Site Gallery
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The Site Gallery is an art gallery
in Sheffield
, England
. It specialises in multimedia
based art.
The gallery is based at Brown Street in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter
. It is an international centre for contemporary art, and maintains an extensive programme of exhibitions, regularly hosting conferences, artists talks etc. The gallery also houses the Imaging Innovation Lab (iLab), a facility which provides a well-resourced production centre for still and moving image-making, which aims to foster the commissioning new work and providing a base for residencies.
The Site's two gallery spaces are used for exhibitions of contemporary visual art. These spaces are flexible in nature and can thus permit work to be shown not only in natural light, but also under various artificial lighting conditions or even blacked out.
The gallery has hosted individual shows of high profile artists, including the first UK solo show of Sophie Calle
. Other events have included exhibitions by Susan Hiller, Breda Beban, Mat Collishaw and George Chakravarthi, Marie-Jo Lafontaine and Wendy McMurdo
. Other UK premieres at The Site include those by Maria Marshall, Forced Entertainment, Annee Olofsson.
Off-site projects where new, commissioned work by Mark Wallinger
, Brighid Lowe, Andrew Stones and Frances Hegarty, and Impossible Theatre were organized by The Site at Sheffield's Midland Station.
In 2003 The Site premiered 6 new commissions in the crossover area between performance, digital media and installation, "Shooting Live Artists", in association with the Arts Council of England and BTV festival.
All the gallery's exhibitions are free to enter and are contextualised with educational and/or practical events
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It specialises in multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
based art.
The gallery is based at Brown Street in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter
Cultural Industries Quarter
The Cultural Industries Quarter is a district in the city centre of Sheffield, England, and one of the eleven Quarters designated in the 1994 City Centre Strategy...
. It is an international centre for contemporary art, and maintains an extensive programme of exhibitions, regularly hosting conferences, artists talks etc. The gallery also houses the Imaging Innovation Lab (iLab), a facility which provides a well-resourced production centre for still and moving image-making, which aims to foster the commissioning new work and providing a base for residencies.
The Site's two gallery spaces are used for exhibitions of contemporary visual art. These spaces are flexible in nature and can thus permit work to be shown not only in natural light, but also under various artificial lighting conditions or even blacked out.
The gallery has hosted individual shows of high profile artists, including the first UK solo show of Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
. Other events have included exhibitions by Susan Hiller, Breda Beban, Mat Collishaw and George Chakravarthi, Marie-Jo Lafontaine and Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo is a British artist who specialises in photography and digital media. She attended Edinburgh College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where she first became interested in photography.-Career:Her work centres around the relationship...
. Other UK premieres at The Site include those by Maria Marshall, Forced Entertainment, Annee Olofsson.
Off-site projects where new, commissioned work by Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo , and State Britain , a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007...
, Brighid Lowe, Andrew Stones and Frances Hegarty, and Impossible Theatre were organized by The Site at Sheffield's Midland Station.
In 2003 The Site premiered 6 new commissions in the crossover area between performance, digital media and installation, "Shooting Live Artists", in association with the Arts Council of England and BTV festival.
All the gallery's exhibitions are free to enter and are contextualised with educational and/or practical events