‘A Thousand Voices’ VR Explorations by LIBá Collective at the London Art Biennale 2023

recent VR exhibition, ‘A Thousand Voices’, at The London Art Biennale by Danny Bacchus - image courtesy of Danny Bacchus, photographer Liz Isles.

LIBá Collective is the collaboration of digital artist & BA, MA, FHEA of Sheffield Hallam University Danny Bacchus, filmmaker Dominic Green and multi-disciplinary artist Marcel Schreur. Their exhibition at London Art Biennale 2023 features two VR works and an accompanying display of artefacts that expresses aspects of the life experience of 98 year of Ukrainian and Gulag survivor, Ivanna Maszczak. […]

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The Saltley Geyser – 7-10 September 2023 – Professor David Cotterrell Installation

David Cotterrell - Saltley Geyser (credit Grant Smith, 1998)

Totally Thames’s artistic commission for 2023 is the extraordinary Saltley Geyser by the installation artist David Cotterrell. As one of the key events for the London-wide Thames Festival cultural program, this represents a dramatic return for one of Cotterrell’s first public projects. 25 years after its original installation (in a small park in Birmingham), it will be witnessed again in East London’s Royal Albert […]

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Design Futures shortlisted in two categories for the UK Packaging Awards 2023

Photo shows a pink cardboard box. The closing flap of the box has the appearance of a pig's nose. To the left of the box are 3 Trupic vegan chocolate bars. The packaging is printed with the words 'Keep Trufflin'"

Design Futures has been shortlisted once again for UK Packaging Awards. This year, they are shortlisted for the ‘Design Team of the Year’ Performance Award. They have also been nominated for their innovative packaging design for local chocolate company Trupig Vegan in the ‘Corrugated: Online Retail and Consumer Goods’ Quality Award category. Speaking about the design for Trupig, Design Futures […]

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Penny McCarthy receives DYCP award from Arts Council England

Photo-realistic pencil drawing of crashing ocean waves with moon in the background. Image provided by Penny McCarthy

Penny has received a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award from Arts Council England to develop research towards her new project Ocean exploring art historical representations of Venice in relation to understandings of environmental catastrophe across time. Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Penny is an artist and academic with a particular interest in […]

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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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