Maria Hanson (Jewellery & Metalwork, SHU) speaks at Cambridge University and asks “What’s In My Stuff?”

An composite image of circuitry

Maria Hanson, (Jewellery and Metalwork, SHU) speaks at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University) on Monday 27 February 2017 exploring the unprecedented amount of “stuff” we own. What’s in my Stuff? seeks to engage with the public and explore the relationship between people and their gadgets. In doing so it hopes to raise […]

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Esther Johnson’s ‘Abstractions of Holderness’ screening at Hull’s UK City of Culture festival – February 2017

Image of wind turbines from Esther Johnson, Abstractions of Holderness

Esther Johnson’s new film Abstractions of Holderness to screen with BBC Concert Orchestra as part of Hull 2017. Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. The music for the film is scored by Saint Etienne and will premiere during Mind on the Run: The Basil Kirchin Story, a 3-day festival as […]

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Wednesday 15 February 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Alaster Yoxall (Design Futures, SHU)

Image of opening single portion packaging

Speaker: Dr Alaster Yoxall (Principle Research Fellow in Human Centred Engineering, Design Futures) Title: “The Good The Bad and the Ugly”: Understanding the role of single portion packaging and nutrition in a hospital environment Alaster has been involved in the ‘Inclusive Design’ of packaging for a little over 10 years and has presented work in Australia, Thailand, Germany, The Netherlands […]

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Susannah Gent’s Unhomely Street selected for Oberhausen Short Film Festival – May 2017

GENT unhomely street

Unhomely Street Oberhausen Short Film Festival Thursday 11 May – Tuesday 16 May 2017 Susannah Gent‘s film Unhomely Street, has been selected to premiere at the 63rd International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. The festival runs from 11 – 16 May 2017. Unhomely Street follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders […]

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Rose Butler’s film BOX selected for One Minute International Video Art Festival – exhibitions opens 23 March 2017

Rose Butler, Box

BOX One Minute International Video Art Festival Milan Thursday 23 March – Sunday 2 April 2017 Rose Butler’s film BOX has been selected for the One Minute International Video Art Screening in Milan Photographed on a 1920’s box camera and created from a film printed in its entirety – including the gaps between the images. This animation includes all the […]

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Material Truths at Site Gallery features work by Penny McCarthy, Reader in Fine Art – opens 17 February

Penny McCarthy Material Truths, Joan's Hand Tracey Holland

Material Truths Site Gallery, Sheffield Friday 17 February – Friday 10 March 2017 Open Tuesday – Saturday 11.00am – 5.30pm Admission is free Material Truths, featuring work from Penny McCarthy, opens at Site Gallery Sheffield on Friday 17 February 2017. Penny McCarthy: Folder explores the framework of meaning that is produced when representations of material forms are transported between the […]

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Walking Cities: London – Features chapter by Dr Sharon Kivland

Sharon Kivland Walking Cities book launch

Walking Cities: London launches at the Showroom Gallery on Wednesday 15 March, and features a chapter titled Freud in London by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Fine Art, Dr Sharon Kivland. Through bringing together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers Walking Cities: London considers how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of […]

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Professorship awarded to Esther Johnson

Professor Esther Johnson

We are pleased to announce that Esther Johnson was recently awarded a Professorship and now holds the title of Professor of Film and Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University. Esther is an artist and filmmaker working with moving image, audio and photography. She was awarded an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and is a Fellow of The […]

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