SITE GALLERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Terra Summer Residency Fellow
Alison J Carr is interested in the performance of femininity, theatres as sites of display and what it means to be hyper-visible and invisible. But really, her work is about power and powerlessness.
Alison has been a Terra Summer Residency fellow in Giverny, France and LoBe Gallery resident in Berlin. She was awarded an Arts Council England ‘Grants for the Arts' award in 2017. In 2018 she became a Freelands Art Programme recipient through Site Gallery Sheffield, and a-n mentoring scheme recipient working with the curator, Lucy Day. In 2021 she was awarded ‘Developing Your Creative Practice' grant from ACE in round 9.
Seiko is a Japanese artist who creates sculptures and large installations for galleries and museums, often using traditional textile and craft techniques. She works on Public Arts which make connections with the heritage behind the site as well as the architectural spaces, and social aspects. She is interested in how slow and dying craft techniques have a space & future in our ever changing busy society and how those old traditional techniques can exist within the contemporary art arena.
Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and curator based at Bloc Studio, and researcher and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. He graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2007 and completed the Fine Art PhD at University of Lincoln in 2016, titled "A Body of Relations: Reconfiguring the Life Class". Ling has a socially-engaged and performance-based art practice.