Showing Expectations, Collaborative Arts Project, Leeds, Visual Art, Community Groups, Expectations, Widening Participation, Sue Wilks, Leonor da Silva, People, Experimental, Critical, Articulating, Criticality, Curatorial, Process Based, Practice Led Research

Leonor da Silva and Sue Wilks are independent artists/researchers/educators who met through their shared research interests while studying in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. The concept for Showing: Expectations was initiated by Leonor da Silva, who worked in collaboration with Ignaz Cassar (a fellow PhD student)to further develop the project. Sue Wilks was invited to join the collaboration around four months into the process. Ignaz Cassar left the project on September 26 2007, at the beginning of the exhibition process, and Sue Wilks and Leonor da Silva continued to work together on the project. This website plots the process that was undergone in order to realise the Showing: Expectations concept and documents the changes, successes, failures, outcomes and understanding that have since emerged.

Outside East Street Arts prior to a meeting		The residue from an unsuccessful meeting	A meeting with organisers from the Workers' Educational Association
Images documenting some of the Showing: Expectations meetings were held. Click to enlarge (all images)

Leonor & Sue	Ignaz & Leonor			Sue & Leonor