Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Her site-responsive process works with common materials to invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of labour, with We Will Sing as her largest solo UK installation to date.

June Hill

June Hill is a freelance curator and writer from Bradford. She is particularly interested in process, the sacramental, gift economies and relationships between historic material and contemporary practice. She is most closely associated with Bankfield Museum, Halifax where she led a developmental programme (1989-2004) of new galleries, exhibitions, commissions and residencies with artists that included Michael Brennand-Wood, Alice Kettle and Sue Lawty. Since 2005 June has been working independently on projects with practitioners, universities and cultural organisations such as Ruthin Craft Centre, Salts Mill and Two Temple Place London. She has written numerous artist monographs and was a regular contributor to Embroidery from 2006-2022. She co-curated We Will Sing with Jennifer Hallam (independent arts consultant), the two having previously worked together on projects at Salts Mill and Two Temple Place.

Chaired by Dr Claire Wellesley-Smith

Dr Claire Wellesley-Smith is an artist and researcher based in Bradford. Claire has spent over twenty years building a practice across visual arts, academic research, writing and curation. Her socially engaged projects are often long-term engagements alongside communities in former areas of industrial textile production in the UK and Europe, employing textiles as a medium to carry stories, heritage narratives and the geographies of making. In this creative health and cultural heritage context she has fostered connections with a wide network of organisations, individuals, and heritage institutions. Her postdoctoral fellowship, Crafting Resilience, was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. Recent projects include The Synthetic Revolution, a major curatorial project for the British Textile Biennial and Connective Material at Museum Dr Guislain, Belgium. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in Geography and Environmental Studies at The Open University.