Education

The University of Leeds, 2001 - 2005, PhD in Fine Art Practice (AHRC sponsored scholarship)
The University of Leeds, 1996 - 1998, MA Feminist Theory, History & Criticism in the Visual Arts
The University of Huddersfield, 1994 - 1996, Certificate in Education, F.Ed.
Leeds College of Technology, 1992 - 1993, City & Guilds Further & Adult Education Teaching Certificate
Leeds College of Art, 1979 - 1982, National Diploma in Textile Design


Career

Part-time Lecturer: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2007
Visiting Lecturer: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2007
Lecturer in Art & Design, 1998 - 2000
Curriculum Leader Art & Design, 1996 - 1998
Lecturer in Art & Design, 1991 - 1996
Graphic Designer, 1984 - 1991
Freelance illustrator, 1982 - 1984


Collaborative Arts Project

Co-organiser (with Leonor da Silva) of the collaborative arts project, Showing: Expectations, September 26 - November 10, 2007. Exhbition venue, Patrick Studios/East Street Arts. Website address <http://www.showingexpectations.co.uk>


Performances, Exhibitions, Video Screenings, & Conference Presentations

York St John University, April 2009, Creative Practice/Creative Research: Materiality/Process/Performativity Conference
East Street Arts, September - November 2007, Showing Expectations: Collaborative Arts Project, Available online <http://www.showingexpectations.co.uk>
The University of Reading, July 2007, Miind<>Body Conference
The University of Leeds, May 2007, Catch me if you can - Chances and challenges of artistic research (collaborative presentation with Leonor da Silva and Ignaz Cassar). Available online
<http://www.showingexpectations.co.uk/criticalreflections/index.shtml>
The University of Leeds, January 2006, Migratory Aesthetics
The University of Lancaster, December 2005, The Documentation of Fine Art Processes and Practices. Available online <http://www.visualintelligences.com/sue-wilks.html>
The University of Leeds, September 2005, PhD Final Exhibition
The University of Amsterdam, July 2004, Cultural Analysis Summer Academy
The University of Leeds, January 2004, Safari (postgraduate research seminar)
The University of Leeds, September 2003, Frames and Other Travelling Concepts
The University of Leeds, February 2003, Postgraduate Research Seminar
The University of Leeds, February 2003, Visiting artist, MA Feminism in the Visual Arts
Leeds Town Hall, June 2002 Congress CATH: Translating Class, Altering Hospitality
Geneva, June 2002 ILC 9th Session of the International Conference of Trade Unionists
Berlin, February 2002 International Conference Against Deregulation and For Labour Rights For All


Group exhibition

East Street Studios, 1998 MA Feminism in the Visual Arts


Publications

Wilks, S.,Showing Expectations: Putting (Political) Policy into (Art) Practice. Available online <http://www.showingexpectations.co.uk/criticalreflections/index.shtml>
Wilks, S., Hoping Against All Hope: A response to Paul Digby's artwork. Available online <http://www.axisweb.org/seCVFU.aspx?ARTISTID=5718>
Wilks, S., Pedagogy: It all adds up... in audit culture, in Conceptual Odysseys: Passages to Cultural Analysis, ed. by Griselda Pollock, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp. 138 - 152.
Wilks, S., Subjectivity through e-motion: Digitised documentation in a dialogical dimension. Available online <http://www.visualintelligences.com/sue-wilks.html>
Wilks, S., Lucid Lines & Linguistic Lack, exhibition review in response to 16 Shades of Grey and The Gift of Tongues, parallel exhibitions’ by Leonor da Silva and Clare Charnley, Leeds Met Gallery publication, Leeds Metropolitan University, September 25 2007. Available online <http://82.138.229.164/clarecharnley/new_popup.asp>
Wilks, S., Exhibition review in response to Lesa Moriarity's Tally Sheet Drawing Series. Available online
<http://www.exhibit905.info/tallysheetdrawingseries/index.html>
Wilks, S., This Time Next Year We’ll Be Farting Through Silk: Aspiration & Experience, in Work, Craft and Labour: Visual Representations in Changing Histories (Volume 1), eds., Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock, (London: Ashgate, 2000), p. 193.
Wilks, S., 'Mistress of her destiny' in The Times Higher Education Supplement, September 5 1997, p. IV. Also available online <http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=102912&sectioncode=26>
Wilks, S., 'It's all in a name’ in Lippy, Leeds University Union Women's magazine, September 1997, p. 2.
Wilks, S., University of the West of England, Bristol Journal Drawing Fire, book review for Alison Marchant's Living Room, (London: Working Press, 1997).