Well, it's been a while. But I'm back with three, yes three shows all opening on the weekend of the 2nd of September!
I am inviting you to all of them. Two are about 50 meters apart from each other so there are no excuses not to see both at the same time.
LANDMARK - Private View - Friday 2nd September, 6-8pm
3rd Sep – 1st Oct 2022, Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Persistence Works Gallery, Yorkshire Artspace, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS
Out & About - Sustainability Weekender (Unveiling of HOPES/FEARS sculpture)
03 Sep - 04 Sep 2022, 11am-6pm
Opposite Site Gallery & Showroom Workstation, Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BF
Middlethorpe Manor Sculpture Garden
3rd-4th & 10th-11th September 2022, 10:30 - 3:30pm
Middlethorpe Manor, Middlethorpe, York, YO23 2QB
Book your parking space here: https://bit.ly/3ApmoKm
I am really excited to share these with you and I hope you are able to visit. If you are, let me know.
LANDMARK
3rd September – 1st October 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Private View - Friday 2nd September, 6-8pm
Landmark reflects on a year-long project by artists Christopher Jarratt and Emilie Taylor and a group of eleven people navigating their recovery or changes to their drug or alcohol use.
The exhibition, taking place during National Recovery Month, highlights the importance of place, community and belonging and imbues our urban environment with the magic of folklore and the weight of tradition. Handmade flags and ceramic flasks, made using heritage craft techniques encourage us to reflect on how our personal journeys are part of the fabric of the city.
Landmark began as an exploration into the healing effects of heritage crafts both for individuals and for a city post-pandemic.
The flags are inspired by the pennants that would have hung from Sheffield Castle hundreds of years ago. They were created in response to sites in the city that hold personal significance to the people who made them.
Digital reproductions of the flags will be displayed on paper and paste billboards throughout the city during September, with whole site takeovers at Sidney Street and Castlegate. The posters can be scanned to gain deeper insight into the significance of each site, the exhibition and to find out about recovery services in the city. Maps, designed by Peter & Paul, showing all the locations, will be available from the exhibition.
To christen the new community Kiln Yard facility at Yorkshire Artspace, slip decorated Pilgrim Flasks were baked and then used to serve herbal elixirs in a medieval banquet. Staged beneath the flags, the feast was an opportunity to bring people together to think about recovery and our city.
A film by Shared Programme documents the project and will be screened in the gallery as part of the exhibition.
This project has been a partnership with Project 6 who provide services for people affected by substance use.
Out & About Sustainability Weekender
Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 6pm in CIQ Square,
Opposite the Site Gallery & Showroom Workstation
Brown Street
Sheffield City Centre
S1 2BF
I'm really excited to be showing alongside such stellar line up, including work, workshops and sounds from:
Leigh de Vries, Sarah Waterhouse, Social Pickle, Wet Patch, Rasheeqa Ahmad (Hedge Herbs), McCloy + Muchemwa / Mitre & Mondays colab & Montez Press Radio.
New sculptural commission alert!
HOPES/FEARS
Highlighting disparate feelings and emotions around the climate crisis.
Powered by the wind, the sculpture asks us to consider notions of sustainability and our relationship to nature. On one side, everything feels possible and we have the tools to change to be better, more harmonious passengers on Spaceship Earth, and within the blink of an eye, the challenge can seem too big and overwhelming to know where to start.
Limited edition prints and t-shirts that accompany the sculpture will be available to buy all weekend.
Don't miss out on the excellent line up of happenings, workshops and events happening all weekend and its all FREE to the public.
For full listings, head to @visitsheffield
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Out & About is generously supported by @sheffieldcitycouncil Economic Recovery Fund, and is led by a partnership between @sitegallery, @showroomworkstation, @yartspace and @blocprojects.
Middlethorpe Manor Sculpture Garden - Opening Weekends
Really honoured to have been asked to include TRADE ROUTES as part of Middlethorpe Manor's new Sculpture Garden curated by Matthew Jarratt.
Middlethorpe Manor Sculpture Gardens, features new and established artists from across Yorkshire and the North, the exhibition for our first open weekends will feature over 20 works of sculpture and installation.
On each open day, there are two slots, 10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-3:30pm. Numbers are limited due to carparking capacity.
BOOK HERE: https://bit.ly/3ApmoKm
Image: Sculpture by Sam Shendi, onsite at Middlethorpe Manor
There's a lot of information there! I'm really looking forward to seeing the end of summer out in a flourish and I can't wait to meet new and old friends at these events and share our experiences of the works and environments they are in.
Best,
Christopher