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Two people in dark clothes with dark, long hair stand chatting and smiling in an artist's studio, surrounded by colourful objects and shelves of artist materials

Exchange Place Studios: Inside Sheffield’s art laboratory

29.10.2025, by Orla Foster

An aerial view of a figure with dark skin, shaven head, arms outstretched, standing on a white sheet that has a drawing in pink dye of a seahorse.

A Pink Seahorse

17.10.2025, by Kate Sweeney

two people are absorbed drawing. They are sat at different tables

How to Build a Village (for Artists)

13.08.2025, by Sinéad Nunes

sheets of blue with black drawn scales and waving lines

Paper Goes Swimming: Alicia Paz’s Women in Print Residency

30.07.2025, by Susannah Thompson

Photgraph of the corner of a brightly lit cafe corner with a large blocky chair and a hexagonal floor textile, the walls behind painted with a bright orange design with circles.

‘Love Cries’: The Feeding Chair comes to Cardiff

28.07.2025, by Emily Roux

human hands rolling brown clay on a wooden surface

Inside the Building, a Body: Emily Speed’s Women in Print Residency

08.06.2025, by Eloise Oui

A group of smiling gardeners between two polytunnels surrounded by bright green plants

Sean Roy Parker: stewarding

23.04.2025, by Joey Frances

long curves of ceramics with little figures of foods on them

Dining in the kiln: Aliyah Hussain and the Touchstones redevelopment

22.04.2025, by Natalie Russett

A photoshop screen with an image of a desert and a group of people in formal dress standing in between a flag that says 'welcome to mars top 1%' and on the right a rocket

In-Situ: Inside Out Pendle

04.04.2025, by Jessica El Mal

The artist sits at a workbench touching a deep green sheet of paper with one of her hands

Flower is a Cloud: Sana Obaid’s Women in Print Residency

22.03.2025, by Nina Newbold

Two human faces lit with strings of fairy lights around them in a dark orange image

Reciprocal relationships: PROFORMA’s artist residency toolkit

05.03.2025, by Natalie Bradbury

A white walled gallery with three large bright paintings on the walls and cardboard signs propped up on the floor around the space

Street Sellers: Lubaina Himid’s Women in Print Residency

12.02.2025, by Harpreet Kaur

Women sit around a large table covered in paints, paper, and other art supplies, talking and smiling

In Translation: In-Situ and Art of Small Talk

14.01.2025, by Chantal Oakes

A print of a red block with rows of lighter shade and ribbons of traps curled at the top and bottom

Translating Textiles into Print: Jenny Steele’s Women in Print Residency

04.12.2024, by Iona Glen

the litho stone with drawing on its face and a hand swirling a liquid around the surface

Stepping Stones: Helen Cammock’s Women in Print Residency

01.08.2024, by Marjorie H. Morgan

A white wall covered in little fragments of images on paper loosely attached in blacks, greys, whites and oranges

Points of Contact: Hannah Leighton-Boyce

25.07.2024, by Amie Kirby

Looking out of the front windows of a trolley-bus, you see a path leading through a mausoleum

Digital Vapour Trails: Ronnie Danaher in profile

27.06.2024, by Abi Mitchell

A woman in a keffiyeh reads off a piece of paper into a microphone accompanied by a seated man who plays the oud

Voices of Resilience

18.06.2024, by Jessica El Mal

A group of people of varying ages gathered in a public square or street in front of an old shop front

This is Nelson

05.06.2024, by Natalie Hughes

An image of a garden at night. In the foreground plants and flowers, close up and blured. In the middle, offset to the left, a smooth white orb or ball. Behind it the rest of the garden, or landscape in silhouette against a blue night sky

Emotional weather and climates of change – the work of Aidan Moesby

29.05.2024, by Dave Pritchard

A close-up photograph of four pies which have been covered in gold leaf positioned on a white plinth.

Place Matters…finding home

05.05.2024, by Harpreet Kaur

A dark room with deep red bean bags in front of a large film screen which shows a man with white in his beard, semi-transparent laid over the image of a hill

To Mourn and To Remember: Memory Stone by Nikta Mohammadi

12.04.2024, by Jessica El Mal

A close up of a champagne coloured cushion with a small pin, the head of the pin is a red plastic love heart.

Closed Enough

22.03.2024, by Kate Liston

A group of people of various ages and races sit around the room listening, some lie back with arms cross and all have their eyes shut

SHOP & The Future of Listening by Niki Colclough

13.03.2024, by James McColl

A group of adults and young children sit on the floor with a selection colourful paper and pencils.

Mothers Apart

03.02.2024, by Lara Eggleton

A woman with pale skin and red hair, photographed from just below the shoulders, is holding a piece of coal between fingers and thumb of each hand over where her eyes would be. Her arms and shoulders are naked. behind her, out of focus, is a rural landscape.

Alexandra Clod and Karolina Uskakovych: (Re)Grounding

02.11.2023, by Tom Jeffreys

Five long tables laid with afternoon tea with balloons and bunting, it looks like a real party!

MET (Mobile Event Tent)

28.10.2023, by Steve Slack

A large space with white walls and wooden floor, the ceiling is rigged with lights. There are a number of large beanbags on the floor, some have people sat in them. There is a large table at the back of the room with ten or so chairs around it. People mill around the space. Hanging on the back wall is a large patchwork hanging, large diamonds of coloured fabric stitched together. Another more simple square designed hanging is on the wall to our right.

Nominally Sovereign

02.10.2023, by Kate Liston

A group of people, some wearing facemasks, sitting and standing, assembled around a table speaking, drawing and taking notes.

UNIDEE 2020-2022: Reflections on Embedded Arts Practice in (post)pandemic times

20.07.2023, by Alessandra Saviotti

Photograph of a field of daisies taken from a low angle.

The Farmer’s Arms: Corridor8 behind the scenes & away from the screen

14.07.2023, by Lauren Velvick

In a dark room two huge black sculptures of a semicircular shape with a triangular gap at the bottom.

Reversed Cartography: on Liverpool Biennial 2023

29.06.2023, by Marjorie H. Morgan

A charcoal drawing of a large shaded circle next to a small one

Heather Peak: Out of step

23.06.2023, by Katy Morrison

In the centre of the space is a long black carpet with multicoloured patterns, and three clothed dressmaker's mannequins.

Late and Soon: A Conversation About Margaret Harrison and Conrad Atkinson

15.06.2023, by Lauren Velvick & Bernie Velvick

A photograph of a grassy clearing in a park with someone lying on the ground.

With For About: Care and the Commons

14.06.2023, by Grace Edwards

Several pairs of hands reach for plants and gloves during a gardening session.

Around you the landscape lies transfigured: Arts Catalyst’s home and garden in Sheffield

24.05.2023, by Linda Pittwood

A person sits on a bence in a park lit up by purple and orange light, watching a video of a row of people holding flowers, inside a pitched-roof house structure.

Lou Chapelle: Voicing Silence

14.03.2023, by Jay Drinkall