About Us
Bloc Projects is a contemporary art space supporting the professional development of artists and delivering a programme of radical, ambitious, socially relevant and critically engaged art practices. Rooted in Sheffield and connected nationally, we are dedicated to platforming new and underrepresented perspectives.
We do this work collectively: with artists, East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) and wider diasporas, and communities working in care, education and the environment. We explore what matters now and what is at stake for the future.
Who we are
Bloc Projects was founded in 2002 by a group of artists at Bloc Studios and has been a part of the local, regional and national visual arts ecology for over 20 years. Approachable and experimental, we nurture art practices that show us new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
What we do
We lead and mobilise a resourceful network of people and places, offering the following:
A programme of ambitious and socially relevant exhibitions and events
Support of artists in the early to middle stages of their careers through meet-ups, practical workshops, residencies and mentorship
Gallery hires with optional curatorial guidance to people starting their own creative projects
Affordable ‘meanwhile-use’ spaces for individuals and groups to meet and work
Staff
Dr Yet Chor Sunshine Wong
Director
Dr Yet Chor Sunshine Wong (Sunshine) is an art worker, researcher and facilitator. She was an art teacher in Hong Kong where she was born and raised, and later moved to Berlin to complete her MA and curate live art events. Via affect and queer studies, her PhD proposed a socially negotiated art that takes place through the relational material. At Bloc Projects, she has been working on what it means to be a holistically collaborative and accessible art space. In the last few years, she has commissioned and co-developed projects by Una Helle Hamilton and Verity Birt; Chris Alton and Emily Simpson; and C & G Artpartment amongst others. She is also a keen knitter.
Thomas Griffiths
Gallery & Communities Manager
Thomas Griffiths is an artist based in Sheffield. Their practice reimagines and reinscribes commonplace objects and symbols with unexpected interpretations: nuances of working-class culture and queer references seep into the conversation. Alongside their artistic practice, they are co-director of GLOAM, an artist-led grassroots gallery and studio space in Sheffield. They particularly aim to uplift artists from working-class backgrounds and the north of England. At Bloc Projects, they lead on our meanwhile spaces, gallery hires and artist development through our Pathways programme and Membership.