Poster Artist

Creative Scotland; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A cultural festival organization is seeking a freelance Poster Artist for 2026 to design attractive festival artwork for the Beltane Fire Festival and Samhuinn Fire Festival. Responsibilities include creating posters, flyers, and festival programs, while ensuring consistency in design across materials. Interested artists can submit a portfolio or final designs by January 16, 2026. Proposed fees amount to £1350 for the completed projects, with strict deadlines for submissions.

Qualifications

• Ability to create visually appealing festival artwork.
• Experience in designing promotional materials.
• Good time management for adhering to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Design festival artwork for promotional use.
• Collaborate with BFS Coordinators on layout.
• Ensure a coherent style and color scheme in designs.

Job description

Artists are asked to submit their beautiful artwork for the chance to feature in the festival’s promotional material and become the society’s Poster Artist for 2026.

Artists are asked to submit their beautiful artwork for the chance to feature in the festival’s promotional material and become the society’s Poster Artist for this year’s festivals.

Poster Artist Role

The Poster Artist will design exciting and attention grabbing festival artwork (posters, flyers, programmes) for the Beltane Fire Festival and Samhuinn Fire Festival.

The chosen artist will be tasked with designing all promotional material in the run up to Beltane Fire Festival (30th April) and later the Samhuinn Fire Festival (31st October), which will be featured in our online promotion, press advertising and possibly print distribution for the event(s).

Artwork Required

There are two ways to apply. You can submit a selection of your artwork as a portfolio to give an impression of your artistic style, with a thumbnail sketch for a poster design, so that we can see your ideas. Or you can submit a final poster design for Beltane Fire Festival 2026. Both are welcome, and a selection committee will decide on the final artist in residence for this year’s festivals, but please beware of the Print Deadlines below.

For each festival, you will be expected to create a main design for the poster and flyer in portrait format, using a coherent style and colour scheme to keep a uniform look. You will work with BFS Coordinators to help with the design and layout of the festival programme which will be a downloadable digital PDF for festival attendees of 10‑15 pages. Copy will be provided for you close to the festival day and this can be a tight turnaround so please factor time for this towards the festival days.

Application closing date: by midday on Friday the 16th January 2026 at 12:00 midday.

Design Deadlines

• The final poster design for Beltane is expected to be submitted by Friday 20th February 2026
• The final poster design for Samhuinn is expected to be submitted by Friday 5th August 2026

Fees - This is a freelance opportunity with a proposed fee of £1350 (£550 per completed design package, one for each festival and £125 per festival for the creation of supporting media including the programme).

Location: All Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, International

The deadline is Friday 16 January 2026 at 12:00.

TAGGED: Audience Development / Digital Technology and Games / Festivals / Gaelic / Traditional Arts / Visual Arts / Literature and Publishing