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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Penny McCarthy’s ‘Catworld’ article published by Textual Practice Journal

Detail from 9-panel grid comic page of ink drawings of cats in a variety of situations in house in Spitalfields London, illustrating William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat. Image provided by Penny McCarthy.

Penny’s visual article ‘Catworld’ has been published by the Textual Practice Journal (Taylor & Francis Routledge), and are available to view on the journal website here: Catworld  The introduction of the full special issue ‘Animality, Performance, and Voice: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat’ in Textual Practice Volume 37, Issue 7 (2023)‘ discusses Penny’s work in relation to the whole practice-based research […]

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Darcy White (Senior Lecturer, SHU) articles published in ‘The Conversation’

Darcy White (Senior Lecturer in Film and Photography, Sheffield Hallam University) has recently had a number of articles published in The Conversation: ‘Sasha Huber’s You Name It: Swiss-Haitian artist renegotiates colonial history in activist exhibition‘, published March 2023 ‘Yevonde: an introduction to the woman who pioneered colour photography’ , published April 2023 ‘Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition reopens the National […]

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Updates from Hester Reeve – July 2023

Composite image courtesy of Hester Reeve - Whitehead emerging with feeling via the sun downing, 2023

16 July 2023 – Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead: Life as Movement As part of the Pari Centre for New Learning’s summer ‘Beyond Bohm’ programme, Hester Reeve joined a panel Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead: Life As Movement alongside Àlex Gómez-Marin and Lee Nichol. Full details are available on the Pari Centre website. 20 July 2023 – Hiding Out online […]

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Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 2023 – A summary of the 40th anniversary conference of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)

Written by Dr Diane A Rodgers During 26-30 June 2023, this prestigious event was held at Sheffield Hallam University, hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Legend (CCL) in the Dorothy Fleming lecture theatre, Charles Street. Dr David Clarke, Andrew Robinson and myself, Dr Diane Rodgers, co-founders of the CCL, were privileged to welcome ISCLR to Sheffield where the very first […]

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Prof Esther Johnson’s photo book ‘The Beacons of Hull’ launch – 30 June 2023

3 images showing the cream coloured phone boxes in Hull and the book cover

Today sees the launch of Professor Esther Johnson‘s new photo book ‘The Beacons of Hull‘. The Beacons of Hull is the story of the K8 telephone kiosk and its unique-to-Hull Honeysuckle Cream variant, as told and photographed by Professor Esther Johnson. In February 2023 nine rare K8 phone kiosks in and around Hull were listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice […]

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DUST & METAL (CÁT BỤI & KIM LOẠI) to premiere in Viet Nam as part of the British Council’s UK/Viet Nam Season 2023 in October

DUST & METAL (CÁT BỤI & KIM LOẠI), the first UK-Viet Nam cine-concert co-production, will premiere in Viet Nam as part of the British Council’s UK/Viet Nam Season 2023 in October Dust & Metal, a creative documentary feature film, will be presented with a live music score. The music will be composed by San Francisco-based Vietnamese electronic artist Xo Xinh, […]

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Rose Butler to present at Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives conference in July 2023

Rose Butler has been accepted to present at the Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives conference at the Bauhaus, Weimar in July 2023 (21st-22nd). Rose will be presenting her doctoral research and her recent collaborative exhibition UNLAND. For more information, please visit the conference programme here. Rose Butler is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Dr Becky Shaw in university and gallery partnership to receive UK’s first AHRC Exhibition Fund award for ‘Things of the Least’.

image copyright Manchester Art Gallery/Ben Blackall

Fine Art Reader Dr Becky Shaw is lead artist researcher in a team that has secured the only 2023 UK Exhibition Fund grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Things of the Least will be an experiment in ‘exhibition-making’, exploring how very young children engage with the material world. It builds on Becky’s previous collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University’s […]

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‘For Whom the Mountains Pray’- Art Exhibition 14-26 August 2023 – Helen Blejerman

For Whom the Mountains Pray Art exhibition by Helen Blejerman 14th–26th August 2023 (Monday to Saturday, 10:00-16:00) Post Hall, Department of Art & Design, Old Head Post Office Fitzalan Square, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2AY For Whom the Mountains Pray proposes the simulation of a mythological future. A world where the bodies of murdered women buried under the mountains’ […]

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Sheffield Hallam re-imagines the 100-year life at London Design Festival

An exploration of the role of design in re-imagining the 100-year life is being showcased by Sheffield Hallam University at London Design Biennale this month, as part of London Design Festival. The interactive exhibition presents a body of design research to enhance health and wellbeing for an ageing population, developed by the University’s interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living. It is part of the […]

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