APHE Hold Forth - 26th March

Our next HOLD FORTH online gathering March 26th at 4.30 p.m.

Making, teaching and research.

Sian Bonnell joins us to talk about the dark arts of connecting our practice & our pedagogy to research.

Sian has a BA (hons) in sculpture from Chelsea School of Art, an MA in Fine Art from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic, and a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. Until her retirement in 2021, Sian Bonnell was Reader in Wilful Amateurism at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has exhibited extensively across Europe and in both North and South America, and in Asia. Her work is held in a number of prestigious public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Her monograph ‘Wilful Amateur’ was published by Neverdone Press in 2025. She currently lives and works in Plymouth, United Kingdom.