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Bloc Projects
(https://www.blocprojects.co.uk/) Gallery address: Bloc Projects, 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB Postal address: 4 Sylvester Street, Sheffield S1 4RN
Established in 2002, Bloc Projects is a contemporary arts organisation in the centre of Sheffield. We are committed to the continued learning of early to mid-career artists, which is evidenced in our unique artist development commissioning process. Our aim is to present extraordinary worlds that are rooted in the
broader socio-political landscape.
Our organisation provides a gallery and two meanwhile spaces for the exploration of art practices, free and open to publics. We work closely with peers at local art organisations, universities and charities to ensure that our activities are welcoming to diverse groups across generations.
With different opportunities and ways to engage with artistic experimentation, our programme carefully attends to accessibility, participation and cross-disciplinarity.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Sunshine Wong
Sunshine is an artworker and researcher. She completed her doctoral thesis on social practice in 2019 and her current practice is situated in infrastructures, critical care approaches, and co-vulnerabilities in urgent times. She irregularly convenes TL;DR, a slow reading group that questions how contemporary art makes a place for itself in public life. At Bloc Projects, she developed the online platform Harsh Light as well as programmes with artists including JJ Chan, Eelyn Lee, Kedisha Coakley, Una Hamilton Helle & Verity Birt.
They are on the Board of Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance (ROAR).
Zoë Sawyer
Zoë is a curator and creative practitioner working between the West Midlands and Yorkshire. She has over 15 years curatorial experience working within, and helping to collectively build small and larger-scale organisations such as Project Space Leeds and The Tetley (2007-2017), alongside independent projects. She most recently worked as Offsite Curator at Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2018-2023), where she developed and curated programmes and projects beyond the gallery, with communities and artists including Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Rajni Perera, Sarah Taylor Silverwood and Susan Philipsz.
They are on the advisory group of East Leeds Project and on the Board of Directors of Corridor 8 critical writing platform.
About C & G Artpartment:
https://www.candg-artpartment.com
71 Holme Lane, Sheffield, S64JP
C & G (Clara CHEUNG & Gum CHENG Yee Man) founded the art space: C & G Artpartment in Hong Kong in 2007. From 2007-2021, C & G Artpartment curated more than 100 art exhibitions in response to social and current issues. Their essential goal is to become an art space for idea exchanges, and for artists to defend and celebrate the value of freedom of expression via exercising it with the language of the arts. The activities they organise are often collective and participatory. C & G were invited to participate in Shanghai Biennale(2018) and Singapore Biennale(2019) etc.
On June 30th, 2020, the People’s Republic of China imposed the National Security Law onto Hong Kong and, thereafter, started a massive political persecution that further destroyed freedom of speech and the civic society in Hong Kong. In August 2021, C & G Artpartment had to relocate to the UK. In the past 2 years, C & G have continued their critical art practice. In 2024, they re-open C & G Artpartment art space in Hillsborough, Sheffield to facilitate artistic exchanges between the UK and East and Southeast Asian countries, while engaging in the ongoing dialogue of decoloniality that goes beyond Hong Kong.
