Who we are

Kerry Harker is an artist/curator based in Leeds since completing a BA and MA at the University here. As an artist she has shown in New Contemporaries in 2004 (Camden Arts Centre, London), Collect in 2005 (V&A Museum, London) and Gathered World in 2010 (Aberystwyth Arts Centre). From 2004-6 she was a Director of the curatorial project Vitrine which she co-founded with Pippa Hale, staging temporary exhibitions of contemporary art, much of it commissioned, around Leeds’ city centre. In 2006 she co-founded PSL with Pippa Hale and Diane Howse and has been a Director ever since. Kerry also sits on the Board of Trustees of the Art House in Wakefield, an organisation founded in 1994 to create equality of opportunities for disabled and non-disabled artists alike.
www.the-arthouse.org.uk

Pippa Hale is an artist curator and Co-Director of PSL. She is also Director of the Northern Art Prize which launched in 2007 at Leeds Art Gallery. As an artist, she has exhibited in a range of group and solo projects in the UK, including 'Beyond The Dustheaps' at the Dickens Museum, London (2010) and commissions for Leeds City Council at Leeds International Pool (2008) and Southampton City Council for ‘North and South’ (2007). Pippa also sits on the boards of Leeds Visual Arts Forum and Leeds Civic Trust.
www.northernartprize.org.uk
www.axisweb.org/artist/pippahale
www.lvaf.org.uk
www.leedscivictrust.org.uk

Zoë Sawyer works as Programme Manager at PSL. She has an active curatorial practice and is co-founder and curator of theartmarket & kunstfreund gallery– a Leeds based artist-led curatorial project/ artspace/ art bookshop initiated in 2006. As an artist she has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK and America. She is a member of Leeds Visual Arts Forum steering group and is also a member of Mexico, a new art-space and project in Leeds city centre opening in September 2011.
www.kunstfreund.org.uk
www.m-e-x-i-c-o.co.uk
www.lvaf.org.uk

Kathryn Welford works as freelance Education Coordinator at PSL. Kathryn has worked in gallery and creative education for almost twenty years both as an artist and project manager. She was Visual Arts Education Officer at Cornerhouse, Manchester International Art Centre, until 2005 and is Yorkshire representative for engage (National Association for Gallery Education). She currently works freelance for Creative Partnerships, brokering partnership projects between schools and the cultural sector. She also works part-time as Outreach Coordinator for Axis, the online resource for contemporary art and delivers participation projects as an artist for various galleries across Yorkshire.