09 September 2005
— 23 September 2005
S1 Members Show 2005
S1 announced its first annual members’ exhibition, representing Sheffield-based artists from S1 studios and the Associate Member programme.
Comprising of twenty practices in a range of media the exhibition included painting, photography, sculpture, performance and video. Helen de Main strung a wire of motorised birds across the project space and Sarah Palmer set up a video camera to capture a real-time view of her low-tech fountain (water pump in a bucket). Jerome Harrington’s sculptures fused a boy’s world of sci-fi comics and model making. Stathis Pertisindis explored the anecdote, Prevett & McArthur made the Norma Star Map and Heidi Schaefer inverted land and sea in a topographical image of Europe. Matt Lewis told a story about an iceberg lettuce missing from his Tesco Online delivery and utk translated their conversations with a professional plate-spinner to light bulbs that flickered with the intonation of their voices. Silvia Champion knited the dictionary and Helen Brigham induced claustrophobia with makeshift stilts for her bed-sit furniture. Alison J Carr created a wall-mounted album of vintage clergy and Amanda Lane made a selection from her salon of miniature portrait paintings. Robin Close capturedc D-Rob on camera and Andrew Tebbs documented an illegal camp. On Video Julie Westerman’s animated fan blew a virtual breeze, Edwin Rostron made chaotic animation to accompany music by the Sheffield band Hotsnackand t c mccormack’s cavalcade of taxi drivers cycled through the streets of a provincial Swedish town.