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Adebola Oyekanmi’s Black Icarus (2023) reimagines the Ancient Greek myth, mapping a new trajectory for its main character and subsequently producing an alternative conclusion – Oyekanmi’s tale is not cautionary, but emancipatory. Set in the year 2088, to commemorate the 111 year anniversary of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, the work is framed as an audiovisual … Continued

Product name: “Marseille click clack fabric sofa bed”Technical specification: “Height 90cm Width 189cm Depth 102cm”Price: “Twelve pounds”Product code: “483-0379” Unique Selling Proposition: “soft closing doors”Command: “Add inspiration to your daily life” These phrases, all drawn from the final printed edition of the Argos catalogue, reverberate across Yorkshire Artspace’s ground floor gallery. The catalogue from which Theresa … Continued

Encounters  Encounter #1: February 24, 1:22pm An obelisk made of metal, wires and static, Tyler Mellins’ Receiver (2022) was the first work I saw when I visited Site Gallery earlier this year for the Platform 22 group exhibition. The artist had erected a hollow tower within which he’d constructed three wooden shelves. Together they housed … Continued

Breadfruit  __________ Lungs The shadows are what I noticed first. In one of Kedisha Coakley’s works, two dark masses resembling lungs mirror each other. Hovering above them on a clear platform suspended from the air are two bronze objects. Seconds after looking at them, I knew what they were: slices of breadfruit. I smiled in … Continued

“I hate the idea of one person, particularly me, conducting a group”, Rian Treanor tells me during our video call in early July. We’re speaking about his participatory approach to his practice, which primarily involves electronic music and sound art. Our conversation focuses on Cumulative Entanglement (2023), his recent commission at Bloc Projects – even … Continued

Site Gallery’s young persons’ art collective Society of Explorers interviewed three of the Platform 22 artists, Adebola Oyekanmi, Theresa Bruno and Rian Treanor. Platform 22 is open 26 January – 26 February 2023 at Site Gallery, Bloc Projects and Yorkshire Artspace. Platform is an established artistic development programme at Site Gallery which allows artists to explore new ideas … Continued

Our next exhibition Platform 22 will open at Site, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects on Thursday 26 January 2023, and run until 26 February 2023. The exhibition features the work of five Sheffield-based artists: Adebola Oyekanmi, Kedisha Coakley, Rian Treanor, Theresa Bruno, Tyler Mellins. It presents an insight into their work developed during the first year of their two-year residency with … Continued

Exhibited across three venues, Platform 22 presented a fascinating insight into five artists’ work developed during the first year of their two-year residency with Sheffield’s visual arts organisations. The exhibition was presented at Site, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects. Site Gallery, Platform 22: Dark Echoes Adebola Oyekanmi, Kedisha Coakley and Tyler Mellins presented Dark Echoes, a group exhibition tracing echoes … Continued

Re-imagining History: Anisa Nuh-Ali’s multi-media archive of familial migration. The way in which archives represent, account, and encapsulate history is indicative of who is worthy of representation, and why. From what are and aren’t dominant narratives of marginalised histories in museums, libraries and institutions, the way we remember and give precedence to the past needs … Continued

Dreams, time, and fragility: the suspended temporality in the work of Seiko Kinoshita. Japanese-born Seiko Kinoshita is an artist who creates ephemeral and intuitive installations and sculptures. In her recent commission as part of Platform 21 at Site Gallery, she interweaves heritage, memory, time, fragility, and materiality through the installation Distant and video and sound … Continued

Curious culinary, strength in womanhood: Rachael Colley’s radical take on the eating and the body. Strength and softness, tender and resilient: these contrasting binaries are often overlooked when describing the myriad of ways women feel, act and make art. The pleasure and complexities found in eating and bodily experience, and the tensions between function and … Continued