Bloc Projects

Bloc Projects Bloc Projects is a contemporary arts organisation based in the centre of Sheffield, UK.

Bloc Projects presents and commissions contemporary art exhibitions, events, residencies, exchange projects and educational activity in our gallery and courtyard. Established in 2002, the organisation provides a platform for early-mid career artists to develop new work and present work to new audiences. Our programme encourages experimentation and invites critical dialogue among artists and audien

ces. Throughout its history Bloc Projects has supported artists and artist groups from across the UK and Europe working in a wide range of media, delivered partnerships projects with organisations such as Compass Live Art, Sheffield Fringe and Sensoria Festival, and been a long term member of the Art Sheffield Consortium. The gallery is a tenant of Bloc Studios, a partner organisation operating independently both financially and legally. Find all information relating to the studios’ history, artists and vacancies at the Bloc Studios page https://www.facebook.com/BlocArtists.

Announcing: ESEA Futures 2026 launches on 25 September! 🌠⁠⁠A Key Strand at Bloc Projects, ESEA Futures is a programme fo...
01/09/2026

Announcing: ESEA Futures 2026 launches on 25 September! 🌠⁠
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A Key Strand at Bloc Projects, ESEA Futures is a programme foregrounding East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) art practices, co-presented with Platform Asia.⁠

We are thrilled to continue a programme that is dedicated specifically to ESEA diasporas and art, providing a much-needed space for ESEA imaginings in Sheffield. ⁠
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This year’s ESEA Futures 2026 programme will include:

🔸 Other. Absence and Making Public, an exhibition that brings together sound, moving image and research work by Florence To (.to) that explores how perception is shaped by vibration, frequency and the environments we move through (25 Sept-7 Nov)⁠
🔸 Live performance by TYRYX (.y.r.y.x) (10 Oct)⁠
🔸 Screening of All or Nothing (2024, Taiwan, dir. Liao I-ling, Chu Po-Ying), a documentary exploring the intricate life of late conceptual artist Li Yuan-chia (3 Nov)
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More information on this year’s programme will be available soon, on our website and here, so watch this space for updates 👀⁠

https://www.blocprojects.co.uk/exhibitions-events/2026/other-absence-and-making-public

We're pleased to present Listen... Tree, River, Stone — and Beyond, an exhibition of collaborative work between visual a...
28/08/2026

We're pleased to present Listen... Tree, River, Stone — and Beyond, an exhibition of collaborative work between visual artists, an environmental movement artist, a writer and a musician. Featuring ⁠Norman Anderson, Alison Churchill, Rafael Cruz, Ranaa Farooq, Gary Manton, Poh Eng San, Kate Wells and William Yang, the exhibition is an exploration of the wisdom and mystery of Nature. ⁠
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🗓 Opening Night: Fri, 4 September, 6-9pm⁠
🕰 Exhibition Runs: 3-8 September ⁠
📍 Bloc Projects⁠, 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield ⁠
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This exhibition is part of the Hosted at Bloc Projects Hire Programme.

We are hosting a Bloc Members Summer Social! 🍹⁠⁠Saturday, 29 Aug, 2-5pm, come join us at Bloc Projects for a fun summer ...
27/08/2026

We are hosting a Bloc Members Summer Social! 🍹⁠
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Saturday, 29 Aug, 2-5pm, come join us at Bloc Projects for a fun summer social*! We welcome all our Bloc Members for a relaxed little get-together, we hope it'll be a good opportunity to meet other members and our neighbouring studio holders. ⁠
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We'll be opening up the courtyard to make the most of the summer sun. Music, drinks, nibbles, and delicious snacks by Roshni Kitchen will all be provided! Link to RSVP is in our bio 🥂 ⁠
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*Free and open to subscribers of Bloc Projects Membership. If you might be interested in joining a vibrant community of artists and creatives, our Bloc Projects Membership is always receiving new applicants. ⁠
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At just £40 a year, you'll receive: ⁠
- Exclusive exhibition opportunities with us ⁠
- Participation in the Kaleidoscope Network, including access to selected programming from partner spaces in Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, and Newcastle⁠
- Professional development through 1-2-1 sessions with the Bloc team⁠
- Highly discounted rates on gallery hire for public/private projects ⁠
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🔗 Visit blocprojects.co.uk/membership (link in bio) and tell us more about you in our joining survey. We hope to welcome you into our community!

We are hosting a Bloc Members Summer Social! 🍹⁠⁠Saturday, 29 Aug, 2-5pm, come join us at Bloc Projects for a fun summer ...
27/08/2026

We are hosting a Bloc Members Summer Social! 🍹⁠
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Saturday, 29 Aug, 2-5pm, come join us at Bloc Projects for a fun summer social*! We welcome all our Bloc Members for a relaxed little get-together, we hope it'll be a good opportunity to meet other members and our neighbouring studio holders. ⁠
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We'll be opening up the courtyard to make the most of the summer sun. Music, drinks, nibbles, and delicious snacks by Roshni Kitchen will all be provided! Link to RSVP is in our bio 🥂 ⁠
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*Free and open to subscribers of Bloc Projects Membership. If you might be interested in joining a vibrant community of artists and creatives, our Bloc Projects Membership is always receiving new applicants. ⁠
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At just £40 a year, you'll receive: ⁠
- Exclusive exhibition opportunities with us ⁠
- Participation in the Kaleidoscope Network, including access to selected programming from partner spaces in Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, and Newcastle⁠
- Professional development through 1-2-1 sessions with the Bloc team⁠
- Highly discounted rates on gallery hire for public/private projects ⁠
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🔗 Visit blocprojects.co.uk/membership (link in bio) and tell us more about you in our joining survey. We hope to welcome you into our community!

Our studio space at 2-4 Matilda Street, Meanwhile Space, is available for hire for creative work starting September! 🎨Bl...
20/08/2026

Our studio space at 2-4 Matilda Street, Meanwhile Space, is available for hire for creative work starting September! 🎨

Bloc Projects offers the use of temporary premises in the centre of Sheffield for artists and creatives. Meanwhile Space's 2nd floor is currently available and we'd love to welcome you to make the studio your own.

If you might be interested, please get in touch with us at: thomas[at]blocprojects.co.uk for more details.

It's a wrap for this year's Members Show: When Things Fail to Cohere, as well as for our Members Edit: Relief! ⁠⁠A big t...
19/08/2026

It's a wrap for this year's Members Show: When Things Fail to Cohere, as well as for our Members Edit: Relief! ⁠
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A big thank you to everyone who has been a part of making these exhibitions come to life, especially the talented artists — Alana Lake, Lucy Marriott, Romane Courdacher, Ngo Chun Tse, and Victoria ⁠Sharples We're so proud to be able to showcase our Bloc members' work, and to be able to welcome our community in to view their exceptional artworks. ⁠Thank you as well to our selector, artist-curator ⁠Jun Rui Lo, for lending their careful eye to the project. ⁠
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If you've dropped by to visit these exhibitions, we hope you enjoyed them thoroughly! We're gearing up to launch new/returning projects and can't wait to share them with you soon, so do watch this space 👀

Our new and brilliant Bloc Billboard by april forrest lin 林森 is now on display! ☀️We are delighted to present what stor...
13/08/2026

Our new and brilliant Bloc Billboard by april forrest lin 林森 is now on display! ☀️

We are delighted to present what stories live inside your walls?, a new billboard commission by artist and curator april forrest lin 林森. Exploring the rental experience as a kind of modern horror, the work takes the viewer within their domestic and personal spaces to explore what they have born witness to. Drawing from their own experience renting property in London, april forrest lin 林森 is feeling out histories of ownership, the lopsided relationship between tenants and landlord and the intimacies of homemaking. Where the visual highlights the external sediments of a room — damp, dust and peeling paint — the audio is an invitation to listen to the walls: what do they know? What conditions make it (im)possible to have a home? The piece is an extension of Debtford, their ongoing horror non-fiction film project about a room they used to rent in Deptford, southeast London.

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april forrest lin 林森 (b. Stockholm, 1996; they/them) is a London-based artist, curator, and film programmer. Their interdisciplinary practice invokes thematic portals of multispecies epistemologies, the archival and the anti-archival, trans embodiment and the vernacular of the diasporic. Their work has been screened and exhibited at arts institutions, festivals, galleries, universities, and DIY spaces internationally, including the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, the Barbican Centre, FACT Liverpool and HAU Berlin.

Bloc Projects is pleased to present Nine Ladies, an exhibition by Naomi Dodds in collaboration with Katharine Lander - f...
07/08/2026

Bloc Projects is pleased to present Nine Ladies, an exhibition by Naomi Dodds in collaboration with Katharine Lander - featuring Annie Howe, Beverly Ord, Jane Sixmith, Jane Stanley, Janet Andrews, Lydia Gilroy, Mary MacDonald, Rosie Scrace, Sarah Emerson, Sophia Ogonda, Sue Lander and Teresa Lacey.

🗓 Opening Reception: 22 August, 1–6pm
🕰 Exhibition on View: 22–28 August
📍 Bloc Projects
71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield, England

At the highest point of Stanton Moor in the Peak District of Derbyshire, nine standing stones are set and guarded by an orchard of willow trees. Their story, preserved as a pagan legend, tells of a group of women who danced on the Sabbath and were consequently turned to stone - immortalised in an instant of bliss.

An anthropomorphised soundscape gives centre stage to the women once condemned for their perceived misdemeanour, reawakening them through poetic revolution. An all-female cast connected to the local area brings this tale of the past into the climate of today through feminine mysticism and collective voice.

This exhibition is part of the Hosted at Bloc Projects Hire Programme.

It's the last week to catch When Things Fail to Cohere in our gallery if you haven't already! ⁠⁠When Things Fail to Cohe...
05/08/2026

It's the last week to catch When Things Fail to Cohere in our gallery if you haven't already! ⁠
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When Things Fail to Cohere is a group exhibition by artists from the Bloc Projects Membership, selected by artist-curator Jun Rui Lo and presented under our annual Members Show. This year's works explore different stages of uncertainty through sculpture, installation, moving image, print and text. ⁠
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In Jun Rui Lo's words: ⁠
"Alana Lake’s q***r minimalist sculptures refer to the force and violence that belie structures of power. Similarly emphasising material realities, Lucy Marriott creates mythical flesh-like forms with rubber tubes and rose thorns that play out the lived experiences of q***r bodies. Romane Courdacher assembles photographs, sounds and found objects to unexpectedly conjure a spectral presence. And by skewing our visual perception, Ngo Chun Tse’s video installation is an uncanny reflection on movement and displacement. Keenly destabilising, When Things Fail to Cohere considers how we navigate and position the social realities that shape our lives." ⁠
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📅 Till 8 August 2026⁠
🕰️ Opening Hours: Wed-Sat, 11-5pm ⁠
📍 Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield ⁠
🎟️ Free Entry ⁠
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Image Credits: James Clarkson, 2026

Just two weeks left to come down to see this year's Members Show: When Things Fail to Cohere 🌠 ⁠⁠Selected by artist-cura...
30/07/2026

Just two weeks left to come down to see this year's Members Show: When Things Fail to Cohere 🌠 ⁠
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Selected by artist-curator Jun Rui Lo (), the exhibition features works by artists Romane Courdacher (⁠), Alana Lake (.studio⁠), Lucy Marriott (⁠) and Ngo Chun Tse (⁠).

Their works collectively explore themes of uncertainty, power and the q***r body, and invites us to consider how we navigate and position the social realities that shape our lives.⁠
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📅 Till 8 August 2026⁠
🕰️ Opening Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm ⁠
📍 Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield ⁠
🎟️ Free Entry ⁠
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Image Credits: James Clarkson, 2026

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