Community-engaged Artist

This is an exciting opportunity for a community-engaged artist, with lived experience of disability. The artist will work with a group of young women, with lived experience of disability, to make creative responses to the collection of Jean Stone MBE, to feature in an exhibition in Wycombe Arts Centre in March 2026.

This exhibition and associated programming is part of a wider programme of work exploring influential, pioneering women in the Paralympic Movement.

Objectives

• To explore the Jean Stone collection and other supporting material provided by NPHT

• To connect young women with the life of Jean Stone and her contribution to disability sport, through the delivery of creative workshops

• To connect a wider audience with the life of Jean Stone through your own creative outputs and those of the curation group you support

Outputs

• Your own creative response to the collection

• To deliver four-six workshops with young women at Wycombe Arts Centre, on Wednesdays 4th, 11th and 18th February 2026, resulting in a piece or collection of work representing your own and the group’s responses

• To work with NPHT to prepare this work for an exhibition at Wycombe Arts Centre in March and April 2026 (c. 4th March – 13th April)

• To deliver two workshops for the wider public during the exhibition run (1st or 8th April)

The project will create wider outputs, which the artist and group will be consulted upon:

• A learning resource for secondary schools

• Digital content, including vlogs, about the exhibition and Jean Stone’s life and collection