Chair of the Methodist Modern Art Collection Management Committee

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Flexible working

This is a Volunteer, Part Time vacancy that will close in a month at 12:00 GMT.

The Vacancy

Are you an experienced enthusiast for the value of art to Christian evangelism and discipleship?

Could you be the next volunteer Chair of the Management Committee for the Methodist Modern Art Collection?

The Chair provides strategic leadership to the Management Committee in promoting, developing and using the Collection to encourage people to have conversations about God in Christ in the contemporary world, and to offer material that can bring new dimensions to study, worship and spiritual life. Our volunteer Management Committee of curators, art historians and others passionate about art in worship and for mission are advocates for the Collection, support borrowers to conceive their exhibitions and interpret the art and advise on conservation and occasional acquisitions.

Time Commitment

This role ideally needs a commitment equivalent to ½ to 1 day per week but usually disaggregated and often in email correspondence or online meetings. This time may be coalesced into a more concentrated period around committee meetings and exhibitions and then need fewer hours per week otherwise. There are usually three or four committee meetings a year (with one usually in person), with electronic communication and working groups convened online as required in between. Occasional in-person meetings, representing the Management Committee and visits to support exhibitions of the Collection are expected as part of this role, for which all reasonable expenses are paid.

The Collection

There are almost 60 artworks by leading artists of the last 100 years in this very special collection: artists of Christian faith, other beliefs and none. The Collection is owned by the Methodist Church and illustrates most aspects of the Christian Gospel narrative. The Collection began in 1962 as a touring Collection. We continue to tour the artworks: last year notably to 3Generate, the Methodist Children & Youth Assembly at the NEC, Birmingham, and to five church and gallery venues for Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture, with reproductions in six further bars and cafes. The latest display opened in St Mary’s Church, Guildford, in March 2026. However, it will be a key role for the Chair to help the Management Committee and Connexional staff team to progress identifying and working with a partner organisation to establish a new home base for the Collection from which to tour and where artworks can be put on display between exhibitions elsewhere.

Find out more about the artworks and how they are managed and toured, including the brief for the new home, at: The Methodist Modern Art Collection - The Methodist Church

To arrange an informal conversation about this role, please contact: hr@methodistchurch.org.uk

Closing date: 20 April 2026 by 12 noon

Shortlisting date: 24 April 2026

Interview date: (in person): 1 May 2026

The Methodist Church

For further information about The Methodist Church please visit our website https://www.methodist.org.uk/about-us/the-methodist-church/.

Our Calling

The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

The Church exists to:

• Increase the awareness of God’s presence and celebrate God’s love (Worship).

• Help people to grow and learn as Christians, through mutual support and care (Learning and Caring).

• Be a good neighbour to people in need and to challenge injustice (Service).

• Make more followers of Jesus Christ (Evangelism).

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