Open Call – Artist/Designer needed!
The Highlands Dream Bank is seeking a designer to create a pull-up banner introducing the project at exhibitions, community events, workshops and other public engagement activities.
The pull-up banner will be visually striking and introduce the Highlands Dream Bank to members of the public, encouraging curiosity, conversation and participation.
This artwork, or elements from it, will also be used for wider branding on publicity materials (e.g. flyers and social media).
Please submit a single PDF containing up to five images of previous work that best represent your design practice. The PDF may include brief captions or project titles to provide context for each image
Please do not create a design proposal for this commission at this stage. We are selecting a designer based on the quality, creativity and suitability of their existing work.
The selected designer will then be commissioned to work with the Highlands Dream Bank team to develop the final pull-up banner.
Payment: £300
Background
The Highlands Dream Bank is a new community project led by the Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective and UHI Inverness working in collaboration with SMHAF Highland and Creativity In Care. It will explore what people across the Highlands are dreaming about. It is a creative way to bring people together to share what psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas called ‘the unthought known’. Sharing dreams together can build connection, creativity and resilience. The Highlands' distinctive geography, climate, culture, and dispersed communities might also generate powerful emotional and symbolic landscapes.
Highlands Dream Bank will collect, collate, and analyse dreams submitted from across the region to identify patterns of underlying shared meaning. These patterns/themes will then be used by collaborating artists in creative works to capture and reflect back salient and recurring contents of dreams. The project will culminate in a public archive, exhibitions, community events, written outputs, and a research report informing health, education, and cultural sectors.
The Highlands Dream Bank is a new community project led by the Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective and UHI Inverness working in collaboration with SMHAF Highland and Creativity In Care. It will explore what people across the Highlands are dreaming about. It is a creative way to bring people together to share what psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas called ‘the unthought known’. Sharing dreams together can build connection, creativity and resilience. The Highlands' distinctive geography, climate, culture, and dispersed communities might also generate powerful emotional and symbolic landscapes.
Highlands Dream Bank will collect, collate, and analyse dreams submitted from across the region to identify patterns of underlying shared meaning. These patterns/themes will then be used by collaborating artists in creative works to capture and reflect back salient and recurring contents of dreams. The project will culminate in a public archive, exhibitions, community events, written outputs, and a research report informing health, education, and cultural sectors.
Deadline Sunday 25th October 2026
Please send submissions and any queries to: dreambank.highlands@uhi.ac.uk
The Highlands Dream Bank is part of a wider mental health collaboration involving SMHAF Highland, Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective, UHI Inverness and Creativity In Care, supported through the Highland Third Sector Interface Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund for Adults.