Apples & Snakes | Picture the Poet Live | Graves Gallery, Sheffield
Picture the Poet Live was held at Graves Gallery, Sheffield on 28 November 2014.
The event was presented by Apples and Snakes & Word Life as part of Picture the Poet a National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition in partnership with the National Literacy Trust and Apples and Snakes, funded by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund.
Internationally-acclaimed writers and performers Buddy Wakefield and Lemn Sissay performed alongside rising stars in the local poetry scene and talented young adults from Roundabout (a local youth housing charity) led by Sai Murray.
Filmed and edited by Nathan Gibson.
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Places to see in ( Sheffield - UK )
Places to see in ( Sheffield - UK )
Sheffield is a city in the English county of South Yorkshire. In the city centre, the Millennium Gallery shows metalwork and art from Sheffield and around the world. It adjoins the Winter Garden, a large temperate glasshouse filled with plants. Kelham Island Museum covers the city’s industrial heritage. The nearby countryside is part of Peak District National Park, characterised by moorland and rocky ridges.
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Sheffield name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. With some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city of Sheffield has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base.
In the 19th century, Sheffield gained an international reputation for steel production. Known as the Steel City, many innovations were developed locally, including crucible and stainless steel, fuelling an almost tenfold increase in the population in the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield received its municipal charter in 1843, becoming the City of Sheffield in 1893.
The city has a long sporting heritage, and is home to the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. Games between the two professional clubs, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, are known as the Steel City derby. The city is also home to the World Snooker Championship.
Alot to see in ( Sheffield - UK ) such as :
Kelham Island Museum
Millennium Gallery
Graves Park
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Bishops' House
Weston Park Museum
Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Eyam Hall
National Emergency Services Museum
Endcliffe Park
River Rivelin
Weston Park, Sheffield
Graves Art Gallery
Shepherd Wheel
Sheffield Manor
Site Gallery
Heeley City Farm
Wheel of Sheffield
Carl Wark
Dale Dike Reservoir
Ponderosa
Wyming Brook
Stanage Edge
Peveril Castle
Barrow Hill Engine Shed
Peak District
Peak Cavern
Derwent Reservoir
Sheffield Winter Garden
Cave Dale
Wentworth Woodhouse
Peace Gardens
Norfolk Heritage Park
Eyam Museum
Genting Casino Sheffield
Clifton Park & Museum
Locke Park
Meersbrook Park
Clifton Park Museum
Lose Hill
Cathedral Church of St Marie, Sheffield
Elsecar Heritage Centre
Ecclesall Woods
Rother Valley Country Park
Renishaw Hall
Win Hill
Old Moor Wetland Centre RSPB reserve
Higger Tor
Wincobank
Millhouses Park
( Sheffield - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Sheffield . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Sheffield - UK
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Sheffield Graves Art And Site Galleries January 2013
Graves Art Gallery:
The Power of the Print: Leonard Beaumont Rediscovered:
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Ruskin collection @ Sheffield museum. Millennium Gallery, UK
Ruskin collection @ Sheffield museum. Millennium Gallery 28 09 2013
museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/current/ruskin-collection
Discover a collection created for Sheffield's workers over 130 years ago; a collection designed to inspire creativity and to be a haven from the busy workday world.
John Ruskin, who formed this collection, was a Victorian writer who searched passionately for beauty in the world around him. He explored nature from the smallest pebble to the mightiest landscape and examined art from the daintiest brush stroke to soaring architectural structures.
During his lifetime,England's manufacturing cities expanded and became wealthy, whilst their workforces lived in poverty and grime. Workers had little to inspire them. Ruskin wanted to counter this imbalance and set up the Guild of St George, a philanthropic society. Through the Guild, Ruskin founded a museum specifically for Sheffield's workers. He filled it with a collection of artworks, illustrated books and minerals, all chosen to reflect his exploration of beauty.
Originally sited at Walkley, just outside the city centre, visitors could escape the smoke that surrounded them and immerse themselves in nature and art. Today, though the Ruskin Collection is exhibited in the city centre, it is still displayed and used as the creative and inspirational tool that Ruskin intended.
Visitors to the Ruskin Collection will see a broad range of exhibits, including early renaissance art, gothic architecture, engravings, mosaic decoration, illustrations of birds, flowers, insects, geological specimens, illustrated books and medieval manuscripts.
The items on display from the Ruskin Collection are changed twice each year. Explore the collection through the changing displays, and find out if you share Ruskin's thoughts on beauty.
The Millennium Gallery is an art gallery and museum in the centre of Sheffield, England. Opened in April 2001 as part of Sheffield's Heart of the City project, it is located in the city centre close to the mainline station, the Central Library and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, and Sheffield Theatres. Designed by architects Pringle Richards Sharratt, the building is primarily made from concrete and glass, with a series of galleries extending from a central avenue, which connects Arundel Gate with Sheffield Winter Garden. In 2011, the gallery was listed as the 15th most-visited free attraction in the country by Visit England.[1] It is managed by Museums Sheffield.
The gallery has two permanent collections, two temporary exhibition spaces, space for corporate events and weddings, and a cafe and shop.
Timelapse: Stipe, by Paul Morrison, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, 2012
Sheffield-based artist Paul Morrison's first solo exhibition in his home town - Auctorum - runs from 7 June - 4 November 2012 at the Millennium Gallery. In this timelapse film, shot by Richard Bolam, a major new wall painting for the exhibition - Stipe - takes shape the week before the show opens to the public.
Film by Richard Bolam
The Metalwork Gallery Sheffield - Healthy City Sheffield
Visiting the cultural exhibition related to Sheffield's history, finding out about the metalwork in Sheffield, learning about the organizations supported the skill hundreds years ago, discovering the contemporary metalwork, exploring the designers who helped to create stunning objects in the past and craftsmen working today are all in Millennium Museum Metalwork Gallery of Museum Sheffield.
Marc Quinn Kiss Graves Art Gallery Sheffield January 2013
A wander round Marc Quinn's - Kiss at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
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Reflections. Portraits from the 16th to the 18th century. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Graves Art Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield, England. The gallery is located above the Central Library in Sheffield city centre. It houses permanent displays from the city's historic and contemporary collection of British and European art along with a programme of temporary exhibitions.
Refections: Portraits from the 16th to the 18th century
Portrait painting became popular in Western art in the 16th century. It was usually just the rich, upper classes who had their portraits painted because it was so expensive. People often commissioned portraits to show off their status. The works contain clues which reveal more about the person in the painting.
bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/galleries/locations/museums-sheffield-graves-gallery-3656
In the same way that today's celebrity photographs are often airbrushed, these portraits showed an idealised version of the sitter. People were keen to show they were dedicated followers of fashion, through their clothes, hairstyles or choice of artist. Portrait painters often worked with a team of assistants. The lead artist sometimes only painted the face of the sitter, leaving the assistants to finish the painting. They would each specialise in a particular area such as the drapery or background landscape.
Visitors will see several highlights from the portrait collection, including Peter Lely Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham (about 1664) and George Romney's Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu M.P. (about 1775).
museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/current/gallery-vii
bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/margaret-brooke-c-16471667-lady-denham-70923
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Graves Gallery
Bits-size introduction to Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
Top Tourist Attractions in Sheffield (England) - Travel Guide
Top Tourist Attractions in Sheffield (England) - Travel Guide: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Beauchief Abbey, Bishop's House Museum, Central Library and Graves Art Gallery, Kelham Island Industrial Museum, National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield Winter Garden, Sheffield Cathedralg, Town Hall, Wheel of Sheffield
Sheffield The Five Weirs Walk
Ever been on a pilgrimage? Canterbury? Compostella? Come with me on this pilgrimage walk to the shrine of St Michael in South Yorkshire, situated just east of Sheffield. We are just doing the final section which takes us for about five miles from Sheffield city centre along the surprisingly verdant banks of the River Don, a section called 'The Five Wiers Walk'. Along the way, hear a little of the history of the cutlery and steel industries of Sheffield. Be sure to bring your money with you, for when we reach the Shrine of St Michael, you may need some - your contribution will be gratefully received. NB You may think that you have seen this before - it is a reload of something which was previously posted in two parts.
Photographs by Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin was a British photographer best known for her black and white images of the British countryside.
Goodwin was born in 1931, and her interest in photography began relatively late in life at the age of 35. She had no formal training, honing her skills by taking snaps of her family.
She started her professional career taking photographs of writers for the covers of their books. She photographed numerous literary figures of the 1970's and 1980's including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Günter Grass, Ted Hughes, Clive James, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Edna O'Brien, Anthony Powell, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, and Tom Stoppard.
Her love of walking and the countryside led her to landscape photography, her resulting images often drawing comparison with the work of Ansel Adams. She frequently used her landscape work to draw attention to environmental issues.
Godwin was president of the Rambler’s Association from 1987-1990 and after her death, the organisation described her leadership as a time when its long-running right-to-roam campaign was turned up to the full-strength pressure which ultimately resulted in the access provisions enshrined in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.”
Godwin published 18 books during her career, many of which were produced in collaboration with poets and authors including J.R.L. Anderson, Ted Hughes and Richard Ingrams. 'Our Forbiden Land' (1990) won her the first Green Book of the Year Award.
She held major exhibitions at the National Museum of Photography in Bradford, the Photographers' Gallery, the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, Aberdeen Art Gallery, the National Theatre, Aarhus Photographic Museum, Denmark, the Serpentine Gallery and the Barbican Centre. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery held a major retrospective in 2003.
In 1990 Godwin was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 1992 she was awarded Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 1995 she won an award from Northern Arts for the Year of the Visual Arts. In the same year she received an award from from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation to work on the contribution of small farmers to the character of the Cumbrian landscape. She had a major retrospective at the Barbican Centre in London 2001, with accompanying publication. In 2002 De Montfort University awarded Godwin an Honorary Doctorate of Arts.
Regarding landscape photography she said, A view doesn't make a picture. You make the picture. You have to work to make the picture if it isn't there. Just the sheer discipline of looking at the landscape makes you begin to see things, and see how the light affects the landscape.
After a short illness Godwin died in 2005 at the age of 74.
Dutch & Flemish painting from the 16th & 17th century, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
A Golden Age
Dutch and Flemish painting
from the 16th and 17th century
Today's border between Belgium and the Netherlands can be traced back to the 16th century, when the Low Countries split into two nations. In the North lay the independent, and largely Protestant, United Provinces of the Netherlands. In the South, Flanders remained under Catholic Spanish rule.
Landscapes and everyday scenes from domestic life became popular at this time. The Flemish artists often painted imaginary scenes, but the Dutch preferred to paint directly from life. Winter scenes were particulary popular due to the cold weather conditions that gripped the entire area. This is known as the '' little ice age ''.
Expansion of trade in the 17th century brought a booming economy and a flourishing art market. Wealthy Dutch merchants could now afford paintings for their homes. This was a Golden Age for painting.
Devotion. Religious art from the 16th to the 18th century. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Devotion: Religious art from the 16th to the 18th century
Religions use art and images to celebrate their faith. Some use paintings and objects to tell the story of how their faith began. Others use imagery to encourage people to lead a good moral life. Religious art is also used to help create a focus for prayer. Stories were illustrated so that everyone could understand them, as many people couldn't read. They contained easily recognisable signs and symbols so that people of all ages and backgrounds knew what they meant.
In Europe, the Christian church was powerful and wealthy. It was therefore the main funder of art and culture. As a result of this, the religious art in Sheffield's collection mainly represents the Christian faith.
bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/galleries/collections/museums-sheffield-896
Works in this display include Giulio Cesare Procaccini's The Mocking of Christ (about 1617) and Bartolome Esteban Murillo's The Infant Christ Asleep on the Cross (about 1670).
museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/current/gallery-vi
bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-mocking-of-christ-70893
Pilgrim portraits - Veronica, England
Rare Photos of the Exhumation and Reburial of John Paul Jones (1905-1906)
A collection of photos of the search for and exhumation of the body of American Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones in Paris 1905 and also his reinterment at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1906.
Photos are from the book John Paul Jones Commemoration at Annapolis, April 24, 1906 published in 1907 and the Library of Congress.
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Picture the Poet: Gevi Carver - Office Party
In association with the Picture the Poet exhibition at the Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield and Word Life present a series of performances from some of Sheffield's own literary talents.
Restless Times: Art in Britain 1914-1945
Restless Times is a new art exhibition at Sheffield's Millennium Gallery 6 October 2010 - 30 January 2011 featuring British art from 1914-1945.
The show tells the story of a turning point in modern British art, when a new influx of ideas created a wave of creativity. Artists shown include Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Nevinson, Henry Moore, Edward Bawden and Vanessa Bell.
Restless Times: Art in Britain 1914--1945
Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery
6 October 2010 -- 30 January 2011
museums-sheffield.org.uk
Interview With Karen Sherwood, Founder of Cupola Gallery, Sheffield.
The Mystery Shopper took a trip to the Cupola art gallery in Hillsborough, Sheffield to speak to the founder, Karen Sherwood about how her business has managed to stay appealing 22 years on.
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