Bloc Projects

Volunteer Callout!

Bloc Projects are looking for volunteers this Summer to help with Front of House and Events. Volunteers can gain valuable experience in this forward facing position where you will meet artists and industry professionals.

Required:
11am - 5pm, 1 day per week for 6 weeks, either Wednesday or Friday

You will receive:
Experience in gallery operations
Meet industry professionals and networks
Skills and reference for CV
1 year full access to Bloc Projects Membership Scheme and events

All training will be provided

Please email [email protected]

We're excited to announce our upcoming exhibition, When Things Fail to Cohere: Members Show 2026, opening this June! 🌠 ⁠
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📅 25 June 2026 – 8 August 2026⁠
🎇 Launch Event: Thursday, 25 June, 6–8pm⁠
📍 Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield ⁠
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When Things Fail to Cohere brings together four artists working across sculpture, installation, moving image, print and text to explore different states of uncertainty: the fear of and yearning for power; the freedom and struggle of the q***r body; the drifting vo**ur; and those who have lost their way. In their shared ambiguity, the works collectively invite a kind of disquieting contemplation.⁠
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Alana Lake’s (.studio) q***r minimalist sculptures refer to the force and violence that belie structures of power. Similarly emphasising material realities, Lucy Marriott () creates mythical flesh-like forms with rubber tubes and rose thorns that play out the lived experiences of q***r bodies. Romane Courdacher () assembles photographs, sounds and found objects to unexpectedly conjure a spectral presence. And by skewing our visual perception, Ngo Chun Tse’s () video installation is an uncanny reflection on movement and displacement. Keenly destabilising, When Things Fail to Cohere considers how we navigate and position the social realities that shape our lives.⁠
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This year's four artists were selected by Hong Kong-born artist Jun Rui Lo (). Currently based in Manchester, Jun Rui makes and curates with an interest in identity politics and the aesthetics of ambiguity. Rooted in their gender nonconformity and diasporic experience, their practice explores the fluidity and freedom of identity while giving form to feelings of melancholy and alienation.