Sophie Mak-Schram

Sophie Mak-Schram cares about how a diverse “we” (come to) know and what form knowledge takes. She works with others, both as method and as form. Her work spans experiential education, inclusion work, collective practices, and artistic research. She convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, and performs. Currently, she’s (still) interested in the “and” between art and education, and speculative architectures that bridge or world between the two.

Recently, Sophie was Associate Artist with Peak Cymru during 2023–24 in relation to their work with young people, and one of seven Perspective(s) commissions funded by Arts Council Wales exploring decolonisation between 2023-25. She is a co-convener of Gentle Gestures, a porous international research group about forms of pedagogies across/through the arts, Research Associate at CCA Derry-Londonderry between 2024-25, and Curriculum Redefined Teaching Excellence lecturer at the University of Leeds. She completed a PhD about radical pedagogies in and of the arts as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Europewide PhD programme about the future(s) of socially engaged practices.