2010 Exhibitions


June 2nd

Cook-Up in a Trini kitchen

7.00 pm

In conjunction with Sheffield Food Festival, we are delighted to invite you to an evening of Poetry and Food – Caribbean style. Sample a taste of Summer in the Atrium beginning with a welcome Trini Rum Punch, followed by an introduction and anecdotes from John Lyons to get you in the mood for the main courses – a buffet meal prepared by John with help from the staff at Bank Street and readings from Alan Payne and John Lyons. All of this and Johnny’s special iced tea..... MORE

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May 10th - June 9th

Simon Roberts - Motherland

10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Intimate and revealing portraits of contemporary Russians, introduce us to these diverse people, united by a sense of common identity, with breathtaking landscapes revealing the complexity and uniqueness of the country......MORE

 

May 13th - May 31st

James Dodd
Ballroom

10.00 am - 5.00 pm

  

Until June 8th

Gary
101 Uses for an MP

10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Ballroom is a video installation and first solo exhibition by Bank Street resident artist James Dodd.... MORE FOLLOWING THE EMERGENCY BUDGET, THIS EXHIBITION WILL SOON BE CUT, LIKE SO MUCH OTHER ARTISTIC ENDEAVOUR OVER THE COMING MONTHS - OH COME ON, YOU VOTED FOR IT!

Until May 29th

Art Sheffield 2010 - Over To You

10.00 am - 5.00 pm
During the month's of April and May Bank Street Arts hosted a series of exhibitions by local artists in response to Art Sheffield 2010. The result was a diverse and eclectic series of shows showcasing text based art with experimental music.

The work was accepted on an entirely open platform with all interested parties and attendees at open meetings deciding upon the curatorial stance and method.

The group decision was to accept all proposals and accommodate all exhibitions over the two month period. This exhibition shows selected works from the series and continues to raise questions about the funding of the Arts in Sheffield whilst artists' studios are threatened with closure and redevelopment.... MORE

May 27th

Robin Vaughan-Williams & Matt Clegg

7.30 pm

In the valley tower blocks have broken free of their foundations
and are ringing roses in the sky
rippling their pastel bodywork.

They have heard
the manager is coming.... MORE

May 29th

Writing Day

10.15 am - 4.30 pm

The Poetry Business Writing Days are the bench-mark in writing workshop provision. Unique when they were first introduced over twenty years ago, they have been continually popular with writers at all levels.

Poetry Business Writing Days are open to all and no booking is required .... MORE

Exploding Poetry

February 9th - March 6th , 2010
Poet Noel Williams was our first writer in residence as part of the 2009 Residency Programme. His diverse project included the completion of a poetry sequence on the theme of women and warfare, as well as experimenting with both the role of reader and writer in the creation of and encounters with poetic texts. With the assistance of an Arts Council grant, Noel has been able to collaborate with visual and sound artists and test out ideas and prototypes for poetry objects and environments which both complement his work and challenge or reinterpret its reading. It's poetry..... but not as we know it .... MORE



Memory Screen

February 9th - March 6th , 2010

‘MEMORY SCREEN is an impossible book which by now exists in at least five distinct versions each of which begins with a snapshot of a graffito on a garage door beneath Castle Market in Sheffield. The graffito consists of a spraycanned outline figure alongside the words Memory Screen. An alternative reading is Memori Scheem and so this may be the book’s correct title; the figure is either female or androgyne, the face somewhat monkey-like. Most of the versions of Memory Screen consist of a sequence of graphics many of which include words and word-fragments. The verbal element sometimes detaches itself and becomes associated with a series of aphorisms which form as it were a sequence of parallel texts. The parallel texts sometimes appear to be poems but are arguably no such thing. Yet they are not, for the most part, captions. None of the versions is complete or completable.’

Memory Screen will be shown at Bank Street as a sequence of 54 framed triptychs and in the electronic version prepared for Alan Halsey’s Marginalien (Five Seasons Press 2005). A previous version was shown at the Bury Text Festival in 2005.