October - December 2014
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Welcome
October is always a month of change and of new faces at Yorkshire Artspace and this year is no exception. We wish our Starter Studio Programme ‘graduates’ all the best in establishing their creative practices out in the big wide world, drawing, we hope, on the great start we have offered them over the past two years. We welcome the new Starter Studio Programme participants who will settle in to their studios and meet their mentors this month. And we find out how our Microgrants are impacting on communities across the city. This year our Starting Out course, designed around the needs of these emerging artists and makers, will be available free on line to all through Studio54 where you can join us for the whole 13 sessions or just choose those most relevant to your needs. We seem to say hello to new faces almost weekly at Exchange Place Studios where we now have a creative community of 49 artists and makers and just a dozen or so studios left. Come and meet them at our annual Open Studios Weekend in November alongside artists at Persistence Works and Manor Oaks Studios. If you can’t wait until then the second Pop up Shop created by the Exchange Place Studios artists is open this very weekend. You can find out what our new neighbours, the good folk of Castlegate, think about changes to this historic area of Sheffield in our ReMake Castlegate project, part of the hugely successful Festival of the Mind. And at harvest time what could be more appropriate than Emilie Taylor’s Harvest Jugs, the result of her year-long residency between two contrasting estates, The Manor and Chatsworth. |
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Open Studios
This November we expect over 100 of our professional artists and makers to open their Sheffield studios to the public. Come along and join us for this free event. There will be pop up cafes at Persistence Works and Exchange Place Studios and the farm shop and cafe at Manor Oaks Studios will be open.
The event runs from Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd November. Click here for more information on venues and times.
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Studio 54: FREE courses
We are very excited to be launching our new Starting Out business development courses for 2014/15 via our online Studio 54 platform. This FREE programme is split into 4 courses and made up of interactive webinars, blogposts, Q&A sessions and worksheets - you can sign up for all or select ones which are relevant. Programme runs Oct-Jan and will be delivered by artists and sector specialists. Click here for full details and sign up.
And for those who are not entirely sure if the above is for them we are offering a FREE face to face Taster Workshop Day on Monday 13th Oct 10.30-4pm at Exchange Place Studios. Delivered by Particia Van Den Akker of The Design Trust. It is packed with tips to help you kickstart your new creative business. Click here to find out more and to book your place.
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Pop Up Shop
After the success of the last event, the artists at Exchange Place studios are bringing us another Pop Up Shop. The launch event is on Thursday 2nd October 5-8pm, and it will then open Friday 3rd October to Sunday 5th October 10am-4pm. Click here to read more.
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Emilie Taylor: Artist in Residence
Emilie Taylor's year long residency across the two estates: Chatsworth and Manor, is coming to an end. The series of harvest jugs she has produced are currently being exhibited at Chatsworth House until 7th November. The work will then be on show at Manor Oaks on Sunday 23rd during our Open Studio Weekend, where there will also be a screening of Harvest Moon film, talk and informal discussion between 2-3pm also on 23rd Nov. Read more here.
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ReMake Castlegate
We were delighted that over 200 people joined us during our 10 day Festival of the Mind project at Exchange Place Studios to ReMake Castlegate. People who live, work in and visit the area were invited to help us build up our model designed to get people thinking about and engaging with the future of this area of the city. To read more about this project and view a short film, click here,
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Yorkshire Artspace Microgrants
This years Mircrogrant projects will be nearing their conclusions by the end of this year. Charlie Hill has been busy getting to know the gardens in Parsons Cross and the gardeners who create them read more here. Liz Von Graevenitz has been leading three Sheffield based artists as they collaborate on a body of work to exhibit and perform in Slovakia this month and has been reflecting on cultural intricacies during her summer break, read more here. And Paul Allender has continued his work with ex-soldier Stuart and his step-son Callum (pictured). Together they will be working on a triptych of glass focusing on WW1 & WW2 and other more recent conflicts and will be having an exhibition at Chapel Walk Gallery in January 2015, read more here.
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Starter Studio Programme: Introductions
We are delighted to welcome 4 new artists onto our Starter Studio Programmes, each has written an introductory blog; Ceramicists Mike Scown and Victoria Dawes, and Silversmiths Fennella Watson and Nina Rithalia are all taking up their studios this month. We wish them the best of luck and look forward to seeing how their work develops over this time.
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MADE NORTH Exhibitions
MADE NORTH gallery will be soon be hosting Sheffield Design Platform exhibition, recently returned from its successful showing at David Mellor's Sloane Square store during London Design Festival. The private view will take place Friday 15th October 6.30-8.30pm and the exhibition runs from Wednesday 8th October to Saturday 1st November. Following this will be Northern Futures. The next exhibition showing at MADE NORTH Gallery will focus on the very best of Northern design. It runs from 5th November to 20th December during usual gallery opening hours. The private view will be held on 20th November 6.30-8.30pm. Click here for more info.
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Yorkshire Artspace Artists' News & Workshop
Studio holder Michael Borkowsky would like to invite you to 'PLAY!' - an exhibition curated and devised by him and artist Sharon Mossbeck which looks at the theme of video games within a fine art context. The open event is 3rd October 5.30-8pm, and the exhibition will run from 3rd - 31st October. You can read more about this here.
Exchange Place Studio holder Lyn Carruthers will be running a creative card making workshop on Saturday 8th November 10am-4pm and several evening workshops: Tuesday evenings 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November 7-9.30pm. Places are limited, click here for more information.
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Other Opportunities & News
Harley Gallery
The Harley has announced its third open exhibition and is inviting artists to submit 2D, wall based work in any discipline. Full details and the Open Exhibition application from can be found here.
Haymanopolis
This exhibition celebrates friend, colleague and one time Yorkshire Artspace studio holder Keith Hayman, 7 – 16 October at the Workstation.
Woolgather
Call for Submissions - The commission is £150 for 150 artworks to fit into 45mm, 65mm or 85mm circular capsules. Click here for more details.
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