Director's News

Installation in progress...Robert Casselton Clark's art work at Persistence Works. 

I am delighted to announce that after years of being fairly unattractive from the front, we are currently installing a stunning new art work by Robert Casselton Clark at Persistence Works. Over 30m long, the 27 panels show sculptural forms and text resulting from a very successful residency that Robert completed at Persistence Works last year, funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire through the G4A fund. This seems like a good opportunity to thank all those involved for their dogged determination in funding, creating, producing and installing the work. We’re hoping to have images of the whole façade in our next e-newsletter. For details of the work, please see the press release on our website.

Kate Dore
Director, Yorkshire Artspace 

Dates for your Diary

A quick glance at forthcoming event and exhibitions dates this month (see items in this newsletter for full details):

Hybrid Exhibition Preview
Friday 5th Feb 6-8.30pm
Everyone welcome! 

Hybrid Exhibition
Persistence Works Reception/Project Space 
3rd-24th February 

Art Sheffield 2010 Private View
Persistence Works 
Friday 5th March 7-9 pm 

Manor Oaks Studio Update

A site visit this month showed that the building work is progressing rapidly and the studios are still scheduled to be completed in May/June this year. 
We have had several applications and expressions of interest from artists and will be interviewing on Wednesday 24th February 2010. 
For latest studio specification including costs please download the Manor Oaks info 2010 PDF from our website.

Exhibitions and Events

Hybrid Art and Science Exhibition
This show brings together the often polarised opposing ‘disciplines’ of art and science. 
There are various ways of perceiving consciousness ranging from the subjective to the objective. In order to be able to process the enormous amount of knowledge that has accumulated over the centuries, it has become necessary to split information into different disciplines. 
Hybrid - Preview Evening, Persistence Works
Fri 5th February 6.00- 8.30pm .......everyone welcome!

Hybrid: Persistence Works Reception 
3rd-24th February 
Mon-Fri 10-5/  Thurs 10.45-5.00
Artists: Hondartza Fraga, Bryony and Chloe Pritchard, David McNab

Hybrid: Project Space Persistence Works 
3rd-11th February Mon-Fri 10-5 
Artists: Lizz Tuckerman, Alireza Fazeli, Lesley Seeger 
5th February Performance of ‘the Sibling Experiment’ by Bryony and Chloe Pritchard  

The exhibition is also taking place at Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery and Butcher Works Gallery during February. 
For more information visit www.hybrid-art.co.uk

Ceramics and Painting Exhibition
by Sarah Villeneau & Rama Ramski 
Gallery 12a
Feb 5th- 27th 2010 
12a South Parade 
Doncaster DN1 2DY 
Private view 4pm-8pm Friday Feb 5th 
for more information email
firthrosemary@hotmail.com 
or tel. 01302 738377

Art Sheffield 2010

Art Sheffield 2010 Life: A User's Manual is the fifth event, organised by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, to take place since 2001 and takes the form of a single exhibition, spread across the city's gallery spaces: Yorkshire Artspace: Persistence Works, Graves Gallery, Millennium Gallery, S1 Artspace, Site Gallery, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, other venues and the public realm.
The event will take place between 6th March and 30th April 2010 and the artist showing her work at Yorkshire Artspace is Rotterdam based Rachel Koolen.

Preview of Rachel Koolen's Work at Yorkshire Artspace
Friday 5th March 7-9 pm 
“In her work Rachel Koolen brings into play and confronts administrative society. She engages with bureaucratic structures, the residue of modernism sometimes found within them (such as prefab design structures) and finds a certain elegance in their attempts to implement and make concrete 'ideologically' driven policies. 

For Art Sheffield 2010 she is showing work that takes this subject matter to act like a chameleon in the reception area of Yorkshire Artspace; speaking the rational, dry language that she recognises as her own and simultaneously evoking a specific humour”. 

Further details on www.artsheffield.org

Residency Update

Ruth Ewan will be introducing her practice, the ideas behind her residency at Yorkshire Artspace and her new work Moderately Wrathful for Art Sheffield 2010 on Saturday 3rd April, 3.30-4.30pm at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Galleries.
Developed for Art Sheffield 2010, and drawing on Sheffield’s radical history, Moderately Wrathful consists of a series of images distributed via all Art Sheffield venues. Through manipulated or redirected situations Ruth Ewan’s projects bring lesser-known histories back into circulation. Working with print, performance and installation she examines the ways in which individuals and groups have utilised creative forms in an attempt to redefine their world. 
Drawing by Robert Tressell.
Places are free but limited so please book by emailing: learning@museums-sheffield.org.uk or call 0114 2782655 

Artist Professional Development

Craft Rally events in London & Sheffield
An inclusive national event by makers, for makers and with makers.  
London 25th March at 45 Millbank.  Cost £40
Sheffield 23rd April, Museums Sheffield: Millennium Galleries. Cost £20
or both events for £50 

For further details on the events and how to book your place, please visit the Crafts Council website www.craftscouncil.org.uk or contact Craft Rally HQ on 0207 8062589.

I’D RATHER STAY IN THE STUDIO
Arts Marketing Workshop for Visual Artists & Craft Makers
22nd February, 26th April, 20 September 2010
The Pilates Space, Fossgate, York
Cost £120 + VAT
A one-day practical workshop aimed at Visual Artists and Craft Makers who wish to improve their marketing skills and selling techniques.
To book or for more information email: hello@melanieparis.com/ tel: 01904 647408

One - To - One Advisory Sessions

• For career development and funding applications: Contact Mir Jansen, Programme Manager professional development on 0114 2130111 or mir@artspace.org.uk

• For arts education & outreach: Contact Rachael Dodd, Programme manager education & outreach on 0114 2130111 or rachael@artspace.org.uk

Opportunities 

Feiweles Trust Writer-Illustrator Bursary
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Sept 2010-Dec 2011
£12,000 Bursary 

The Feiweles Trust supports artists at the beginning of their careers working in schools and the community and awards an annual bursary to work alongside teachers and share their art forms with young people. In partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, this special bursary celebrates 20 years of the Feiweles Trust. 
The bursary holder will have 15 preparation days, 65 contact days working in schools, and a further 40 days (approximately) to research and produce a publication to document the history of the Trust.
For further information or to apply please call 01924 832500 or email info@ysp.co.uk
 

Music in the Round Exclusive Offer:
Buy One Get One Free!
Thursday 18th February
7.45pm at Upper Chapel Sheffield

Music in the Round is offering our e-newsletter readers the chance to buy one get one free on tickets for world-class string quartet Meta4 in concert on Thursday 18th February. The programme features a world premiere of a piece by Finnish classical/folk/jazz composer Alakotila alongside a celebrated 20^th century piece alongside a classical masterpiece.  
Call 0114 249 6000 or go in person to Sheffield Theatres box office at the Crucible and quote "Yorkshire Artspace Offer" when booking. 
For full concert details visit www.musicintheround.co.uk.

Public Programmes & Studio Manager
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Part-time / 2 days per week
Closing date for applications: Wed Feb 10th
Interviews: Wed Feb 17th

S1 Artspace has a vacancy for a ‘Public Programmes & Studio Manager’. S/he will manage S1’s audience development initiatives for 2010/11, assist with S1’s marketing activities and oversee the running of the S1 Studios.
For full job description and application details visit <http://www.s1artspace.org> 

Contact Details

Yorkshire Artspace
Persistence Works
21 Brown Street
Sheffield
S1 2BS
www.artspace.org.uk
info@artspace.org.uk 
0114 2761769 

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February 2010

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