Art for Tolworth: Co-creation artist commission for Tolworth Hospital – Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’

  • Contract
  • London

The Community Brain


Job Summary

The Community Brain, in partnership with South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, is inviting artists and creative practitioners to become part of a creative programme for the new Tolworth Hospital. This brief is for the Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’ opportunity.

Job Description

Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’
Core commission: £7,200
Location: Central Art Space / Programme-wide
Application: Expression of Interest

Alongside the individual artwork commissions, we want to create an opportunity to capture and creatively interpret the story of the programme as it develops.

We are therefore looking for an artist, collective or creative team to act as ‘The Narrator’ for Art for Tolworth.

The Narrator will work across the programme, developing relationships with the people involved and finding creative ways to gather, interpret and make visible the conversations, ideas, experiences, processes and making that emerge.

We are not looking simply for conventional project documentation. We want the process of observing, gathering, recording and interpreting Art for Tolworth to become creative work in its own right.

The final form is deliberately open. It might involve visual art, drawing, writing, photography, film, sound, illustration, publishing, objects, installation, digital work, participatory practice, archives, collected material or combinations of different approaches.

We are currently seeking Arts Council England funding to extend the Narrator commission beyond the core £7,200 commission. Following the Expression of Interest stage, we expect to shortlist a small number of applicants and invite them to an informal conversation.

Once the funding position is clear, we will either appoint one or more practitioners to deliver the commission within the total core commission of £7,200, or expand the scope and potentially invite shortlisted applicants to develop their proposals further, supported by a development fee. Final selection is anticipated by January 2027.

Please read the relevant brief and application guidance before submitting through the Google Form.

Job Requirements

Creating with and for people with lived experience, patients, staff, carers and the wider Kingston community is central to Art for Tolworth.

Participation and co-creation should be embedded within the development of commissioned work, with artists encouraged to create meaningful opportunities for people to contribute ideas, experiences, knowledge and creative responses as the work develops.

For Art for Tolworth, we understand:
– Co-production as working in partnership with people who use mental health services, carers and communities, involving lived experience from the early stages of development.
– Co-creation as bringing together people with different lived and professional experiences to participate meaningfully in the creative process.
– Co-design as developing aspects of the artwork and the engagement process collectively.
We are not looking for artists to arrive with a fixed artwork and use participation simply to validate an existing idea.

Job Overview

  • Job Title: Art for Tolworth: Co-creation artist commission for Tolworth Hospital – Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’
  • Salary: £15k-£20k
  • Hours:
    Full time
  • Artform: Visual arts
  • Role: Creative
  • Contract: Contract
  • Closing date: Sun, 01 Nov 2026

  • Location:

    London

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Job: Art for Tolworth: Co-creation artist commission for Tolworth Hospital – Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’

Job: Art for Tolworth: Co-creation artist commission for Tolworth Hospital – Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’

Organisation: The Community Brain

Postcode: KT6 7QU

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