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Platform 21: Lea Torp Nielsen

  Feminine movement, bodily becomings: Lea Torp Nielsen’s watery encounters with sound and materiality  Water moves, changes and contorts; it is – and always has been – a fundamentally feminine entity, a divine force just like the earth, that situates, grounds, holds and evokes calm. Metonymically and temporally – the world is watery: it sustains … Continued

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Platform 21: Jan Hopkins

Technological obscurities, personal complexities: Jan Hopkins’ meditation on how the self and mechanical intertwine. How technology and emotions interweave and inform our lives is not always readily apparent, yet within a technologically driven world, its affective response is inevitable. People share the most joyous and horrifying news via Twitter; the intimate lives of others are … Continued

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Platform 21: Curator Tour 

Join the exhibiting artists and members of the Site Gallery programme team for a tour of Platform 21.  Presented across three venues in Sheffield, Platform 21 presents 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 is presented at Site, Yorkshire … Continued

19 Feb 2022

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Platform 21: BSL Exhibition Tour

The walk is led by Deaf BSL user, architect and art facilitator Martin Glover, who will guide you through the exhibition and venues. Watch Martin’s introduction video below. Platform 21 is a group show presented across three venues in Sheffield, featuring artists Anisa Nuh-Ali, Lea Torp Nielsen, Rachael Colley, Jan Hopkins and Seiko Kinoshita. It is a … Continued

12 Feb 2022 12:00pm

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Platform 21 exhibition opens 21 January

Our next exhibition Platform 21 will open at Site, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects on Friday 21 January 2022, and run until 20 February 2022. The exhibition features the work of five Sheffield-based artists: Rachael Colley, Jan Hopkins, Seiko Kinoshita, Anisa Nuh-Ali and Lea Torp Nielsen. It presents an insight into their work developed during the first year of their two-year … Continued

10 Dec 2021 4:47pm

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Platform 21

Book your free joint ticket for Site Gallery and Yorkshire Artspace here. Presented across three venues in Sheffield, Platform 21 presents 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 is presented at Site, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects. Platform is an established artistic development … Continued

21 Jan 2022 – 20 Feb 2022

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Lauren Velvick: Platform 20 artist texts

Site Gallery commissioned writer, curator and artist Lauren Velvick to produce a series of critical texts on the Platform 20 exhibition, which took place at Site, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects in August 2021. The exhibition featured new work from James Clarkson, Conor Rogers, Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas and Joanna Whittle. Throughout the following week, … Continued

15 Nov 2021

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Platform 20: Conor Rogers

Conor Rogers often refers to the substrates of his work; the grounds upon which his ideas grow and feed. An important part, although not the only part, of the artist’s creative project is to explore and represent his own background. Note, however, that Rogers refers to substratum in the plural, signalling an interest in how … Continued

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Platform 20: James Clarkson

Sometimes art can function as escapism; a way to soothe away the daily frustrations and humiliations that characterise working life, or simply a distraction from overwhelming worries. James Clarkson’s new work that was shown at Bloc Projects in the solo exhibition K-House certainly has a soothing quality. Perhaps better described as numbing or anesthetizing, here … Continued

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Platform 20: Joanna Whittle

Joanna Whittle describes there being a ‘seasickness’ to her work, that is, the feeling brought on by continual motion, and by a prolonged lack of solid ground. More than physiological motion sickness, it is also important that the sea is specified here, because there is something specific and precarious about floating atop an unknowable void, … Continued

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