Professor Virginia Heath wins UK Global Screen Fund Award for research film project

The UK Global Screen Fund announced awards on 26th June for 11 international Co-productions which include ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. A minority UK co-production with Ireland. The UK producer is Scotland-based Faction North (Grant Keir) who will co-produce with Irish EZ Films (David Clarke and David Power). The character-led documentary feature film will be directed by Virginia Heath, telling the story of a unique Irish […]

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Rose Butler to present at the Sustainable Photography Conference: 3- 4 July 2025

Rose Butler be presenting a paper and exhibiting film work made in collaboration with Rob Gawthrop at the Sustainable Photography? conference 3rd and 4th July at Falmouth University: https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/events/sustainable-photography-conference This new work was commissioned for the group exhibition faethm, Kelham Island Museum (2025) curated by Amy Carter Gordon as part of the River Don Project in partnership with SHU.   The film works were made […]

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Virginia Heath’s Impact Campaign for ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’

Professor Virginia Heath has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’.  Rendered purely through image and music (by Afterlands), the film is a cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance.  Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture […]

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Lise Autogena exhibits in ‘Shadowily in different tongues’ at Ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Picture of Professor Lise Autogena

This exhibition brings together artists and local communities that resist the social and political processes that are driving planet Earth and its human and non-human inhabitants to the verge of exhaustion. These voices from various regions stand up against the exploitation of nature and people – like destructive mining activity, the poisoning and waste of water: acts that change and […]

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On the Radar: “Ground Truths and Situated Arts Practice” with Dr Rose Butler – Tuesday 13 May 2025

ON THE RADAR research seminars promote the sharing of knowledge across the entire Sheffield Hallam University community – all are welcome, free to attend. Our next talk is by Rose Butler (Senior Lecturer Fine Art) with Ground Truths and Situated Arts Practice. Outline:   Arts research has the potential to extend what is visible, whilst working in response to specific […]

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Rose Butler’s “The Fair” to be screened at Close-Up Cinema, London on Thursday 12 December 2024

Rose Butler’s experimental video The Fair will be screened as part of One Minute Volume 9, Close-Up Cinema on Thursday 12th December at 8.15pm. Over the past 16 years, artist-filmmaker Kerry Baldry has been curating and organising this innovative series of artists’ moving images, each precisely one minute in length. These experimental works thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional […]

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Rose Butler presents at the International Conference of Photography and Theory 2024

International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]

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Rose Butler presents at Improvising Care Conference – McGill/Montreal, October 5–9 2024

Chausseeestrasse; digital composite panorama, 4m x 1.2m

Improvising Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-9th October as part of Flux experimental music festival, Arts in the Margins, Montreal. “In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom” “Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is […]

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Rose Butler takes part in ‘Archiving Care’ hosted by NeMe – September 2024

Traditionally archives perform abstractions, suggest connections and compatibilities, and offer a perspective. Although our call for speakers asked for a critical re-interpretation of archives as historically infected collections with “‘politically dubious biases, patriarchal, colonial agendas, and represent ideological modes of control,” and discuss their new challenges n the age of AI, no submission touched these themes. The call though posed […]

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