exhibition 19 Jul 2024

thresholds between different worlds

Venue Sheffield Cathedral, Moor Market, central Library, Winter gardens
Description

Doors represent not just entryways and new beginnings, they are also barriers, boundaries in wood, and thresholds between different worlds and different states of being. A physical crossroads. Transition. A choice made out of a desire to move or change your environment. They are portals to what was and who was, a kind of promise. The doors that can open will close and the doors that close will be used for art.

a black and white photograph showing a birds eye view of Park Hill Flats

These doors are resourced, repurposed, reclaimed from the fractured archive of Park Hill flats, which stand guard over the valley of Sheffield’s city centre. Park Hill’s architects imagined lives of space and community. Built between 1957 and 1961, they were meant to replace the ‘slums’ that survived from the Victorian era. As with most ambition, it soon realises its own limits. The flats, Grade 2 listed, had to redesign.

With thanks to ‘The Streets In The Sky’ and Urban Splash for their generous donation.

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exhibition 19 Jul 2024

Sheffield Central Library

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Sheffield Central Library is a much loved public space in the city centre. It is the single largest general lending and reference collection in the city's library service, and puts on a range of children and family activities throughout the year. It is also home to the Graves Art Galley, which displays a dazzling array of historic and contemporary visual art.

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Sheffield Cathedral

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It brings us great pleasure that Sheffield Cathedral will be one of five venues to host the DWYS exhibition. Several of our commissioned artworks will be on show in the Cathedral's Shrewsbury Chapel. Through a dynamic combination of physical display and audio installation, we bring together pieces that spark critical conversations on the connection between faith, power and memorialisation.

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Winter Garden

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Sheffield's impressive multi award-winning Winter Garden is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years and is the largest urban glasshouse anywhere in Europe, home to more than 2500 plants from all around the world. It is a much loved space in Sheffield, often in perpetual motion as friends and families pass through to visit the various retail units and exhibition spaces inside and nearby.

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