Testing Ground is Yorkshire Artspaces’s residency programme at Exchange Place Studios, providing a supported and intensive period of creative experimentation for an artist based in Sheffield. I am delighted to be their 2025 artist in residence.
All I know is that this building feels sad. It sighs. Long sorrowful sighs that travel up and down the elevator shafts. The people who work here work hard long hours. They care. The building doesn’t seem to help. It’s […]
It’s been over a month since the fruit factory trip to Sheffield, and in the intervening weeks I’ve had time to reflect on many aspects of resilience in my own life and arts practice, not to mention assimilate the learning […]
S1 Artspace has been granted planning permission by Sheffield City Council to develop Park Hill Art Space, which will be one of the largest contemporary art galleries in the North of England.
We were at Sheffield Railway Station with our partner Penistone Line Partnership on Wednesday 15th May for Community Rail in the City 2019 The event was promoting the work of the local community rail partnerships and we had some copies […]
£1.2m site, which opened in 2015 and featured more than 40 studios, a café bar, a shop and a gallery, has closed due to financial issues.
A two-day summit at Sheffield’s Site Gallery and other venues across the city in November will feature artist-led labs and discussions around socially engaged practice, with the aim of launching a new biennale in 2020. Jack Hutchinson speaks to summit organiser RM Sánchez-Camus about the event.
After an 18-month closure for redevelopment including a major extension, the Sheffield gallery has trebled its public areas and created a new 262m² gallery. Amelia Crouch reports as it reopens with the group exhibition ‘Liquid Crystal Display’.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: new works by Karen Cunningham in Dumfriesshire, Damien Meade’s paintings based on clay maquettes in London, William Copley’s mail art project in Sheffield, and Jenny Saville’s portraits in Edinburgh.
The new director of MIMA will join the gallery from Sheffield’s Site Gallery where she is currently artistic director.
Sheffield-based artists Paul Salt and Susan Shaw have been making books together for more than 15 years. For the latest in her series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman celebrates their approach to the format which sees them responding to natural and urban environments to create unique pieces or small editions.
This year’s John Ruskin Prize celebrates the ‘artist as polymath’, with a shortlist of 26 artists and makers.
With work planned to commence in April, Sheffield’s Site Gallery is embarking on a £2.7m expansion programme that will see it extend into a neighbouring building.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘More and Better’ award will enable a four-year project of commissions with local, national and international artists making new work alongside communities of young people from Sheffield.
The fifth edition of the Sheffield Fringe festival at Bloc Projects features work by more than 35 artists and questions the objectification of the ‘real’. Chris Sharratt finds out more from curator Minou Norouzi.
S1 Artspace has announced more details of it planned relocation to Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate, following last week’s budget announcement of £1 million of government funding for the scheme.
Arts Council England funding will support three-year project to develop contemporary visual art produced in Sheffield.
Botanical inspiration for synthetic sculptures
