Gentle Revolts - Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
4 December 2025-31 January 2026
Launch event: Thu 4 December, 6-8pm
Curator's tour for Bloc Projects Members: 5-6pm
Bloc Projects are excited to present a cross-section of work by practitioners who were selected to take part in our annual Bloc Projects' Members Show 2024-5. The works by Simona Brinkmann, Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova, Ash Martin and Lucy Wright were selected by artist-curator Umulkhayr Mohamed, who has brought them under the title of Gentle Revolts:
'It has been a pleasure to curate Bloc Projects' latest Members Show. Gentle Revolts brings together four artists whose practices share a sensitivity for transformation, play, and the undoing of established orders. I was drawn to each artist I selected, as they all engage in an act of re-articulation, using material, narrative and form to explore how traditions might be unmade and remade, in ways hat gently reclaim the power to shape culture from established authorities. Their works are bound by a lightness of touch that belies their conceptual depth, inviting us all to enter spaces of curiosity and re-examination. Across the exhibition, there is a shared sense of openness and ease, a lowering of defences that welcomes participation in this collective reimagining of how we see, remember and belong.
Lucy's work anchors the show through its fusion of folk histories with contemporary questions of care, kinship, and resistance, transforming traditional motifs into agents for inclusivity and social renewal. Simona's precise reconfiguration of found and fabricated objects extends this conversation into spatial politics, examining how the infrastructures of daily life can be metabolised and re-conceived. Lucie and Miroslava's layered, ecofeminist practice draws from myth and ritual to address the interdependence between humans and the more-than-human world, while Ash's vivid and humorous mythologies rework spiritual and personal symbols into playful, introspective forms. Together, their works speak to the possibility of joy within critique and tenderness within transformation.
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SPRING 2026
Relay [2], Platform-A, Middlesborough.
Group exhibition co-curated by hardcopy* and Thomas Griffiths staged in two parts, across Sheffield and Middlesborough - two cities that share a common industrial heritage.
Across both sites, the exhibition will consider how objects and surfaces carry layered histories, revealing the residues of industrial processes, environmental change, and human activity, and examining how materials are continually shaped, transformed, and reinterpreted.
Relay [2] featuring Thomas Griffiths, Charlotte Dawson, Simona Brinkmann, and James Clarkson will open at Platform A, Middlesbrough in spring 2026.
Relay [1] opened at GLOAM, Sheffield, in November 2025, featuring artists based in the North East of England: Tony Charles, Rachel Deakin, Nick Kennedy and Will Hughes.
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