RELAY [02]
Platform A, Middlesbrough
19th March - 14th May 2026
Preview 19th March, 6-8pm
RELAY [02] is the second stage of a group exhibition in two parts, co-curated by hardcopy* and Thomas Griffiths. Staged across two cities that share a common industrial heritage - Sheffield and Middlesbrough - the exhibition brings together a diverse range of concerns, considering how objects and surfaces carry layered histories and reveal the residues of industrial processes, environmental change, and human activity.
hardcopy* is a publishing and curatorial platform established by Nick Kennedy in 2024, that commissions, produces and distributes editions made in collaboration with artists.
Each artist included in RELAY is a past, present, or future hardcopy* collaborator.
RELAY [01] was presented at Gloam Gallery, Sheffield, in November 2025 and included work by Tony Charles, Rachel Deakin, Nick Kennedy, and Will Hughes. Limited edition prints and multiples are available through both Platform A and hardcopyshop.com, with new artist editions to be released throughout the exhibition.
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Gentle Revolts - Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
4 December 2025-31 January 2026
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.