and expand the range and depth of skills within our organisation.

This is a key role responsible for implementing Primary’s Collaborative Programme, continuing and developing new relationships with communities.

This role builds on a decade of programme at Primary that has embedded collaboration, socially just approaches and community-centred practice in the organisation’s work.

* Collaborative Programme Curator

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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Final weekend to apply!

* Deputy Director
Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

https://www.weareprimary.org/news/job-opportunity-deputy-director

Join our team

We are seeking a Deputy Director to play a key role in implementing Primary’s strategic direction and strengthening the organisation’s skills, knowledge, and capacity.

This is a pivotal role for someone with fundraising and financial expertise, and a genuine commitment to supporting the organisation’s future.

* Deputy Director

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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Just over a week left to apply 👀

We’re recruiting for two roles at Primary:

• Deputy Director
• Collaborative Programme Curator

🗓 Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

These roles will expand the range and depth of skills within our organisation, making an important contribution to our work.

Our mission is to sustain a thriving arts ecology in an unpredictable and inequitable world — by investing in artists and expanding access for more people to engage. Rooted in creativity and collaboration, we consistently champion artists’ development, create new ways of making art, and drive social impact in our neighbourhood and beyond.

🔗 Find out more + apply via our website https://www.weareprimary.org/

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Announcing… Studio A4: Raisa Kabir ✨

Primary opens our 2026 Studio A4 programme in our Grade II listed building with artist and weaver Raisa Kabir, the first resident of the year and continuing the work developed through our 2025 programme.

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We don’t talk about flexibility enough.

Studios are so often imagined as places for constant production — for objects, for presence, for output. But 'doing' can also be thinking and sometimes it’s okay for nothing to take form at all. Residencies should create possibilities, not enforce labour. As an organisation we ask how we can support someone when things don’t unfold as planned — when illness, shifting capacities or different rates and paces of working shape the process. How do we accept what we can't control in our creative processes?

Kabir spent 2–31 March 2026 with the studio absent of finished objects and it is only now in April that forms begin to emerge.

Raisa’s practice holds disability justice as a material and political commitment — working through interdependence, hybridity and a clear responsibility to the history of cloth and thread that alert us to how woven the implications of trade and movement are in shaping the worlds around us, especially what is left for us to pick up the pieces. Over the next few days on site, she will be transforming walking sticks into looms, creating 5‑metre textile works suspended from the gallery ceiling.

💭 This period for Raisa to think and now make leads into 'Q***r Texture', opening 24 April, 5 pm (Quiet Time), and continuing from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Join us as we gather for an evening shaped by q***r and disabled joy and graft.

The 'Studio A4' residency and commission is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation ().

Image Description: Portrait of artist Raisa Kabir standing beside a wooden weaving loom in a gallery setting. She faces the camera with a relaxed expression and wears a black top with a patterned floral jacket and a gold necklace. The background includes framed artworks on the wall and the structure of the loom visible to her right.

Image Credit: Angela Dennis.

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