Sophie Mak-Schram

Chapter Arts Centre and National Museum Cardiff

BIO

Sophie Mak-Schram cares about the radicality possible in the 'and' between art and education. She works with others, both as method and form. Her work spans experiential education, collective practice and (artistic) research. She convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, facilitates and performs.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Sophie is exploring power - who has it, how it works and what it does - within the National Museum (Cardiff) and Chapter Arts Centre. Working with a range of collaborators - activists, community workers, artists, museum staff - they are developing collaborative 'tools'. These 'tools' range from access templates to modified megaphones and sound pieces, and intervene in power structures to offer methods or moments to learn together or collaborate more equitably. The 'tools' will be shown alongside key museum collection items that Sophie and collaborators have worked with, including the Schools Outreach Collection and the Asian Art corridor. They will be exhibited at Amgueddfa Cymru from May 2025 and Chapter from September 2025.

QUOTE

“Decolonising involves the reorientation of many values and structures that currently oppress most of us. The question is, in the European context, can one decolonise from a colonial centre? I have been working on themes that relate to this question across my artistic and academic work for a long time, and am now excited to be working in the specific context of Cardiff, a city with a lot of complex histories.”