Management Committee

The IWAA-GB is made up of the following voluntary artist members who are committed to promoting women’s art in the region and internationally.

CHAIR: Panni Poh Yoke Loh founded IWAA–GB in 2001. She holds an MA in Art as Environment (2003) and has a BSc in Textile Design, a BA in Applied Social Studies and a Diploma in Permaculture Design. She practices as a freelance British Chinese artist from her studio in Pitsmoor and has exhibited widely in the UK and overseas with work in the permanent collection of Sheffield Libraries. She works on commissions, delivers workshops and particularly enjoys working positively with people of diverse cultures, the earth and referencing the spiritual. She is a member of the Research body: Social Environmental Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. In her paid employment she has managed major arts projects for Green City Action notably founding the annual Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival in 1999 and organising it until 2002.

She is pleased to have initiated this organisation offering opportunities to British-based women artists in the UK and overseas organising our third exhibition.

SECRETARY: Sharon Gill is Project Manager for ‘Open Up’ Sheffield an annual open up artists studio’s citywide event in May and is Co-Project Manager for the Arts Project for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. She is also Strategic Project Manager for the Garden Rooms, studios and community arts organisations. She has an MA in Art as Environment (Manchester Metropolitan University) and BA Fine Art (Leeds Polytechnic).

Her art practice displays magpie tendencies in all media, while interpreting the unseen world, both real and imaginary.

TREASURER: Lois Palframan has environmental science and art degrees plus MA Contemporary Art. In her art work and life she tries to be ecosocial and values studying Arabic and German, helping at a local Primary School and at Recycling Matters. She uses local brick dust, filtered water, recycled paper, local twigs and draws regularly and rapidly. In trying to see, think of substance/spirit rather than the meaning she is aware of her spirituality and inner creation. Lois states that the dreamstate is preferable to normal knowing/controlling of womanstate.

Dreamscape exhibition at Recyling Matters 127 Spital Hill, Sheffield. March Tuesdays and Thursdays 10–4.

COMMITTEE MEMBER: Nuala Price’s chosen medium is hand-printed photography since completing her degree at Hallam University. In her work she visits the theme of identity and has ‘staged’ images of herself under the controlled environment of the studio further investigated and exhibited in Burngreave Cemetery Chapel Friday April 2nd-4th 2004.

Since 2000 she has been involved with organising and running workshops across the city. She is currently working with Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust providing workshops for local groups in North East Sheffield, using the theme of ‘Treasures’. Images gathered from working with these groups will be exhibited on hoardings covering the Mappin and Weston Park Museum until 2005. Last summer she ran a block of six week workshops with adults with learning difficulties, after which she has been asked to take up a year residency with the group from May this year.