Exhibition Launch Event

0	SHEFFIELD: Soft Ground
P	Monday 17th June, 2024
N	5:30pm

SHEFFIELD: Soft Ground

Monday 17th June, 2024

5:30pm

Event information

Join us for an evening of exploration across art, photography and more as we meet the artists behind a wide array of inspiring pieces exhibiting at this years festival.

There will be drinks, nibbles, music and more so make sure you nab yourself a free ticket and get involved!

Meet the artists:

If Henna Could Speak

Free not Free by Jack Owen

Created with people seeking asylum and living in South Yorkshire, Free, Not Free explores partial status at a moment in time, the experience of forced migration and the feeling of life being on hold, opening up new channels for self representation in the campaign against the hostile environment.

Local Foreigners by Maryna Sulym

Local Foreigners is a documentary project created by Ukrainian photographer Maryna Sulym to dignify the image of migration.

It is a collection of personal stories and powerful photos of people who chose to make the UK their home.

The project shows the diversity and complexity of immigration.

In my own words and pictures by Dr Lois Orton

An exhibition of 'visual poems' created by Czech and Slovak Roma women living in South Yorkshire. The visual poems use words, drawings and other materials to explore these women's perspectives on life, health and illness.

Borders of Childhood by Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli

An exhibition of drawings by Venezuelan children exploring their experiences of forced migration and the asylum system.

Accompanying the drawings are analyses and reflections by Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli, whose research examines asylum and migration politics in Latin America.

Blurring the Edges by Dr Henry Staples

A installation exploring ‘social frontiers’ - sharp differences in the demographics of neighbouring communities - produced by Sheffield and Rotherham-based artists. Through visual art, sound, documentary and augmented reality this installation looks at how social frontiers affect life in Rotherham.