Artist residency - "Scroll down"

The Details

Feeling Strong is an exciting Dundee-based charity with the ambition to improve the lives of young people living with mental health and wellbeing challenges by fostering the skills, confidence and aspirations they need to flourish. Our services are designed by young people, delivered by young people for the benefit of young people, and we believe that this youth-led/peer-led approach is our biggest asset in tackling issues around mental health and wellbeing. We support stable recovery journeys for young people, lead campaigns to tackle societal issues, develop quality resources based on our own research, and tackle the disparity they face in unemployment, underemployment and accessing opportunities like further and higher education.

In Feeling Strong, staff have encountered examples of how rapidly changing technology and internet culture or online misogyny are affecting youth mental health.

Our new project “Scroll Down” seeks to look into the question of “how are these rapidly changing technologies and the many influences in online culture affecting young people’s mental health?” With the collaboration of Women’s Aid and Cake or Dice community cafe, we’ll build young people’s knowledge on harmful technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Google’s impact on global warming, and harmful internet personalities or content online. Using workshops, discussions and creative outlets, we’ll raise awareness on the effects the internet and technology has on mental health while building young people’s critical thinking skills. The output of this project will be the creation of a youth led resource which will be distributed throughout Dundee to upskill other young people and guardians, a social media campaign and an end of project exhibition of the young people’s work. 

Location: Feeling Strong Hub, Block 5, 2 Seabraes Lane, Dundee, DD1 4NX

Deadline: Monday 13th October at 12:00pm

Contract duration: November 2025 - April 2026, 10 days (flexible)

Rate: £2,264 (10 x £226.40 per day)

Reporting to: Caitlyn Bannatyne, Campaigns & Content Coordinator

Your Commitment

The successful artist will have access to our art room in our Feeling Strong hub to create any creative medium in response to the themes surrounding the project, with materials being available to use and the ability to request certain materials within reason. Artists must provide a final piece at the end of the residency where it will be included in an end of project exhibition and photographed for our final resource. 

Candidates must be available:

• 4x Fridays November 2025

Workshops taking place on Fridays

Research & development

• 4x January/April 2026

Workshops taking on Fridays

Flexible time for final piece completion 

• 2x April 2026

Input in the final resource and the end of project exhibition, date TBC.

Applying

Please email your CV and a brief description (max 250 words) of what issues young people face with online culture and advancing technology and why you would like to take part in this residency to apply@feelingstrong.co.uk 

The successful applicant will be contacted by the end of October.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Caitlyn, our Campaign & Content Coordinator at: caitlyn.bannatyne@feelingstrong.co.uk

Further information

If you require that the information above be provided in an accessible or alternative format, or if you require other reasonable adjustments, please contact us at apply@feelingstrong.co.uk for further support.