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Creative Balance: Creative Commissions

We're commissioning four artists to create new work responding to our research themes, to be exhibited at the Creative Balance Wellbeing Festival taking place in June 2026 in Glasgow.

Fee: £1,000 plus up to £200 for materials Deadline: 11am, Monday 20 April 2026 Open to: Racialised artists living in Scotland

Work can be in any art form - visual, audio, material, written, or other.

Please confirm that you identify as racialised and live in Scotland

You must identify as racialised (We define racialised as people with Black African, North African, Caribbean, Asian, West Asian, Pacific Island, Indigenous and/or Latin American heritage who experience racism due to the colour of their skin, ethnicity, or heritage. Please do not apply if you identify as white, regardless of nationality or migration history.)
Please confirm that you identify as racialised and live in Scotland

Full name:

Email address:

Link to your portfolio or examples of previous work

Ethnicity/Race

Some examples may include: broad categories e.g. Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, more specific: Jamaican, Syrian, Vietnamese, Scottish Pakistani and so on. We encourage you to describe how you identify. You can write 'prefer not to say' if you wish.

Do you have any access needs?

This helps us support you throughout the process - whether that's adaptations for creating your work, assistance at the festival, or access requirements for any meetings. This might include things like BSL interpretation, captioning, physical access needs, or support related to chronic conditions, neurodivergence, or mental health. If you're unsure or would prefer to discuss this with us directly, just let us know.

500 words (max) on how you would respond to the prompt

The Prompt: Scotland's creative landscape reimagined: possibilities and transformation

We invite you to respond creatively to this prompt. Your work might explore experiences of wellbeing, envision new "by and for" spaces, imagine what community and support could look like, or take the prompt somewhere we haven't anticipated. We're looking for work that is hopeful and speaks to what could be.

What we're looking for:

Work in any art form: visual, audio, material, written, or other

If your work is performative, please consider submitting a video recording that can be played on loop at the exhibition

If your work is audio-based, we can provide headphones for visitors to listen with transcriptions

If you need to upload any information do so below. You can also upload audio and video responses to this application below.

If you prefer, or files exceed upload limit email materials to hello@creativebalance.scot we recommend using a link to a drive e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer etc. Accepted formats (PDF, JPG, PNG, MP3, MP4, etc.)