Alchemy is partnering with an established and successful contemporary art gallery in London, which is seeking to appoint an Editorial Content Manager.
Responsibilities for the role include:
- Overseeing the creative process and writing/editing of content, utilised for press releases, previews, social media, and online exhibitions.
- Collaborating with artists, studios, liaisons, and Digital and Communications management at the gallery to achieve quality results.
- Creation and maintenance for artist biographies to populate artist pages and CVs on websites.
- Managing, conducting research, and preparing sales dossiers and preview materials for exhibitions and art fairs.
- Participating in writing applications for art fairs with the directors and artist liaisons.
- Creating content for handouts and wall vinyls for the gallery.
- Editing and proofreading all writing for the London location of the gallery.
- Managing the website and other digital communications' written content., as well as digital invitations and newsletters, creating or revising written text, and overseeing all digital mailings.
- Working on video material - communicating with the director, conducting Q&As and interviews with the artist, reviewing edits with the artist liaison, giving detailed feedback, and coordinating with the Head of Digital for London on the production brief, scheduling, and sign-off.
Requirements:
- Background in art history, ideally with in-depth understanding of contemporary art.
- Proven experience of working at a contemporary art institution or commercial gallery.
- Academic proficiency, such as writing offers for artwork dossiers.
- Outstanding English language ability, writing, and editing skills.
- Capacity to create readable texts for various gallery objectives, such as press releases, wall text, newsletter articles, and website entries.
- A keen sense of detail and solid proofreading abilities.