Helium invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary Visual Artists who work across art-forms with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice with experience/interest in working with children and young people with long-term physical health conditions and additional needs, including disabilities, to join our Freelance Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
Artists will be contracted on a project to project, (e.g. seasonal programme work) freelance basis over the next two years, to deliver our Creative Health Programme in a variety of settings (hospital, community and online) associated with our Creative Health Hubs in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Kilkenny and surrounding counties which include; Clare, Mayo, Tipperary and Greater Dublin area and for our national online delivery.
We are open to all applicants but are particularly interested in applicants based within an hour’s travel to Galway City, Dublin North / Dublin South and Castlebar, Co. Mayo and those interested in delivering online workshops.
The role of Associate Artist is to deliver inspiring collaborative arts programmes which are responsive to the needs and vision of children and young people with long-term physical health conditions, additional needs, including disabilities. Artists should have a genuine interest in building supportive relationships and a working understanding of inclusive arts practice relevant to the needs of participants including a flexible approach to children and young people and how workshops are facilitated. Training, wellbeing supports and professional development opportunities will be provided on a continual basis to the freelance panel as part of our Artist Training and Development Programme.
Successful applicants will receive paid time to participate in both in-person and online induction training sessions which includes Artist shadowing opportunities throughout our Spring 2027 programme.
Key Details:
Application deadline: Monday 4 January 2027, 4pm..
Application support: Contact hr@helium.ie if you need any assistance.
Online interviews: Week beginning 18 January 2027.
In-person interactive workshops: Week beginning 25 January or 1 February 2027. Venues are to be confirmed, with Dublin and Limerick locations planned. Artists will be allocated to the location closest to their base.
Travel expenses: Covered in line with Helium’s expenses policy for candidates travelling more than one hour to attend an in-person workshop.
Outcome notification: Successful candidates will be notified during the week beginning 8 February 2027.
Please note: Applicants must be available to attend both the online interview and in-person workshop during the dates outlined above. If this may be an issue, please indicate this in your application.
Helium will endeavour to follow the schedule above, but dates may be subject to change.
How To Apply
Applications should be emailed to hr@helium.ie with Associate Artist Panel Application 2027 in the subject line.
Applicants are invited to submit a single pdf containing;
- CV outlining relevant experience (max 2 pages).
- A letter of motivation, outlining your reasons for applying, and addressing how your relevant experience meets the role specifications
- Three examples (photos/video/audio) of collaborative artwork with children, via images inserted into above PDF OR via the following links only e.g. to websites, google drive link. Please do not email examples of artwork separately or link to instagram posts. If emailing via google drive link ensure permissions are set to ‘view all with access to this link’.
Application closing date: Monday 4th of January 2026 at 16.00 / 4pm