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

23/11/2023

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 […]

HANDY: Yorkshire Art Space: 23 – 27 September 2023

14/09/2023

Handy (1) What is touched when we encounter touchscreens? Our relationship with technology, particularly smartphones, resonates through the entirety of our senses and bodies. The manner of carriage, grip, and even the specific regions of skin contact exert influence. Embedded within the concept of Screen Time lies a comprehension of fragmented and repeated periods of attention as a performative touch […]

‘For Whom the Mountains Pray’- Art Exhibition 14-26 August 2023 – Helen Blejerman

22/06/2023

For Whom the Mountains Pray Art exhibition by Helen Blejerman 14th–26th August 2023 (Monday to Saturday, 10:00-16:00) Post Hall, Department of Art & Design, Old Head Post Office Fitzalan Square, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2AY For Whom the Mountains Pray proposes the simulation of a mythological future. A world where the bodies of murdered women buried under the mountains’ […]

PhD Student Emma Bolland’s ‘Instructions from Light’ published

03/02/2023

Instructions from Light - Emma Bolland (Joan Publishing copyright)

Part of alumni Culture and Creativity Research Institute (CCRI)/Art, Design and Media (ADMRC) PhD student Emma Bolland’s doctoral work is now available in published form. The book, Instructions from Light formed the practice submission of Emma Bolland’s SHU PhD, titled Scripting Silence: The Expanded Screenplay as Present-traumatic Language (completed 2022). The PhD was in the area of fine art, art writing and artists translation, […]

‘a sukkah for our times’: City centre installation by PhD researcher Max Munday and local Jewish community

10/10/2022

2022-10 'a sukkah for our times' Drawing - Image credit Max Munday

a sukkah for our times Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 October 2022 Sheffield Winter Garden You can hear audio of this text being read out here: a sukkah for our times audio. a sukkah for our times is an art installation and event-space created for the festival of Sukkot by PhD researcher Max Munday and members of the local Jewish community, including Ken […]

When The Space Becomes the Screen: A Research Laboratory and Public Outcome

14/07/2022

This summer the CCRI doctoral cohort have been given access to the SHU managed project space at S1 Artspace at Park Hill. We have collectively curated a series of experiments and projects individually and collaboratively under the title ‘Whispering, shouting, touching, passing’. Within this programme a smaller group of researchers (Helen Blejerman, Roland van Dierendonck, Marika Grasso, Jackie Leaver, Tim […]

Researcher Blog by PhD candidate Sophie Parkes-Nield: Folklore on Screen 2019

17/10/2019

Centre for Contemporary Legend - The Team

About the author Sophie Parkes-Nield is a doctoral researcher in C3RI’s Centre for Contemporary Legend where she has recently embarked on a practice-based PhD. Sophie brings together creative writing and folklore in her doctoral research which will focus on British calendar customs. Sophie will travel throughout Britain to witness traditional customs and to interview local people about why they take part […]

Hallam Guild – Research Methods @ SHU launch meeting – Wednesday 06 February 2019

25/01/2019

Everyone is invited to the launch meeting for the new Hallam Guild group ‘Research Methods @ SHU’. The first meeting will take place on Wednesday 6th February 2019, 1-2pm, in the Owen Building, Room 1025, City Campus, Sheffield Hallam University. The purpose of the group is to create a community of practice and a network of educators, researchers and students […]