For the forthcoming BLOC Billboards, COPY expands from the printed form to incorporate elements of live action or event, presenting new works by Nathan Walker and Victoria Gray of O U I Performance.
COPY / / ? DOUBLE portrays the lens of a small glass sphere, held between thumb and index finger, through which we see [...]
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COPY // ? DOUBLE - Bloc Billboards
18Apr12 –
EDIFICE
17Apr12 –
17th - 22nd April
Opening Event 17th April, 7-9pm
Kristian Barnes
Paul Barlow
Mark Riddington
Jonathan Wynn
Overlooked materials are re-contextualised in and as artworks throughout this exhibition. The four artists use process led decisions with works that extend from the gallery space and out into the architecture of Bloc Studios, exploring the relationship between making and showing.
http://paul-barlow.com/
http://kakeart.tumblr.com/
http://markriddington.wordpress.com/
http://jonathankwynn.wordpress.com/
Slaven Gabric - Bloc Billboards
01Mar12 –
The new Billboard on Sylvester street will show work by Slaven Gabric. The photographic image was chosen from the series, Cemetery Short Cuts.
slaven.info
Michael Day - Sequences
27Feb12 –
Private view
Friday 9th March 7-9pm
9th - 24th March
For his first solo show in Sheffield, Michael Day will be exhibiting new works created during a recent guest artist residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway.
His recent work has been concerned with the interruptive potential of technology: how digital media constantly demand attention, and how the interruptions [...]
BLOC SHOP
08Dec11 –
16th, 17th and 18th December
12-6pm
If you are struggling to find interesting and original Christmas gifts or want to sell some of your work then get down to Bloc Projects!
We will be holding an art sale in the gallery on the 16, 17 and 18th of December. There will be mulled wine, snacks and festive cheer [...]
Samantha Donnelly - Workroom
06Nov11 –
Samantha Donnelly, Workroom, Private View Friday 4th November 7-9pm
‘Workroom’
2011
380 cm (l) x 300 cm (d) x 194 cm (h)
Mirror, wood, laminated wood, steel, spray paint, grey-board, acrylic eye-shadow brush, fiberglass mannequin arms, polyester wadding, nylon tights, collage using original inks from publication, dressmakers pins, perspex, faux-leather belts, glazed stoneware ceramic, plaster, pigment, fabric, found brooch, [...]
The Machine by Georges Perec
24Oct11 –
Christopher Hall & Alexander Kelly
Proudly Present
The Machine
by Georges Perec
The World Premier of The English Translation
by Ulrich Schonherr
October 25th, 8pm
Tickets: 0114 256 5567.
Part of Off The Shelf Festival of Reading and Writing 2011
georgesperecthemachine.blogspot.com
Dominique Hurth - the viewing at the same in perspective
02Oct11 –
fog grey sea
or mist green
sun-silver water
or storm salt
In her solo exhibition the viewing at the same in perspective, Dominique Hurth investigates the possible narrative enclosed in a particular form in space. From the oscillation of perspectives offered by a viewing device that manually shifted from a paper sketch from the 1930s into a three-dimensional replica, [...]
Assembly 11: Last Requests
28Sep11 –
Opening Event Friday 30th September 7pm - 9pm
Open Saturday 1st 12pm - 6pm
In an unrestrained setting, over 20 Sheffield based artists will show, works that they consider to be a guilty pleasure; something they have enjoyed making but have been unsure, or even ashamed about exhibiting. The art works are a last request, or desert [...]
The Thing and I – Becky Shaw
09Sep11 –
It seems that thinking about form and objects is OK again. In fact, the backlash against the alleged dematerialising practices of conceptualism is more of a mature wave now. Our thirst for the qualities of colour, surface, texture, space and specific materials makes us want to gulp it down, but we are still suspicious. Of [...]