Czech Líšeň Profile in Millenium Gallery

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Christina Varveri

Millenium Gallery of Museums Sheffield host till 30th of May the exhibition ‘Líšeň Profile’ by the Czech contemporary artist Kateřina Šedá.

Face line appears on the horizon

Kateřina Šedá touches on ideas of community, memory and collective identity.

‘My difference with other artists is that they show their problems, I find solutions’, she said, ‘I try to work with things that worry and bother me and I try to find solutions for them’.

She has coordinated with many Czech volunteers in a search for those individuals who best reflect the physical profile of her home town, Líšeň. She said that in the beginning she didn’t want to restrict the artists by telling them what to do.

The 500 drawings hosted in the exhibition will reveal the extraordinary process behind this artwork . The key point is that when we see her artworks, we can see an horizontal face line.

‘Once I saw a scarf falling from a man. I gave it to him. He blew his nose. Then a branch broke from a church. Ι looked at the church and I saw a face line in the horizon. I found the solution to reconnect the village’, she pointed out.

Kateřina Šedá’s work recently appeared at the Millennium Gallery as part of Art Sheffield 2010.

Weston Park Museum’s sporting new exhibition

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Emma McHale

Sports Lab: The science behind the medals poster on the Weston Park Museum

Weston Park Museum recently opened a new exhibition of sporting memorabilia and sporting activities called the Sports Lab: The science behind the medals.

The Sports Lab may be an exhibition, but it is not your typical exhibition.

It covers not only popular British sports such as swimming, but also less popular sports such as the bob skeleton. It also encourages improved movement, noise, concentration and brain power from adults and children.

The exhibition chronicles the events of the 1991 World Student Games, which was held in Sheffield. The displays of swimming competitions includes old-fashioned swimming costumes that you can try on, which are similar to the ones used in the 1932 Olympics. Some of the swimming memorabilia displayed were of the 1931 to 1932 trophies for breaststroke and backstroke.

The exhibition also includes displays of footballs used in different areas from the leather ball of 1910 to the more recent 2010 football. The bob skeleton section gives you a visual view of the bob skeleton descending the track in La Plagne in France, from 2008′s World Champion Kristan Bromley’s point of view.

There are also sections for dancing and cycling. The dancing section is called Dance Star. The activity is divided in to two parts: the moving parts and the static parts. It involves the three participants competing on three dance floors to see how much force each person can exert during the dancing, and then how still the person can be during the static parts of the activity.

The cycling section includes a visual cycling trial by Olympic medallist Chris Hoy around the Weston Park, as a person cycles on the bicycle in the exhibition. These activities were very popular among children during the half-term break, with a crowd constantly surrounding the section.

There were also segments for reaction time and designing an athlete. The reaction time segment involved the participants tapping the lights on a board in the fastest time possible. This was called beat the clock and is more commonly known as the batak light board reaction test. The design an athlete segment involved the participant designing the perfect athlete on a computer program.

The Sports Lab at the Weston Park Museum is open until 10^th November 2011 and entrance is free.

Exhibition of Sheffield’s Gay Icons

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Yajing Wang

Stephen Fry, nominated by a university student in Sheffield for being comfortable with being gay (image courtesy of Flickr)

As part of the Gay Icon Project lauched by the University of Sheffield, an exhibition featuring Sheffield’s gay icons is to take place this Saturday in Jessop West.

Since the beginning of the project in late November, the project team has been receiving nominations from all over Sheffield.

The photographic and audio-visual exhibition is aimed at discovering who inspires, motivates and captivates homosexual people living in Sheffield, and which iconic homosexual figures provide inspiration for heterosexual people too.

The exhibition will last from 4 Dec to 9 Dec, open daily from 10 am to 18 pm, and is free.