Student artwork will be unveiled at the event tomorrow evening
What’s under the cover? Come to the Collegiate Learning Centre showcase tomorrow to find out!
Exhibitors including Sachin Limbachia, Alicia Gledhill and Kitty Griffiths will be there to celebrate the new displays of their work.
The launch starts at 5pm. We’ll be tweeting during the event with photos and highlights – you can follow us @shuartinadsetts and look out for the hashtag #CLClaunch
We’d be delighted if you’d attend a joint celebration – the new Art in the Library exhibition and a showcase of the newly refurbished spaces at Collegiate Learning Centre will be held on Wednesday 27th November from 5.00pm. Take a tour of the new spaces, meet members of staff and some of our exhibitors, or just come and have a look over a glass of wine and a canape or two…
Details of how to book, location and timing are available on the eventbrite site here: https://artinlibrary.eventbrite.co.uk/
The event is open to staff, students, visitors – come and join us!
What does this remind you of?
That is part of the beauty of Alicia Gledhill’s ‘Trilogy’ collection.
Alicia has recently completed her MArt in Creative Art Practice, and we’re pleased to say that her work will be in the new exhibition at Collegiate.
Alicia has given us some insights into her work, and more details will be on display alongside the collection – we loved this paragraph in particular:
“I explore how everyday media can be worked into textile imagery, such as Blu Tac. While not a textile, the ways it falls when manipulated has a fabric nature. When size, scale and colour are withdrawn from Blu Tac it becomes a completely different material. There are similarities between the very small on earth and the very large of the universe: the birth of a cell looks very similar to the death of a star. When these are made into an image the perception of size is lost. This effects how the viewer sees things: when the size of the image is lost then the mind becomes open to different options. But the mind will always try to find something in the work that it recognises. People often say ‘you know what this reminds me of’ in relation to my work…”
During the summer, a lot of work has been going on at Collegiate Learning Centre to redevelop the study spaces and building features.
The new student art collections will reflect some of the subject studied on campus – such as health, wellbeing and sport.
We can’t wait to tell you more about the artists who will be featured so starting from tomorrow, we’ll be running a weekly feature about the upcoming artists and their work.
Watch this space!
Creative Connections presents the results of a collaborative project between Mart Photography students from Sheffield Hallam University and Studio MFA students from Georgia Southern University in the USA.
The project grouped six photographers studying at Sheffield Hallam with twelve 2D and 3D artists from Georgia Southern University to share ideas, influences and work in the creation of a collaborative grouping of cross media artwork for exhibition.
Students communicated by email, Skype and social networking before finalising their work and shipping it to Sheffield for exhibition. After exhibition in Sheffield the finished work will travel to Georgia Southern University for a matching exhibition on American soil.
Take a look at some of the photos here or on our Facebook gallery – more details of the exhibition in the learning centres will be published soon, along with interviews with some of the exhibiting students.
This week we’ve had a couple of students from local schools in the learning centre on work experience placements. Once Rhianna and Alicia had settled in, we asked them to take a look around the building and give us their opinions on the art work on display. Here are their first impressions:
“I am Rhianna from Springs Academy. Over the past two weeks I have been on work experience at the Adsetts Centre. During this time I spent an afternoon looking at the Art in Adsetts displays. Whilst looking around the building, there are many pieces of art work which have been produced by students who are on various courses here.
My favourite pieces were the ‘Mother’ collection by Daniel Weaver who studied Film and Visual Effects. 
The 11 pictures all caught my eye and I though that the way he had produced them was amazing!
I also really like the 3D models that are dotted around the building because you get a real feel for what the artist is trying to achieve. 
Another piece I liked was Adam Bennett’s photography. His pieces of art are creative and modern – his work really shows off the potential that Hallam University art students have. I would recommend looking at Art in Adsetts to others so they can see the talent which is being shown.”
“I’m Alicia; I’m a Year 10 student at Handsworth Grange Community Sports College on a two-week work experience placement here at Hallam University, mainly based in the Adsetts Centre. As I have worked around the building I have noticed a lot of art displays which are examples of student work across the city campus. The art varies from Fine Art to Photography and even Fashion items. I find that being able to see student work on display creates inspiration. The inspiration will inspire other students to see their own potential.
The art also shows the public how hard the students work at Hallam and what the University has to offer its students when they choose Sheffield Hallam, as well as the quality of time and effort that is spent on the chosen course. I only have one improvement for the project which is to have more art on display, as it would have an even greater effect on the public and students.”
Want to know more? Come and check out the displays for yourself! Meanwhile, we’d like to wish all the best to both Rhianna and Alicia for their future studies.
