Exhibition

In the Open, Sheffield:
 collaborative artworks around place, landscape and environment

6 Sep 2017 – 28 Sep 2017

Regular hours

Wednesday
10:00 – 16:00
Thursday
10:00 – 16:00
Friday
10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 16:00

Cost of entry

Free

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 collaborative artworks around place, landscape and environment

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All the work in this two-venue exhibition has been made by at least two collaborators across a wide range of disciplines to explore ideas around place, ecology and environment.

About

Air pollution, fracking, the cutting down of trees – complex and controversial environmental issues are everywhere at the moment. How do we understand a place in a time of accelerating environmental change? How can we work together to respond? Do artists have anything to show us about the potential of collaboration?

In The Open is an exhibition of work by over 60 artists from around the world taking place at the SIA Gallery and Bank Street Arts from 6 to 28 September that aims to explore these questions.

The art on display is a variety of media – artists’ books, paintings, sculptures, photographs, object installations and videos – but each work has been produced in a collaborative process by at least two different artists. Some artists have worked together for years, others have paired up specifically for this exhibition. All of them respond to ideas about landscape, place, ecology and environment.

A wide variety of locations are considered, from the former Watt’s cutlery building in Sheffield to the Mississippi Delta, from wetlands to moorlands, from a coal mine in Wales to data-mined simulations of extreme weather in a future Ireland, from disused canals in Lincolnshire to the river Ouse passing through York City Centre, from gardens in Los Angeles to wildflower meadows on Uist, from Singapore’s rainforest to the Langsett reservoir, from stones to sticks to mud to mark to bark to beak to bits and bytes and back.

There are collaborations that use technology to facilitate long-distance conversation and collaborations, where the artists have gone on walks together from their back doors to a local field. Artists have undertaken archaeological excavations, plunged into freezing waters, lived for three days down a lead mine, followed the ghost of William Wordsworth up Snowdon, cut patterns into heather. They’ve trespassed, got lost, gathered together and set down.

Artistic techniques include: audio recording, big data, cutting, dyeing, exquisite corpse, frottage, gleaning, hanging, illustrating, jujitsu, kerning, lacing, mapping, note taking, ordering, programming, quilling, repeating, sticking, typing, uttering, vanishing, weeding, xerography, zen.

The exhibition opens at 7pm on 6 September with a free poetry reading by 13 poets from the UK, USA and Australia at Bank Street Arts, curated by Electric Arc Furnace.

For more information, check out the online catalogue at http://land2.leeds.ac.uk/in-the-open

CuratorsToggle

Judith Tucker

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Steve Baker

Rebecca Thomas

Ann Fisher-Wirth

Kevin Greenfield

Barbara Howey

Katy Ewing

John Bowers

Sheila Mullen

Thomas A Clark

Gail Dickerson

Min-Wei Ting

Natalie Joelle

Jon Wrigley

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Steven Hitchins

Camilla Nelson

Lucie Winterson

Harriette Yarrington

Jan Johnson

Louise K Wilson

Laura Donkers

Sean Martin

Rachel Hosein Nisbet

Jem Southam

Gavin Maughfling

Barbara Cummings

Inge Panneels

Linda Ingham

Trevor Borg

Amy Cutler

Clare Charnley

Filippa Dobson

Mary Modeen

Andrew Jeffrey

Kim Anno

Christine Mackey

Iain Biggs

Diane Howse

Ruth O'Callaghan

Clare Davies

Barry Snaith

David Walker Barker

Mark Pajak

Peter Matthews

Peter Matthews

Evelyn O'Malley

Abigail Goodman

Chris Taylor

Andrea Thoma

Kayla Parker

Kayla Parker

Deborah Gardner

Paul Wilson

Brian Lewis

Carole Webster

Nick Triplow

Anthony Catania

Joshua Scammell

Harriet Tarlo

David Power

Alan Smith

Emma Bolland

Laura-Gray Street

Judith Tucker

Caitlin Stobie

Veronica Vickery

Veronica Vickery

Christine Bauemler

Bethan Hughes

gillian hobson

Laurie Clark

Peter Jaeger

Martina O'Brien

Eirini Boukla

Adrian Evans

Jane le Besque

Anna Mace

Dan Eltringham

Bethany Savage

Anne-Marie Creamer

Judith Stewart

James Quinn

Anna Marie Savage

Luce Choules

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