Opportunities

Deveron Arts' Internships

There are currently no vacancies at the moment, however Deveron Arts regularly offer a 3 month internship in arts administration/event organisation. We also offer curatorial internships in our unique Shadow Curator methodology on a 6 months basis.  

Please keep checking for further notices. 

Deveron Arts' Volunteers

If you are interested to volunteer with Deveron Arts, please contact us. Experience is offered in all forms of events organisation and arts administration. Whether you have a regular slot in your diary or want to volunteer occasionally, let us know and we try to tailor opportunities that suit you. 

Current and Past Interns

Keno Canzler was a here during the summer of 2010. Keno comes from Berlin and hopes to study Economics in future. During his stay he undertook a myriad of administrative tasks, to include the rejigging of our facebook image bank and setting up the vegetable swp shop for the project Red Herring.

Ben Jones graduated from Sunderland University and was our first Shadow Curator Intern. During his stay from April - Sept 2010 he undertook the re-curation of our town collection which is now hung in over 40 places around Huntly. He also worked on the Hamish Fulton project, book and archive and the Red Herring project and blog.

Sarah Rumis graduated from Sunderland University and stayed with us from April - July 2010. During her time she helped with the accounts, took on our facebook correspondance and gave the archive an overhaul.

Niall Ferguson was accompanying David Sherry’s project Health and Safety Effects from Jan-Mar 2010. Niall is an IT wiz and what is even better, he loves cooking and baking. We had quickly made use of these skills, so that he was responsible for the website and our social networking activities, while the weekly banana cakes fueled the team meetings. Originally Niall studied Microbiology at Glasgow University, but with a keen interest in film and the music scene he is looking for more experience in the arts world.

Ting Fang Hsueh (Meigo) is from Taiwan, graduated from Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen, Scotland) on the Master of Design course. She worked alongside the Utopia Group (Deng Dafei and He Hai) on the James Legge project and assisted workshops, event organising, advertising and with the James Legge and Money Crunch project design from July-Dec 09.

Suzanne Tsang had just graduated from the internationally acclaimed Product Design course at the University of Dundee when. During her time as intern, Oct-Dec 09, she helped us update our website and brought us into the world of social networking. She has also set up the www.calabashbank.com website.

Lin Pan comes from Beijing. She is currently undertaking a phd on the great Huntly sinologist James Legge. While in Huntly in Aug-Sept 09, she has been giving Chinese Language and Cookery lessons. She has also built a new website: www.jameslegge.org. she was a tremendous source of knowledge on all Legge questions.

Stefanie Ford comes from Canada and is currently undertaking a Master in Fine Art in Ireland.
Over the summer 09 worked with us on the Palace of Puzzle project with the Utopia Group. She has also done some sterling work on the library archiving.

Ashley Branston just finished this summer at Dundee's Duncanston of Jordanston School of Art. Then straight to his home town Huntly to join our small but busy team with the SLOW DOWN preparations. He has now got a little job and helps us with the Capital Development of the Brander Flat where we are based.

Allen Breen originally from Paisley studied Environmental Art in Glasgow. He has been with us from April - June 09 and was assisting Jacqueline Donachie with her SLOW DOWN project. So far he has set up the www.huntlyslowdown.com website; edited a video of the Richard Demarco talk on Joseph Beuys and orchestrated a stall on the farmer's market interviewing people about their cycling habits and dreams. He now works for a design company.

Tonia Lu is from China and studied Museums Studies at Leicester University.
Tonia has been with us from Jan to May 09; during which time she has been helping around the marketing and design for the JONGA project with Senzeni Marasela. She also did a sterling work on the archive, which is now available for everybody to to use. She has also done sterling preparation work for the James Legge project with the Utopia group. Unfortunately (for us) Tonia left us prematurely as she got a curatorial position with Fife Contemporary Arts and Crafts in St Andrews. Good Luck Tonia and haste ye Back!

Kimberley Anderson comes from Belarette in Australia and studied Fine Art in Dundee. She came her from Oct 08 - Jan 09; during this time she brought the archive of Deveron Arts up to scratch. She also painted the new room (thanks Kim!) and discovered a number of archeological features referring to former residents and decorators of the premises. Since then Kim managed to get two great new residency opportunities as far apart as Australia and Rome.

Anna Insa Vermehren is from Kiel, Germany and studied History of Art at Glasgow University. She was an intern here from Sept - Dec 08; during this time she worked on our website and developed proposals for our new premises in the Brander. Since then Anna has moved to Huntly and now works for Deveron Arts as Project Manager.

Catrin Jeans is from Girvan and studied Illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee. Cat came here for a month after art school in August 2008. During this time she worked on a magazine entitled CAKE which explored the artistic boundaries of the concept 'outwith'. Since then Cat has undertaken a commission for Deveron Arts developing the 'Town Collection'. Catrin now is the Co-ordinator of the Hairst Festival.