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
The Dieselkraftwerk museum in Cottbus, Germany has acquired three sets of works by Sharon Kivland from her body of work entitled The Natural Forms, a series of works developed in three parts for three venues addresses gender constructions and economics. Sharon Kivland had a solo exhibition at the museum in Autumn 2015. The Museum has a collection of 30,000 works […]
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For this major new exhibition at MAC, SHU Professor of Sculpture Keith Wilson further develops his longstanding investigation into the cultural status of sculpture, considering how ideas develop in the private sphere of the artist’s studio and transform into a public presentation of work in a gallery. Calendar Upper Gallery, MAC Belfast 12 August – 16 October 2016 Preview on […]
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Claire Craig presented some of the findings from InTaCT at the First International Conference of COTEC and ENOTHE in Galway, Ireland on 15 – 19 June 2016. The conference brings together the Congress for Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries and the European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education. Claire spoke particularly of the most recent element of the […]
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Dr Esther Johnson‘s AHRC-funded project, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, will screen at Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland later in April. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of urbanisation, industrialisation and migration in the British Isles. This two-day symposium offers a forum for […]
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Works by Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) PhD student Emma Bolland has been selected for entry into collections at the Royal Festival Hall and the V&A. LECTOLALIA (a romance) (2015) has been purchased for the Saison Poetry collection at the Royal Festival Hall. LECTOLALIA (a romance) is Bolland’s response to the Leeds College of Art & Design Library Interventions […]
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Professor Keith Wilson has made it to the final of 5 artists shortlisted for the Birmingham Big Art Project, which will commission a new £2 million artwork for Birmingham. The Birmingham Big Art Project was established by Birmingham Civic Society to mark its centenary celebrations to create a lasting piece of permanent public art for the city. The objective of […]
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Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]
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Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]
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Dr Becky Shaw, Reader in Fine Art and Postgraduate Tutor, has been selected as one of five international artists to participate in WATERSHED+: Dynamic Environment Lab which will take place in Calgary between 10 January and 15 January. The WATERSHED+ Lab is a concept that immerses artists with the intent to support critical thinking, shared knowledge and to bring contemporary […]
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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD) will present the United States premiere of Chloë Brown’s Dancing in the Boardroom (Turnin’ My Heartbeat Up) video work and her large drawing From Alfred Street to Temple Street, Detroit. Dancing in the Boardroom uses the music and dance of Northern Soul to explore issues of class and hierarchy within the post-industrial […]
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