Bloc is a studio complex and gallery space based in Sheffield city centre. This website tells you all you need to know about us, including information about our programme, such as past and current exhibitions, new commissions on the billboard, and the Bloc Assembly events. It also tells you about artists that are based in the studios.

Gallery open: Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm (exhibition times only)

Next at Bloc:

Open-Up Sheffield

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A number of Bloc’s studio artists will be opening their doors to the public over the next two weekends as part of Open-Up Sheffield 2008. Artworks include painting, drawing, photography, installation and works in other media.

The gallery will also be open for the five days, with tea, coffee and homemade cakes . A number of artworks and multiples will be for sale including postcards by ‘the little artists’, kid acne t-shirts, and prints and paintings by studio artists. Proceeds go towards sustaining Bloc Projects’ programme.

OPEN: 26th 27th April; 3rd 4th 5th May
11am – 5pm

Assembly#9:

My Dog’s Got No Nose…

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Friday, April 25, 2008
7:00pm - 9:30pm

Sylvester Space, Sylvester Street

Bloc Assembly is a series of one-off events taking place twice a year, offering artists a platform to show or perform experimental ideas or work in progress in any medium.

Titled ‘My Dog’s Got No Nose…’, this event brings together a number of works relating to the theme of smell, and is guest curated by artists’ group utk to mark the 10th anniversary of their first public show.

Artists include: Paul Evans, Jon Wakeman, James Brown, Lesley Guy, Neil Webb, Sean Williams, Matt Butt, Dominic Mason, Katie Davies, Mathew Harrison, Liz Hall, Tony Kemplen, Jane Mellor, Bev Stout and utk

Meet for celebratory drinks at the Rutland Arms after the event.

more info: www.utk.org.uk

Billboard

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4 April - 16 May

Sarah Jane Palmer presents handmade prints which are pasted up as decorative wallpaper. On close inspection it emerges that the pattern is made up of couples engaged in erotic acts.

Discourse

The Teleportation of Neil Webb – in this recently commissioned text, Steve Dutton responses to The Stars in Us All, Neil Webb’s installation created for Bloc Space last November.

Neil Webb uses metaphors of movement when describing his work and he has described this most recent piece at Bloc Space as ‘a kind of cosmic travel’. Instead of the scopic, the principle sense here is aural.

The sound is loud, very loud, and it fills the space with something unfocussed, lush and ambiguous. It is mostly electronic, spatial, sweeping and filmic.

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Space Hire

Bloc Space is available for hire.

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