How I Got My Job at Tate | Tate Collective

Watch four members of Tate staff share their experiences of working at a gallery and top career tips. From digital and design, to learning and marketing, explore various routes in to working in the creative sector.

[lizziecallaghan]

It's one of my dreams to work here one day, having been obsessed with museums/galleries/etc since I was able to understand what a museum was. I hope I'll get there one day :)

[_....J........................]

"basically, I did an internship (an unpaid job in London where cost of living is £20k p.a. to live in poverty)"

[Lyonessi]

Interviewer is a cutie. Thanks a lot for doing this Tate, always great to get an insight into the life of the people who work to keep things that bring people from around the world joy alive.

[richardw]

You have to be, like, painfully middle class to, like, get a, like, job on the Tate team.

[_....J........................]

"then when I wasn't working for free, I made my own work, I didn't have to go to the Jobcentre and get my benefits stopped"

[lizzyhannan]

If you are working class and don't live in London ... forget it. The powers that be in the art world regularly commission reports that come to the conclusion that the majority of work and opportunities in the arts are taken up by the middle and upper middle classes. They do a little bit of hand-wringing about it (to seem concerned). As long as they expect people to work for free they will only get those who are young and supported by well-off parents .. this totally excludes the working classes. The further up the ladder past degree you go the more expensive it gets to be an artist ... most working class people are totally excluded ... I personally think that these prestigious art institutions like it this way and know exactly what they are doing. Tate, I hope you are listening! But I doubt it ... and how about a Tate in the North East ???? Liverpool is not the North East and is quite a travel!

[junkheadrooster]

Oh man, when I used to study in uni, I always used to dream about working in Arnolfini or Tate Modern but was so terrified of approaching.

[_....J........................]

So you have to be rich. Who could've guessed.

[EagerInterlocutor]

Is this supposed to serve as an indictment? 😓

[welltailored]

Is a museum art?
Is a church holy?
Is a bakery delicious?
Is a hospital contagious?

Is a hospital ...?
Is a bakery ...?
Is a church ...?
Is a museum contagious?

[cliffdariff]

Seems everyone has to be younger than 30 these days to have a decent job...

[meskita]

How is it ok to not study art? Such hypocrisy. The people that study art, are artists and are not given opportunistic to expand their field. People that have no studies, get the carpet rolled out to them. Making work ready individuals should not be about turning people into poster boys and girls just so that you can get funded by Government. Get funding to make people skilled is good, but destroying people’s life’s because of equality is unfair and unsustainable.