Sarah Perks is an international curator and producer of contemporary visual art, independent film and engagement. She will be Artistic Director for Visual Arts and Film of

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, the centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film formed by the merger of

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

and the Library Theatre Company. She is currently artistic director of Cornerhouse and is the founder of Cornerhouse Artist Film.

Career

In January 2014, Perks curated ''Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat'',
Cornerhouse Jamie Shovlin Hiker Meat a solo exhibition that included the new commission ''Rough Cut'', an installation and feature-length film produced in partnership with

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

and in competition at 43rd

Rotterdam International Film Festival The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...

. In 2011, Perks founded Cornerhouse Artist Film, a UK specialist distributor of artist feature film, starting with the UK and Ireland theatrical release of ''Self Made'', the directorial debut of

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

winning artist

Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He ...

. Perks is a lecturer, presenter and published author in contemporary culture, lecturing in a range of subjects from creative industries to postcolonialism at institutions including the

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and the

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. She taught for several years at City College Manchester. Through her career Perks has worked with a number of high-profile artists, including

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Jeremy Deller Jeremy Deller (born 30 March 1966) is an English people, English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is Collaboration, collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the Idealiz ...

, Rosa Barba,

and

David Shrigley David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Early life and education Shrigley was born 17 September 1968 in Macclesfi ...

. Curatorial credits also include the group show ''Anguish and Enthusiasm: What do you do with your revolution once you've got it??'', Los Angeles performance and video artist ''Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool I’m Good''. Perks co-edited a special edition of ''Film International'' on ''film noir'' involving a range of artists, film makers and writers and is currently developing a book on artist feature film. In 2009, she was a

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Creative Entrepreneur Finalist for Visual Arts.
British Council Creative Entrepreneur Finalist

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