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GLOAM Gallery, 160 Arundel Street, Sheffield (2026)

18/06/2026

〰️THIS SATURDAY IS THE LAST CHANCE TO SEE〰️

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley

Open Saturday 12-4pm

Images 1-4: Tracy Hill
Tracy Hill combines drawing, print and installation to explore the possibilities of linking art and science to reveal our fragile relationship with global living systems, visualising the (in)visible. The intersection between our sensory, aesthetic and digital worlds is where Hill situates her art works: a hybrid space where a geological understanding of the land informs an embodied experience of the energy contained within it.

Image 5-8: Practical Sound
Rob Mullender-Ross works with sound, sculpture, performance and video and is interested in how rituals articulated through or constitutive of sound, sociality, moving image, and objects, and can be considered (to paraphrase the anthropologist Alfred Gell) as agents of enchantment.

Rob is also the director of The Birley Artists Studios and gallery and co-curated this exhibition.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

16/06/2026

⚠️ LAST CHANCE TO SEE ⚠️

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley
Open Saturday 12-4pm

Images 1-3: Jayne Simpson
Jayne Simpson’s paintings, often bodily, entwine figurativeness with gestural, abstract layering of brushwork. The colours, and levels of opacity and transparency are metaphors in the passing of time, the brushwork reflects experiences we seek to hide or forget and those we need to unarchive and return to.

Image 4-7: Heather Ross
Heather Ross has a multi-disciplinary practice, as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo ‘Artist A & Artist B’ (with Dr. Jackie Haynes). Her work is often in dialogue with historical and archival material, which is edited and re-worked using re-construction and repetition, and/or translated into new materials and forms. She creates scenarios through which details of her subjects can be scrutinised, often seeking to generate a more embodied experience with a distanced subject.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

exhibition

14/06/2026

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley

Last week to catch this exhibition!
5th - 20th June 2026
Open Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment

Images 1-3: Anthony David Padgett
Anthony Padgett is a ‘post contemporary’ artist, dance teacher, event planner, art project manager. A variety of forms - painting, sculpture, performance, dance, text and publishing. A variety of styles - representational, abstract, found objects, printed text, performance. A variety of materials - oil on canvas, stone, bronze, paper, the body, concepts. Themes include Art Categorisation Systems, Artist Unionisation, Computer Manufacturing, Swing dance & Rock n Roll.

Image 4-7:
A thin skin of dead, flat gouache wash settles into the paper’s surface. The colour of misty morning Welsh sea is held with pencil and ink as an illusion of order.An abstract thought is made visible.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

11/06/2026

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley

OPEN THIS SATURDAY ✨

5th - 20th June 2026
Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment

Images 1-2: Sarah Grant
Sarah Grant’s work explores the potential for painting to hold psychological space, by drawing on objects of memory or charged association. The gestures are fleeting moments, cropped details from polaroid photographs or found imagery which convey a sense of temporality.

Image 3:
Norman Payne’s work is informed by the rituals, objects and practices of folklore and our ancient past. His work in this exhibition makes reference to the traditions and customs surrounding apotropaic markings (those for warding off evil) that were historically carved into points of entrance to buildings such as window sills, chimney breasts and door frames.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

09/06/2026

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with

5th - 20th June 2026
Open Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment

Images 1-2:
“Beata Podstawa’s fascination with design and architecture stems from childhood memories of her family coming together to build three houses on a shared plot of land. Through making, building together, and creative play, she began to understand learning as something deeply connected to material exploration and shared labour.”

Images 3-4:
“Rita Robson is particularly drawn to wood engraving as, through the ‘letting in of light’, it is possible to create incredibly detailed and atmospheric images. More recently she has been drawn to examining plants and other natural forms in very close detail, finding beauty and calm in expressing their abstracted form.”

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Co-curated by &

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens (Leicester) and General Practice (Lincoln).

06/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Apotropaics last night

WE ARE OPEN TODAY 12-4pm

The exhibition continues on Saturdays 12–4pm and by appointment: between June 6 - June 20.

Featuring 11 artists from

Co-curated by Stu Burke and Rob Mullender-Ross

This exhibition forms the first half of our GLOAM exchange 2026 with The Birley 🖤

29/05/2026

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley Studios

🥂 Opening Night: 5th June 6-9pm
Exhibition continues: 6th - 20th June 2026
Open Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment
GLOAM Gallery, Arundel St, Sheffield, S1 4RE

Exhibiting artists:

Co-curated by &

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

Established in 2014, their project spaces exist to support critically and socially engaged contemporary art practice, as well as associated community or activist projects. Hosting workshops, residencies, exhibitions and live events, as well as outside/off-site projects, we support artists who are testing out new ideas, developing collaborations, and taking an experimental approach to practice. As well as the project spaces they also house studios that offer dedicated space for up to 30 artists, working in a range of media.

Later in the programme GLOAM will be travelling to Preston for the second part of the exchange (dates TBC).

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens (Leicester) and General Practice (Lincoln).

-led exhibition

05/05/2026

Bijan Amini-Alavijeh’s ‘something soft suspends’ has now come to a close. Many thanks to those that came along to encounter their incredible work 👀

A huge thank you to Bijan for their work, care and commitment; it’s been a pleasure to realise this exhibition with them 🤍

Many thanks to James Clarkson & Victoria Sharples for documentation of the exhibition

Coming up next GLOAM’s annual exchange programme 👀 (more information soon!)

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02/05/2026

Today is the last day to see our current exhibition ‘something soft suspends’ by Bijan Amini-Alavijeh. A perfect day to witness the light softly bathe the work.

Open today 12-4pm 👀

Bijan’s work often builds into larger-scale installations where light plays a key part as it casts shadows, reflects, refracts, and alters the atmospheric setting of the work. This is guided by a quiet attention to how space holds thought and how forms, when pared back, can invite reflection and transform the physical into the contemplative.

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01/05/2026

It’s the final weekend to visit our current exhibition ‘something soft suspends’ by

Open Saturday, 12-4pm 👀

The exhibition mimics elements of nature and architecture, with focus on gentle gestures and form through destructive processes. Drawing from fundamentals of sculpture and architecture, alterations to the gallery setting shift the dance of shadow and light. Something soft suspends encourages slow observation and stillness.

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