With a background within economics, Margaret Shiu-Yan went into arts in the eighties and later she became a cultural activist in Taiwan.
Due to her many contacts in the central administration, Ms Shiu-Tan has succeded in saving lots of interesting old industrial buildings for creative space for art.
In the last seven years, Ms Shiu-Tan witnessed the constraints on the development of the arts in Taiwan, and thus moved from being a creative visual artist, to that of an art and culture activist.
As the director of an alternative space, the Bamboo Curtain Studio, she has activated many issues on artist”s role in cultural, social and environmental development and has networked with various international art organisations for research and collaborations.
