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Find out about Creative Spark, our annual graduate showcase of final year students' work, and Brightest Spark, an exhibition featuring projects completed by our elite students.
View the Creative Spark image gallery, taken from the 2010 graduate showcase of final year students' work.
Find out about the Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA) and view a 360 degree tour of the SIA gallery, where our students exhibit their work.
View a 360 degree tour of our print making studio.
View a 360 degree tour of our print making studio.
View a 360 degree tour of our model making workshop used to make prototypes of students’ designs.
Our Digital Design Centre can print medium to large format high quality outputs on a range of different media. The laboratories have software supporting 2D and 3D engineering and creative design applications. Find out more.
One of the most valuable resources available for you to access is our highly experienced technical support team. Find out how they can help support your development.
View profiles of the staff who teach in this subject area.
To develop your ability as an artist or artist-designer, you attend skills-centred workshops with practising artists and skilled technicians.
Exploring traditional and contemporary art making processes, you develop skills in 2D and 3D art forms ranging from painting and illustration to casting and furniture.
You use modern and well-equipped facilities including
• woodworking machinery and workshops
• metalworking machinery such as welding, foundry and silversmithing equipment
• printmaking, which supports activities including etching, drypoint, cyanotype, lithography and screen printing
• a photography department with black and white, and colour dark room facilities
Drawing is a central part of the course in the beginning. At level one, you take workshops in sculpture and painting, and choose workshops from other 2D and 3D areas such as • printmaking • metalwork and jewellery • furniture design • illustration • photography.
You also study
• digital image software packages
• art history and theory to help place your practical work in a wider context
During level two you develop your practical skills through specialist workshops. To continue your professional development, you create your own website. You also complete a module on exhibition/commission research and execution. All of the practical modules involve report writing.
At level three, you specialise in 2D or 3D work and take an industrial placement or equivalent. In level four, you develop your business acumen and complete a substantial body of work for your final exhibition.
You prepare a research report for your final degree show, and take a module that develops business and work-based knowledge to help you reach your goals after graduation.
There is a full-time version of this course.
Find out more about MArt Creative Art Practice
Related courses
Part-time – typically eight years
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £4,500 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
• exhibition • portfolio • essay • visual and verbal presentation • research report
Student working in his studio space
Spark - be creative
Subjects included are • animation • architecture • computers • creative writing • digital media production • engineering • fashion design • film and visual effects • film and media production • fine art • furniture and product design • games design • graphic design • interior design • jewellery and metalwork • performing arts • photography • product design.
Creative Spark
Creative Spark is an annual showcase of student work and celebrates the innovation, creativity and imagination of our most talented graduates. Creative Spark is hosted across four university venues • Owen • Cantor • Sheaf • Arundel Gate Court and S1 in the city centre.
For further information visit the Creative Spark website.
Brightest Spark
Brightest Spark is an exhibition housed in the SIA Gallery and Cantor building. This exhibition features the elite students in each Sheffield of Institute of Arts course as chosen by industry professionals.
For further information visit the Brightest Spark website.
Project Spark
Sheffield Hallam students have the opportunity to play a key role in the promotion of the Creative Spark and Brightest Spark exhibitions by submitting entries for Project Spark. The 2012 competitions included • concept design • branding and wayfinding • creative writing • image • brightest spark logo and branding.
For further information visit the Project Spark website.
Students' work on display at the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery.
BA (Hons) photography students exhibited their work in the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery.
An example of a contemporary fine art project.
Laura Hayes final year project for BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art.
An example of an animation modelling project.
BA (Hons) Animation modelling work on display for Thomas Lloyd's final year project entitled The Window Pianist.
An example of a metalwork and jewellery piece.
Emma Middleton's jewellery piece for BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery.
The concept behind Emma's work is based on the idea of sentimental jewellery and the burden this can become on the wearer.
An example of an animation modelling project.
BA (Hons) Animation modelling work by Luke Adams for his final year project entitled Uneasy Rider.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Graphic students work on display.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work displayed by engineering students.
Four students' workbooks on display.
BA (Hons) Interior Design student workbooks (Shamila Hussain, Faiza Khan, Naomi Nunn and Helen Genia Austin).
A collaboration between fashion and engineering students.
A collaboration between fashion and engineering students creating a wedding dress that could be dissolved after the wedding to transform it into five new fashion pieces.
This went on to achieve international acclaim.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work displayed by interior design students.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery students work on display.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
BA (Hons) Product Design work.
Students' workbooks on display.
A visitor to Creative Spark looking at students' workbooks for BA (Hons) Product Design.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work on display from the Extended degree in Design.
An example of a final year metalwork and jewellery project.
Final year project for BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery.
Gallery
Sheffield Institute of Arts
Sheffield Institute of Arts at Sheffield Hallam University is one of the oldest and most well-established centres of creative learning in Britain. Since 1843, we’ve built an excellent reputation and nurtured generations of students in a culture where anything is possible and with the resources to make it happen. To find out more about the Sheffield Institute of Art and its creative community visit the website.
Sheffield Institute of Arts gallery
The gallery offers and exciting programme of changing exhibitions of the best in art, design and creative practice. Located in the Cantor building, it hosts exhibitions throughout the year.
Print making studio
Our print making studio supports a wide range of print activities including etching, drypoint, cyanotype, lithography and screen printing.
Art and design print making studio 1
Our print making studio supports a wide range of print activities including etching, drypoint, cyanotype, lithography and screen printing.
Model making workshop
Model making workshop used to make prototypes of students’ designs.
The Digital Design Centre
The Digital Design Centre comprises a suite of 6 IT laboratories (4 PC and 2 MAC) together with the Print Output room, an area for printing medium to large format high quality output on a range of different media. The laboratories have a wide range of software supporting 2D and 3D engineering and creative design applications.
The Digital Design Centre runs a high quality computer printing facility and has the ability to print sizes between A4 and A0 and wide format banners. A3, A2, A1, A0 and Banner photo quality printing is available on a range of papers, as well as AutoCAD type plans ( B & W ) on standard paper.
Technical support team
While you will find excellent facilities throughout, the most valuable resource you will have at your disposal is access to our extremely dedicated, highly experienced technical staff.
All the staff are there to support you during your time in the workshops. The technical team with its professionally qualified staff and practicing professionals, has a wealth of knowledge and expertise across all areas of our provision and comprises engineers, designers, silversmiths and jewellers, fine artists, media arts specialists and IT experts.
The team are committed to using their diverse range of skills and knowledge to support practical aspects of your
course work, whether solving a simple software problem, producing a complex engineering project or creating design work for an international exhibition. There are currently 50 technical staff directly supporting the Technical Resource Centres and the research institutes of the faculty.
Gary Simmonds
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
'I am a senior lecturer working across the creative art practice and fine art degree courses, from undergraduate to postgraduate level. I am level and module leader for the first year of the creative art practice degree course. I teach on both studio and theory modules across the fine art subject area, including supervising PhD research student. I have had a number of roles including course leadership of the Extended Degree in Art and BA (Honours) Creative Art Practice. I am currently the link-tutor to Hillsborough College in creative art practice and level and module leader for the first year of the creative art practice degree course.
'My own research is in painting. My practice is concerned with abstract painting’s relationship to geometry, design and ornamentation. I make paintings that flirt with: formal abstraction, beauty decoration and disorder. I have exhibited my work both nationally and internationally including solo shows in London and Milan and group shows at the South London Gallery, London and LoBe projects in Berlin. I have a forthcoming exhibition at the Westlane Gallery South Gallery, London in June 2013.'
Andrew Sneddon
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
'I am a Scottish artist and senior lecturer in fine art and creative art practice at Sheffield Hallam University and also lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art. I have an MA and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art and studied at the British School at Rome. I have exhibited nationally and internationally, and currently engaged in a practice-led PhD at the University of Edinburgh. My practice and PhD are concerned with exploring our complex relations with place and the decision-making process of the artist in response to context and situation.
'I have also contributed to three chap-book publications that feature Alec Finlay, Jeremy Millar and Roddy Buchanan. I have recently contributed to a number of conferences with papers entitled ‘Two naked men and an open fire’, ‘I don’t know what I’m looking for but I’ll know it when I see it’ and ‘The act of improvisation in the work of Tacita Dean’. I also co-organise an interdisciplinary project called ‘GRAVITY’ that was launched in 2010 as a forum for debates about the visual as a critical domain within the creative industries. This research project examines the myriad ways the art world deals with its ambivalent and yet enduring relationship with the artefact.'
Becky Shaw
Course leader, Creative Art Practice
As course leader for creative art practice, I lead an energetic and committed team. Recent focus has included devising a new display language for graduating third year students, and I lead a second year theory option called art and materiality. Two colleagues and I run Gravity - this research project and lecture series invites internationally respected artists to present their work to our students.
My research focuses on the relationship between people and the material world, and how ideas of objectivity and subjectivity dwell in objects. As a result my art practice involves making artworks that respond to places where people and objects interact - in large social environments including hospitals and factories.
Many of my works have involved collaborations with diverse people, including engineers, performers, hospital residents and scientists. I was awarded a PhD in 1998, following a three year study that explored making sculpture with palliative care patients. In 201 I won the Amstelveen Art Incentive prize for new art. My work has been included in books such as - ‘Situations’ by Claire Doherty- a key reference text for art in the public realm, in a Routledge reader on ‘Community Performance', and in a new book on collaboration called ‘Speculative Strategies’. From 2000-2006, I was co-director of Static, an experimental art and architecture gallery in Liverpool.
Profiles
Gary Simmonds
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
Andrew Sneddon
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
Becky Shaw
Course leader, Creative Art Practice
