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<\/a><\/p>\nSiobhan Wall has worked as a senior lecturer, a writer, curator, and artist. Her writing on photography has appeared in Eyemazing magazine and she has written seven books about tranquil places in busy cities, including Quiet New York<\/em>, Quiet Amsterdam<\/em>,\u00a0Quiet Paris<\/em>, Quiet Barcelona<\/em> and Quiet London<\/em>. She has BA degrees from Cambridge University (English Literature) and Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design (Fine Art and Critical Studies). Siobhan obtained her MA (Distinction) in Visual Culture at Middlesex University and she has\u00a0a PGCE in Secondary Education from the Institute of Education, London.<\/p>\n For over a decade she was a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University, teaching video documentary, cultural studies and photography. She taught with Professor Shelley Sacks on the\u00a0 Fine Art\u00a0 BA at Oxford Brookes University. Above all, however, she enjoyed teaching on the MA in Museums and Contemporary Curating at the University of the Creative Arts, Epsom.<\/p>\n Aware of post-colonial debates, she has curated exhibitions of work by Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, as well as\u00a0Capturing Paradise: Western and Non-Western Art Influenced by Islamic Culture<\/em> in Essex. She sees awareness-raising as an important part of her art practice and curated Precious, <\/em>a joint show with etchings by Dame Paula Rego in Cambridge to raise much needed funds for Womankind Worldwide.<\/p>\n Using her politically informed practice she became the artist in residence with The Clean Clothes Campaign, where she curated\u00a0The Clothes She Wears;<\/em>\u00a0a collection of clothes worn by eight women working in the garment industry. Stories from women in Romania, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Mexico and four other global locations were also included\u00a0 in an accompanying catalogue.\u00a0 This ground-breaking show\u00a0 travelled to Paris, Worthing, Ghent, Utrecht as well as the Royal Geographical Society and The Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Informed by debates on the\u00a0globalisation\u00a0of the garment industry, The Clothes She Wears<\/em> reveals concerns about women’s pay, hours and working conditions. Siobhan is not only concerned with\u00a0discriminatory\u00a0practices at work, however. She also raises\u00a0awareness\u00a0of the\u00a0particular\u00a0pressures on women to conform to idealised perceptions of \u00a0female beauty. Inspired by the writings of Julia Kristeva, she makes drawings which reveal the hidden narratives about the representation of imperfect bodies, illness and desire.<\/p>\n In 2016 she curated\u00a0Drawing Work<\/em>, an eclectic, international exhibition of\u00a0drawings about the experience of work 17 by artists from India, The USA, Indonesia, The Netherlands, the UK, The Czech Republic and Turkey. This was shown at CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam in February 2016. Siobhan also wrote the catalogue and gave a drawing workshop inviting participants to make a 3D cut paper model of their\u00a0 ideal place of work.<\/span><\/p>\n Siobhan lives in The Netherlands and has a studio with OARZO, (Stichting Ateliers Zuidoost). She has spent the past few years\u00a0 writing, editing and publishing\u00a0 books of drawings about Britain leaving the European Union. Her first book in the series, Borderless<\/em>, was launched at\u00a0the Small Press Book Fair (Beurs van Kleine Uitgevers) in Paradiso. She recently published Borderless II and III<\/em>, other books of poetry and drawings made in response to the decision of 58% of British people to leave the EU. Borderless II<\/em> and Borderless III<\/em>\u00a0 includes work by artists and writers from London, the USA and Amsterdam.\u00a0 Her photobook Vintage Advice for Corona People<\/em> was published in summer 2020. She is also working on a series of drawings in collaboration with Amsterdam based performance poet Heli St Luce.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biography Siobhan Wall has worked as a senior lecturer, a writer, curator, and artist. Her writing on photography has appeared in Eyemazing magazine and she has written seven books about tranquil places in busy cities, including Quiet New York, Quiet Amsterdam,\u00a0Quiet Paris, Quiet Barcelona and Quiet London. 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