Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work by Esther Johnson and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. Kirchin, an English drummer and composer, is known as a pioneer of musique concrète and has been described by Brian Eno as, “a founding father of ambient”. Hull: City of Cinema is a […]
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Esther Johnson‘s Hinterland (2002), and new commission Retreating the Line (2017), have been selected for Somewhere Becoming Sea curated by Film and Video Umbrella as part of Hull 2017 UK City of Culture. 5 April 2017 – 17 June 2017 Somewhere Becoming Sea Humber Street Gallery, Hull HU1 1TU Somewhere Becoming Sea reflects how expanses of water that divide countries […]
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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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Esther Johnson, Professor of Film in ADRC, has announced a series of screenings across the UK of her new poetic documentary film Asunder which tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. Asunder has a soundtrack composed by […]
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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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Asunder is a film by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Media Arts Dr Esther Johnson, telling the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. Using […]
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Hinterland, Dr Esther Johnson‘s 16mm artist film has been selected for an exhibition opening in April 2017, curated by Film and Video Umbrella for Hull’s new Humber Street Gallery. Focusing on an East Yorkshire community which live on the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, Hinterland asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes fatally threatened […]
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The People’s Echo is a specially produced newspaper by artist/filmmaker Esther Johnson and writer/filmmaker Debbie Ballin. The newspaper was made as a Christmas gift for visitors to their exhibition A share of a pensioner’s Christmas ‘Bonus’ held at the National Coal Mining Museum for England from 12 November 2016 – 18 January 2017. The newspaper is available for viewing online […]
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An extract from Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, a film by artist-filmmaker Esther Johnson, is to be streamed online by NOWNESS from 24 November 2016. NOWNESS is a global video channel and a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of every day. Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the […]
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Loitering with Intent – The Art and Politics of Walking in Manchester and Beyond is a group exhibition organised by the LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement), a Manchester-based collective interested in psychogeography and public space. This exhibition at the People’s History Museum features artist and filmmaker Esther Johnson‘s poetic documentary, ‘Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches’. Esther’s film uses oral […]
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