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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

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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Professor Heath presents paper at ‘Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration’ conference at Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Virginia Heath presented a paper with film clips at the Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration conference (12th & 13th June 2023) at Sheffield Hallam University. The paper, ‘Using Archive Fragments To Creatively Reimagine Gaps, Silences and Absences’, was part of the ‘Heritage, Archives and Creative Practice’ Panel on the 13th of June. The presentation is part of […]

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The Felicitous Encounter: A two person exhibition featuring artists Dorit Margreiter & Fay Nicolson, curated by TC McCormack at the EUCA Annex – June 2nd-30th 2023

The Felicitous Encounter is Euca Annex’s inaugural show, Dorit Margreiter and Fay Nicholson bring together new, recent and unseen works, that explore the tensions between architecture and image, orientation and choreography, time and movement. Asking what makes the ‘Commons visible between individuals’, the philosophers Hardt and Negri coined the term The Felicitous Encounter, to describe a moment when individuals come […]

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20 years of practice-led PhDs in art, design and media

Sketch of prosthetic hand design by Dr Graham Whiteley (2000)

Our long history of practice-led PhDs in art, design and media goes back to the earliest days of the ADMRC over 20 years ago. More than 40 students have completed PhD projects, many of whom now have well established international careers as artists, designers, craft practitioners, researchers and educators. The first practice-led design PhD at Sheffield Hallam University was awarded […]

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Chris Knight’s ‘Embrace’ sculpture at Stonebridge Beck signals the next chapter for heritage site as a contemporary community

Credit: Simon Dewhurst

A poignant new large-scale public artwork by Chris Knight at Stonebridge Beck in Farnley, Leeds, has been unveiled at an official ribbon cutting ceremony led by Rachel Reeves, Labour MP for Leeds West and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. The artwork celebrates the industrial heritage of Stonebridge Beck – home to the Grade II listed Stonebridge Mills which was once […]

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