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Department of French School of Modern Languages and Linguistics. University of Sheffield. Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Nicolas Moulin. February – June, 2009. Nicolas Moulin, Leverhulme artist in residence, February-May 2009.
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Department of FrenchSchool of Modern Languages and Linguistics University of Sheffield
Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Nicolas Moulin February – June, 2009
Nicolas Moulin, Leverhulme artist in residence, February-May 2009 • In February 2009, Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson was awarded £12,500 from The Leverhulme Trust to invite internationally renowned artist, Nicolas Moulin, to work as artist in residence in the Department of French • The residency culminated in an exhibition at Site Gallery, sponsored by the French Embassy in London
Creative task day with students… • Nicolas Moulin worked with students from English, French, Architecture and Town and Regional Planning to explore the question of regeneration…
Leverhulme Artist in Residence:Creative task day with students
Leverhulme Artist in Residence:Creative task day with students
Nicolas Moulin, Leverhulme Artist in Residence:Exhibition at Site Gallery, June – Aug 2009
Press coverage of Nicolas Moulin’s exhibition at Site Gallery • ‘It’s rare that an artist’s brief association with a city will tell you anything of note about the city itself, but Nicolas Moulin’s three-month residency at the University of Sheffield appears to be an exception. Moulin’s images of paranoid cities and impossible industrial structures demonstrate a hard surrealism entirely appropriate to Sheffield, a city that – though it seems rather ashamed of the fact – has the finest Modernist architecture of any English city outside of London.’ (Owen Hatherley, Frieze, July 2009)
Press coverage of Nicolas Moulin’s exhibition at Site Gallery • ‘you should go and see the Nicolas Moulin show at the Site Gallery in Sheffield if you get a chance - the photos and the film are brilliant: menacing catastrophes of post-apocalyptic architecture-gone-wrong, with the ambivalence of twentieth-century politics in the background…’ (Cinestatic / Infinite Thought, July 2009)
Leverhulme artist in residence:Public Symposium, June 13th 2009 • The six workshops organised during the course of the residency culminated in a symposium about regeneration at Site Gallery. Invited speakers included: • Terry O’Connor (Forced Entertainment) • Christophe Egret (RIBA, CABE, Studio Egret West) • Dr Steven Gartside (MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University) • Dr Anna Jorgensen (University of Sheffield) • Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson (University of Sheffield) • Cllr Tim Rippon (Sheffield City Council)
Channel, 2006 • In October 2005, Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson was awarded £8500 from the Knowledge Transfer Opportunities Fund to work in collaboration with Cupola Contemporary Art (Sheffield) and its owner/director, Karen Sherwood • The aim was to explore the ways in which the infrastructures and institutions of contemporary art in France compare with those in the UK
Channel, 2006 • The Knowledge Transfer project culminated in a three-venue exhibition, held at Sylvester Space, Cupola and Flowers in the Window
Channel, 2006 • The exhibition featured emerging and internationally renowned artists: • Valerie Jouve • Djamel Tatah • Greyworld • Natacha Lesueur • Maud Haya Baviera • Lucy Orta
Sponsors of the Channel exhibition included: • Arts Council England • DLA Piper • French Embassy in London • Alumni Foundation (University of Sheffield) • Inspiral (Sheffield)
Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture • Scheduled for June 2010 • Partners include: • Site Gallery • Showroom Cinema • University of Sheffield • Algerian Ministry of Culture • AARC (Agence algérienne pour le rayonnement culturel)
Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture, 2010 • Exhibition of contemporary Algerian art, to be curated by Kader Attia
Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture, 2010 • Film season at Showroom Cinema • Concerts and community events • International conference, featuring keynote speaker Benjamin Stora
For further information about any of these projects, please contact: • Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson Department of French, SOMLAL Jessop West University of Sheffield S3 7RA a.j.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk