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ARTDNA

Artist Sally Sheinman and curator Sanna Moore talk about working together in the latest in our collaborative relationships series.

Approximately five years ago Sanna and I worked on a project together, The wishing ceremony. At the time Sanna was curator at the University of Hertfordshire Galleries and we decided to do a touring interactive piece, asking the general public to take part. The work toured to six separate locations including Hatfield, Leicester and Birmingham. It was a real challenge but in the end worked extremely well and was for both of us a very successful project. We kept in touch and tried to develop another piece but were finding funding difficult. It seems funding for projects is always difficult if you have your own idea. You can get Arts Council England funding, but then you need some sort of partnership, and other funding is often not driven by the artist but by funders, meaning you have to compromise your idea to make it work with a certain set of rules. Sanna then took on a new curating role and offered me the opportunity to do an exciting new project. The idea for ARTDNA started with a chat about human DNA and grew from there. We both wanted to do a project with the general public and a shopping centre had always been appealing. Working in a very public space has the enormous...

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