Sue Ball is a producer and director of Media and Arts Partnership (MAAP). She has a particular interest in working across disciplines, specifically with sound and the social network as a context for cultural activism and professional learning.
She has worked with notable international artists in the fields of public practice and sound including US sound artist Bill Fontana (the transformative nature of sound in regeneration Birmingham University/Arts Council England 2005-07) and Hans Peter Kuhn (major sound and light installation, Light Neville Street 2006-10 with Bauman Lyons Architects, and client Leeds City Council/Yorkshire Forward).
Sue has led regional and national research programmes on the making of place and the sensory understanding of place. She is a founder member of Leeds Creative Timebank, sits on the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (Yorkshire CVAN) regional steering group and is an invited Associate of PLaCE, the international research group initiated by Prof Iain Biggs.