About Us
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 for the exploration of art practices, free and open to publics. Since 2023, we have also been offering meanwhile spaces for affordable studio and event hires. 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.
Sunshine Wong on left and Zoë Sawyer on right, 2023
Co-Director (Programme)
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).
Support & Freelance
Richard Bartle
Tim Eve
Chris Woodward
David Orme
Sean Williams
Anna Netri
Siân Williams
David Jones
Work placement & Volunteers
Cat Brierley
Rose Marshall
Kaylin Staller
Co-Director (Organisational)
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.
meanwhile space and membership facilitator
Thomas Griffiths
Thomas is a Sheffield based artist and curator, and a recent MFA graduate of Manchester School of Art.
Influenced by industrial artefacts and public/hidden spaces, their practice reimagines and reinscribes commonplace objects and symbols with unexpected interpretations.
They are a co-director and curator of GLOAM, an artist-led grassroots gallery and studio space in Sheffield that platforms emerging artists and supports their development locally and regionally.