In 2026, we will celebrate 75 years of the Southbank Centre. And at the heart of this celebration will be young people, their experiences and their voices.
Drawing on this moment, and our long term commitment to young people, particularly in Lambeth and Southwark, we’re launching a new Arts & Wellbeing programme for young people aged 11- 25 that supports mental health through free creative activity; a space to build community, learn new skills and explore and experience the joy of creativity. Supporting in delivering and shaping this programme will be our new Arts & Wellbeing Artist Advisory Collective.
What is the Arts & Wellbeing Artist Advisory Collective?
It’s a group of artist-practitioners that will come together to imagine how our new programme can create space for young people to thrive and experience the transformative power of creativity and the arts. And you can be a part of it. We’re looking for four UK-based artist-practitioners whose practice centres and responds to supporting young people and their mental health and wellbeing.
We recognise that young people from global majority backgrounds in London experience significant disparities in mental health care, marked by disproportionately high detention rates, more frequent emergency interventions, extended waiting times, and reduced access to culturally appropriate early intervention services compared to their white peers.
We acknowledge the need for creative health projects that challenge systemic racism, address health inequalities and respond to young people’s lived experiences of power, privilege and discrimination. This programme will embed an intersectional, anti-oppressive approach and align with disability-justice practices and perspectives, and we’re looking to work with artists whose practices are shaped and driven by these principles.
We’re committed to working with and supporting artists who have lived experience of mental health support systems and settings, and encourage applications from artists from the global majority, and artists who are representative of our communities in Lambeth and Southwark.
Key dates and artist fee
This is a paid role from June to November 2025.
Artists will be paid at a total fee of £4,500 to participate.
The Artist Advisory Collective will come together in-person several times between June and November 2025. Artists must be available to attend meetings at the Southbank Centre on the following dates, 10am – 5pm.
Thursday 26 June
Thursday 24 July
Thursday 21 August
Thursday 25 September
Thursday 9 October
Thursday 23 October
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 20 or 27 November
If you would like to join us in connecting artists, nurturing practice, and shaping creative health youth projects, please see the link for more information!
In 2026, we will celebrate 75 years of the Southbank Centre. And at the heart of this celebration will be young people, their experiences and their voices.
Drawing on this moment, and our long term commitment to young people, particularly in Lambeth and Southwark, we’re launching a new Arts & Wellbeing programme for young people aged 11- 25 that supports mental health through free creative activity; a space to build community, learn new skills and explore and experience the joy of creativity. Supporting in delivering and shaping this programme will be our new Arts & Wellbeing Artist Advisory Collective.
What is the Arts & Wellbeing Artist Advisory Collective?
It’s a group of artist-practitioners that will come together to imagine how our new programme can create space for young people to thrive and experience the transformative power of creativity and the arts. And you can be a part of it. We’re looking for four UK-based artist-practitioners whose practice centres and responds to supporting young people and their mental health and wellbeing.
We recognise that young people from global majority backgrounds in London experience significant disparities in mental health care, marked by disproportionately high detention rates, more frequent emergency interventions, extended waiting times, and reduced access to culturally appropriate early intervention services compared to their white peers.
We acknowledge the need for creative health projects that challenge systemic racism, address health inequalities and respond to young people’s lived experiences of power, privilege and discrimination. This programme will embed an intersectional, anti-oppressive approach and align with disability-justice practices and perspectives, and we’re looking to work with artists whose practices are shaped and driven by these principles.
We’re committed to working with and supporting artists who have lived experience of mental health support systems and settings, and encourage applications from artists from the global majority, and artists who are representative of our communities in Lambeth and Southwark.
Key dates and artist fee
This is a paid role from June to November 2025.
Artists will be paid at a total fee of £4,500 to participate.
The Artist Advisory Collective will come together in-person several times between June and November 2025. Artists must be available to attend meetings at the Southbank Centre on the following dates, 10am – 5pm.
Thursday 26 June
Thursday 24 July
Thursday 21 August
Thursday 25 September
Thursday 9 October
Thursday 23 October
Thursday 6 November
Thursday 20 or 27 November
If you would like to join us in connecting artists, nurturing practice, and shaping creative health youth projects, please see the link for more information!
