Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
Dr Jack Black (Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport) has co-authored a piece for RTE looking at how fans reconcile the misdeeds of their owners with their identity as Manchester City supporters, after reports of sportswashing. Read the piece here.
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Re-embroidering Blackwork is the culmination of a 5 year Ph.D research project by artist and embroiderer Toni Buckby. Working with the collection of 16th century blackwork embroideries held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Toni has been exploring questions of decay, loss, fragility, and reconstruction within and beyond the museum archive. Re-embroidering Blackwork will present selected pieces from Toni’s studio research practice […]
Read moreSenior Lecturer in Visual Communication Joanna Rucklidge‘s thought provoking exhibition Enough on our Plates is running at the Food Works social enterprise in Sheffield – showcasing prints and drawings inspired by the pressing issue of food waste. Joanna has been working as an artist in residence at Food Works, engaging with their staff, volunteers, warehouse, cafés, farm and the food itself! The […]
Read moreDr Ruth Deller features in an article in The Guardian, commenting on the popularity of celebrity Bobby Brazier.
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Rose Butler will be presenting now completed doctoral research at the VIII Art of Research 2023 conference at Aalto University, Finland next week. The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and […]
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On Wednesday 15 November Professor John Goodby was one of two experts on Irish poetry and poetry translation, together with Dr Francis Jones of Newcastle University, invited to speak at a research seminar in the series run by the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) at UEA; this event centred on the launch of Helen Gibson’s book on translations by […]
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When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide? Professor David Cotterrell, Director of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute has had his work, Gateway II, referenced in a Guardian piece looking at the Imperial War Museum’s new galleries showcasing artistic responses to conflict since its inception during the First World War. On the photographs featured in the exhibition, […]
Read moreThe Hanse: Re-imagining the North Sea research project, led by Judith Stewart & Patrick Wichert, followed up their September conference panel ‘Artists and their affective responses to archives and oral histories at the European Rural Historians Organisation in Cluj-Napoca with a return residency and exhibition at Cromer’s Artspace on the Prom. At Artspace on the Prom (November 2023), with fellow researcher and artist James Quinn, they […]
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The ‘Yes We Can’ exhibition is a showcase of Art and Design and Digital Media technicians’ own work. Our exhibiting technicians are highly skilled people, with many of them having their own creative practice outside of their jobs. The work on show is as varied as the specialisms we cover within the workshops. Ceramics, jewellery, photography and printmaking are represented, […]
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The Soil Séance Sessions by Michelle Atherton has just completed its first season. The Sessions invite individuals to spend time listening to the soil at a site of their choosing. To turn their auditory perception downwards, by using an acoustic device as a portal to the underworld. An offer to transduce, to turn one form of energy into another by way of […]
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