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Opening at S1 Artspace
Showcase pt 1: James Clarkson | Joe Cutts | Linny Venables
Tues 29 June, 6 - 8pm

To mark the completion of the 2010 S1 Bursary Studio programme, S1 Artspace presents SHOWCASE, two week long exhibitions presenting new work by six recent BA Fine Art graduates from Sheffield Hallam University. James Clarkson, Joe Cutts, Jim Howieson, Peter Martin, Emily Musgrave and Linny Venables were selected for the S1 Bursary Studio programme in January this year, a pilot scheme aimed at providing third year fine art students insight and experience of working within an artist-led studio environment during the final stages of their BA programme, as well as opportunities to benefit from mentoring and professional support. More

Transmission: HOSPITALITY conference
Art & Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 July

An interdisciplinary conference that will address the relation between the modes of analysis and communication for comprehending art, through discussions on the ethics and politics of hospitality and the positions of host, stranger, and friend. Hospitality speaks about art through a form that responds to how art is encountered, discussed and, perhaps most importantly, received. Costs and bookings: Standard rate: £190 / Student rate: £160 - For more details and to book go to http://www.transmission.uk.com or email transmission@shu.ac.uk. More

Opening event at Access Space
Lost in Space - Chris Shelton
Friday 2 July 5.30 – 8.00pm

An exhibition involving digital drawings and a photocopier. Work inspired by surrealism, pop art, neo impressionism and Japanese sumi-e art. The exhibition works on ideas of ownership and hopes to encourage generosity as a response to societies current problems which can be seen to stem from mean spiritedness and greed. This is an experimental exhibition influenced by the open source ideal. A photocopier is part of the exhibition and viewers will be encouraged to copy their favourite artwork and take it away (for free).More

Interactive art at The Red House
Matter: ma4
Thursday 8 July

You are invited to contribute to a sound installation. Matter is a brand new event that will be held on a monthly basis; It is an opportunity to meet other people who want to make ‘progressive’ music in Sheffield. Encouraging collaboration amongst its members and across different artforms, Matter will also bring together individuals and groups to work on larger projects. Through a series of unique events, Matter will provide a much-needed platform for original audio-visual creative talent in Sheffield. More

Opening event at Access Space
Inside TRAK - Art and neuroscience come together
Friday 9 July 5.30-8.00pm

An exhibition which teaches audience how their brains work by letting them peer inside a robot’s head as it watches them watching it. This installation is a result of collaboration with new-media artist Dora Militaru, and is based on a computer model of the oculomotor system, developed by members of the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group in Sheffield University’s department of Psychology. The group uses computational methods to help refine and develop our understanding of brain function. This particular model is part of the REVERB project – ‘Reverse Engineering the Vertebrate Brain’. It aims to answer the question, ‘how do we decide where to look?’ by simulating those regions of the brain known to be involved in choosing between different possible actions. More

Opening at Bank Street Arts
End of residency show: Susannah Gent
Friday 9 July 7-9pm

New video, sculptural and installation work by Susannah Gent. During the course of the year long residency at BSA artist Susannah Gent has developed her work in taxidermy and incorporated experimental documentary film into her current practise. Broadly the work to date explores several themes, some having developed out of the ‘Sentimental Rabbit Suicide’ project; the use of preserved animal skin as a recycled material, the impact of something once living on an audience and sentimentality surrounding our view of animals and children. More

Opening at S1 Artspace
Showcase: pt 2: Jim Howieson | Peter Martin | Emily Musgrave
Tues 13 July, 6 - 8pm

To mark the completion of the 2010 S1 Bursary Studio programme, S1 Artspace presents SHOWCASE, two week long exhibitions presenting new work by six recent BA Fine Art graduates from Sheffield Hallam University. James Clarkson, Joe Cutts, Jim Howieson, Peter Martin, Emily Musgrave and Linny Venables were selected for the S1 Bursary Studio programme in January this year, a pilot scheme aimed at providing third year fine art students insight and experience of working within an artist-led studio environment during the final stages of their BA programme, as well as opportunities to benefit from mentoring and professional support. The individual exhibitions include sculpture, sound, video and collage works. More

Art and Scientist’s Talks at Access Space
Inside TRAK - Art and neuroscience come together
Friday 16 July 2-4pm

14.00-14.45: Artist Talk by Dora Militaru
14.45-15.15: “One city, two cultures” by Adam Sylvester
15.15-16.00: “How do you decide where to look next? From eye-and-brain to camera-and-robot” Kevin Gurney
A day programme of talks to accompany Inside TRAK, an exhibition which teaches audience how their brains work by letting them peer inside a robot’s head as it watches them watching it. Art and neuroscience come together in ‘Inside TRAK’, an exhibition atvAccess Space in Sheffield which hopes to demonstrate just how much is really understood about brain function. More

Opening event at Clock Tower Gallery
Drawn
Friday 16 July 6–7.30pm

An exhibition of contemporary drawing at The Clocktower Gallery in Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital. ‘Drawn’ features work by 22 artists, including recent graduates, emerging and established artists, illustrators and designers. It is a celebration and exploration of the medium of Drawing as it continually reinvents itself with new media and ideas. Work in the exhibition has been made with the traditional pencil, pen and ink, pastel, charcoal, designer fine-liner pens, etc yet fundamentally remains Drawing. More

Site Gallery new website
www.sitegallery.org

Site Gallery's new, improved website goes live soon and includes a range of media and video features giving access to the gallery's archive of recordings and films including artist's talks and interviews, conferences, performances and artists' film and video commissions.

Glitterati, Steven Barrett
Until 3 Jul 2010

Steven Barrett creates images of celebrities and scenes from gay life entirley from multi-coloured glitter. This exhibition has been timed to coincide with Sheffield Pride 2010 which will take place later in June. The artist is huge fan of popular culture and describes his influences as ‘anything over the top’. The exhibition, Glitterati, brings together new work with some of his favourite images of the last five years. The images in this show include depictions of street culture, Gay Pride, Marilyn Monroe and, of course, Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. more

Showcase Part 1- New work from S1 Bursary Studio Artists 2010
Until 4 Jul 2010

To mark the completion of the 2010 S1 Bursary Studio programme, S1 Artspace presents SHOWCASE, two week long exhibitions presenting new work by six recent BA Fine Art graduates from Sheffield Hallam University. James Clarkson, Joe Cutts, Jim Howieson, Peter Martin, Emily Musgrave and Linny Venables were selected for the S1 Bursary Studio programme in January this year, a pilot scheme aimed at providing third year fine art students insight and experience of working within an artist-led studio environment during the final stages of their BA programme, as well as opportunities to benefit from mentoring and professional support. The individual exhibitions include sculpture, sound, video and collage works. more

Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
Transmission Off Air
1 Jul - 11 Jul 2010

An exhibition coinciding with the Transmission: HOSPITALITY conference, which is taking place in Sheffield Hallam University’s Furnival Building Thursday 1 July – Saturday 3 July (exhibition continues until 11th July). The exhibition aims to expand the format of the conference by opening the gallery as an alternative space for thinking about the themes proposed by the ongoing Transmission lecture series and generate a dialogue between the conference, the artists and the audience. more

Lost in Space
Chris Shelton
3 - 30 July

An exhibition involving digital drawings and a photocopier. In a crisis caused by greed, please photocopy the art and take it away for free. Work inspired by surrealism, pop art, neo impressionism and Japanese sumi-e art. The exhibition works on ideas of ownership and hopes to encourage generosity as a response to societies current problems which can be seen to stem from mean spiritedness and greed. more

Kitten Face presents
Transform! Sam Bunn
Starts 3 July

Sam Bunn has been examining The Old Sweet Shop as a place to make art since early 2010. The resultant site specific transformations tackle the commodity in a confrontational manner that challenges the viewer or customer. Bunn employs a conceptual approach which, through its avoidance of visual representation, hints at problems he has encountered with traditional art making in this context. More

End of residency show
Susannah Gent
6 - 30 July

New video, sculptural and installation work by Susannah Gent. During the course of the year long residency at BSA artist Susannah Gent has developed her work in taxidermy and incorporated experimental documentary film into her current practise. Broadly the work to date explores several themes, some having developed out of the ‘Sentimental Rabbit Suicide’ project; the use of preserved animal skin as a recycled material, the impact of something once living on an audience and sentimentality surrounding our view of animals and children. more

New public art installed at Sheffield’s Crucible

The public art commissions by internationally renowned visual artist Sarah Staton and theatre director Madani Younis at Sheffield’s newly refurbished Crucible are now complete and fully unveiled to the public. Sheffield Theatres commissioned the artists during the Crucible’s redevelopment to work alongside architects Burrell Foley Fischer to create a series of pieces that would enhance and animate the theatre’s unique public spaces.. more

Inside TRAK - Art and neuroscience come together
10 - 30 July

An exhibition which teaches audience how their brains work by letting them peer inside a robot’s head as it watches them watching it. Art and neuroscience come together in ‘Inside TRAK’, an exhibition atvAccess Space in Sheffield which hopes to demonstrate just how much is really understood about brain function. More

Showcase Pt 2:
New work from S1 Bursary Studio Artists 2010
14 - 18 July

To mark the completion of the 2010 S1 Bursary Studio programme, S1 Artspace presents SHOWCASE, two week long exhibitions presenting new work by six recent BA Fine Art graduates from Sheffield Hallam University. James Clarkson, Joe Cutts, Jim Howieson, Peter Martin, Emily Musgrave and Linny Venables were selected for the S1 Bursary Studio programme in January this year, a pilot scheme aimed at providing third year fine art students insight and experience of working within an artist-led studio environment during the final stages of their BA programme, as well as opportunities to benefit from mentoring and professional support.More

Drawn
Starts 19 July

An exhibition of contemporary drawing. ‘Drawn’ features work by 22 artists, including recent graduates, emerging and established artists, illustrators and designers. It is a celebration and exploration of the medium of Drawing as it continually reinvents itself with new media and ideas. Work in the exhibition has been made with the traditional pencil, pen and ink, pastel, charcoal, designer fine-liner pens, etc yet fundamentally remains Drawing. More

Chronicles
Haris Epaminonda

For her first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery, Site Gallery is pleased to present newly commissioned video work from the Cypriot born artist Haris Epaminonda. Epaminonda works in a variety of media from collage to installation, with her videos being composed out of disparate found film footage as well as the artist’s own filmed sequences. The artist’s moving images are in many instances overlapping or juxtaposed with one another so that threads of potential meaning (political utopias, gender, cultures of collecting) weave in and out of each other and thus evoke a dreamlike distant world. More

Watercolour in Britain: Tradition and Beyond
The Great British Art Debate

Continuing the Great British Art Debate at Museums Sheffield this summer, Watercolour in Britain: Tradition and Beyond will explore the remarkable diversity of a truly British art form. Featuring significant and rarely seen works from many artists, from contemporary artists Chris Ofili and Anish Kapoor, to JMW Turner and William Blake, the exhibition will look at watercolour’s iconic status in our cultural heritage and those artists who have pushed the boundaries of its potential. More

Teatopia
Starts 1 July

Jeremy Deller, Mona Hatoum and a selection of other contemporary artists join a host of artists, makers and designers in Teatopia, a new craft and design exhibition which delights in our national obsession with tea. Tea-drinking has linked British culture with many other countries and cultures throughout history and these connections are still vibrant today. As the habits and rituals associated with the drink have changed alongside our lifestyles, designers have responded by producing new tea wares and design solutions to make the process easier, or simply more elegant. This exhibition includes historic objects such as fine ceramics and metalwork from Sheffield’s own collections alongside iconic contemporary art, design and craft pieces.More

New artwork for the facade of Yorkshire Artspace

Robert Casselton Clark, an artist who has had a studio with Yorkshire Artspace since the 1980s, created this ambitious new artwork during an 8 week residency in February /April 2009. The characters constructed by Casselton Clark were conceived as being the supportive phantom friends of various individual fictional and factual artists as they go about their daily creative struggle and play in their studio. More