‘Re-embroidering Blackwork: an unstitched coif & other works’ exhibition: 19-23 December 2023

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 […]

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Enough on our Plates exhibition: 13 October-27 November 2023

Senior 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 […]

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November 2023 – Updates from Judith Stewart & Patrick Wichert

The 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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LOOKDON’TLOOK exhibition: 17-19 November 2023

Image advertising an exhibition of site-specific sound, video, performance and interactive artworks called LOOKDON'TLOOK. Image courtesy of Max Munday.

LOOKDON’TLOOK exhibition Friday 17 – Sunday 19 November 2023 Brown St Project (old Food Hall) 62 Brown Street, S1 2BS FREE – All Welcome Please note that work on the first floor does not have lift access to it The exhibition temporarily takes over and responds to the empty building opposite Site Gallery on Brown Street. Using sound, video, performance, […]

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Apus – Carolyn Waudby

Apus cover, by Carolyn Waudby

A collection of 20 poems written by Carolyn Waudby and inspired by the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has been published as a chapbook by The Red Ceilings Press. The poetry arose from a multi-arts project for Mexican Day of the Dead, organised by the author and SHU colleague Dr. Elizabeth Uruchurtu. A week-long series of public events in […]

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