KeyPiece
KeyPiece was a combined public exhibition and research event bringing together leading metalworking practitioners and their work in November 2009
Head UP
This project builds on work we have done with users identifying their problems with current neck supports and what their requirements are for an ideal neck support. We have development two complimentary concepts for novel neck supports (FlexLace and Pull-a-Neck), based on user and healthcare professional workshop.
Jewellery as Prostheses
In the collective search for improvement, ultimate functionality, beauty and perfection, the body has been commodified, becoming the subject of design, a luxury item.
Freud on Holiday
Freud on Holiday is a series of experimental travel writings in which Kivland meticulously re-constructs Sigmund Freud’s journeys to European sites
Furniture
Furniture, an exhibition by Paul Chamberlain, head of the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
Gravity: Buckets and Jewels
Gravity is a space for debates about the visual as a critical domain within Fine Art practice. This collaborative project by artists Penny McCarthy, Becky Shaw and Andrew Sneddon examines the many ways the art world deals with its ambivalent and yet enduring relations with artefacts.
Sacred Spaces
Whilst increasingly rarefied in practice, the role of art for the modern church continues to be explored, questioned and debated, yet its application is often poles apart.
We Are All Migrants
The research enquiry sought to explore and illuminate issues of migration in 20th century Europe in relation to questions of culture and identity.
The Beacon: Health & Wellness Futures
This research tested how a public work could:- i) leverage science/tech to improve public health; ii) redefine a discarded urban space to improve well-being; and iii) humanise the development and delivery of this work through multi-generational health activities and public workshops to encourage co-discovery of solutions to help fix the broken US healthcare system.
Ymedaca
Ymedaca was a multi-modal art work that created the largest sculpture ever exhibited at YSP by recasting its entire grounds and facilities as a contemporary translation of Plato’s garden academy