Laura Clarke & Zoë Sawyer
Wednesday 29 May, 6 – 8pm
Salon 19
Curatorial Insights 2/3
Free & open to all
With the support of Making Ways, the Spring/Summer term will also feature a trio of Curatorial Insights sessions. As an ongoing commitment to organisational transparency and the creation of inclusive spaces for shared learning throughout our public programme the Curatorial Insights sessions will profile curatorial thinking, attempting to offer an urgent demystification of the role and capacity of curators within the broader arts ecology.
Session two will feature the work and experience of Laura Clarke, the curator at S1 Artspace here in Sheffield alongside a guest regional curator. Laura has invited Zoë Sawyer, Offsite Curator at Eastside Projects an arts organisation based in Birmingham.
Laura Clarke
Laura Clarke is Curator at S1 Artspace, Sheffield. She is interested the ways in which organisations can provide supportive infrastructures for artists’ practices outside of the exhibition format, how long-term or collaborative projects can be sustained and how to make visible the affective and social labour of artists and art workers. She was previously Assistant Curator at Hayward Gallery, the Barbican Centre and Nottingham Contemporary. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012 with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art, having originally studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent (2005-2008).
Zoë Sawyer
Zoë Sawyer is currently the Offsite Curator at Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her role is develop their public programmes such as Park Life in Banbury. Alongside working on commissions, solo and large-scale group exhibitions, with prominent artists such as Rehana Zaman, Lubaina Himid, and Simeon Barclay, Zoë has over ten years’ experience of working within both small and large-scale organisations. Most recently as Curator at Project Space Leeds and The Tetley (Leeds), throughout its transition into a nationally recognised Arts Council England NPO. Independently, she initiated theartmarket & Kunstfreund gallery (Leeds, 2006-2012) and is co-founder and director of practitioner-led collective Mexico, who have produced projects at Focal Point Gallery (2015), The Harris Museum (2015), Eastside Projects (2014) and Two Queens (2013).
This event has been generously supported by Making Ways.