It's Moor hip to be square... or at least it is to be 20 inches by 20 inches!
A brand new art installation will provide thousands of christmas shoppers with an extraordinary customer experience in Sheffield city centre this December. The installation of the 20x20 exhibition is a technicolour showcase of over 50 artists and takes over a disused shop front on one of Sheffield's busiest consumer thoroughfares, The Moor. The display sits in the midst of retail powerhouses such as Argos and Burtons, a couple of units down from the sadly defunct Woolworths shop. The exhibition is a joint venture between digital arts charity Access Space and the White Gallery and aims to provide a few delights and surprises to visitors to the city this winter. The exhibition in the format twenty inches by twenty inches square has taken a short journey from the gallery where it was being hosted, Access Space on Sidney St. near the Showroom, to heart of Shefffield city centre. This is the sixth yearly 20x20 Exhibition hosted by arts & education charity Access Space, and is the result of an open call for new art works 20" by 20". Access Space arts programme manager, Jake Harries, explains: “The exhibition is a triumph for inclusion and participatory arts: anyone can take, from people who have never had work shown in public to professional artists who regularly exhibit, and it is growing every year. This year we had more than fifty artists, of all ages, from Sheffield and the surrounding area submit their work. The only stipulation is that the work must be exactly 20 inches square. With just this one rule, it's amazing what a high quality and diverse selection of work is submitted. That's why we're taking this opportunity to show it right in the heart of the city. We think the exhibition helps to show just what a creative place Sheffield actually is.” The exhibition will be on the Moor next to Argos (in a disused shop front renamed the White Gallery) from Saturday the 26th of November to Tuesday the 14th of December 2011. On Saturday 10th of December Access Space staff, volunteers and artists will be at the exhibion to talk about their project. Please come and join us! http://access-space.org/doku.php?id=events:20_x_20_exhibition_2011 Access Space will be using the event on the 10th to launch its Friends Scheme. In March the organisation learned that it had lost its regular funding from the Arts Council of England from April 2012 and is looking at ways to crowd source funds to keep it FREE and OPEN to the public. We are inviting members of the Sheffield community to make contributions, starting at as little as, for instance, £1 by PayPal and £3 a month by standing order. www.access-space.org/friends About Access Space: Access Space is the UK's longest running free, open digital arts lab, and is based on Sidney Street next to Yorkshire Art Space in Sheffield city centre. At Access Space, people interested in art, design, computers, recycling, music, electronics, photography and more meet like minded people, share and develop skills and work on creative, enterprising and technical projects www.access-space.org Access Space was the winner in Recycling Category of the 2011 Sheffield Telegraph Environmental Awards. It operates at a very low cost with a minimal carbon footprint, because we recycle donated computers and use free, open source software. Access Space runs focused drop-in activities and support sessions as well as one off workshops . We also have opportunities for volunteering, hosting your own events or group meetings, registering a web domain, visiting and taking part in exhibitions and arts events and taking part in projects that can lead to qualifications See http://tinyurl.com/729m9sj for more info. Contact: Jake Harries (Arts Programme Manager) Tel: 0114 249 5522 Email: [email protected] <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ACCESS SPACE, 3-7 Sidney St, Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0) 114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Access Space is supported by the Arts Council England, The Tudor Trust and the European Social Fund. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Join our Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/37j7gh4 Follow us onTwitter: http://twitter.com/accessspace Not subscribed to our mailing list yet? http://eepurl.com/gPMwX _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
