Abi Charlesworth: to rest amongst the blades

GLOAM Presents: to rest amongst the blades, with Abi Charlesworth
Open: Saturdays 12-4pm & by
Responding to a body of ongoing text, poetically exploring notions of depression via traces in the body through landscape and archaeology. A realisation of a journey emerges out of a crevasse where planes of memories, objects and emotions are passed through. Sedimentary layers unfold a personal narrative, encoded with fossils and absent figures. Ceramic and cast fragments hold the petrified remains of object encounters. Artificial fossils show a preoccupation with a dystopian future, concerned with a debris ridden landscape where items hold no value. Charlesworth is asking what physical traces will we leave behind and what traces we leave on each other. Abstracted archaeological aids are used to hold excavated sculptures, pulled from her inner depths. Held in place, they are carefully displayed as an open wound in the dissection of grief.
www.abicharlesworth.co.uk
@abi.charlesworth
Supported by:
Haarlem Artspace
Kristian Day
Playing Fields
The Visal Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA)
Henry Moore Grants
Sheffield City Council
Curated by Thomas Griffiths

160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
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2025
Julia McKinlay:
Constructing the Surface
Lucie Kordačová & Miroslava Večeřová:
From Ancient Waters to Arid Landscapes
Stu Burke: Momentary Sculptures
2024
Groundmouth: Stomach of Silt
Sam Blackwood, Grace Clifford, Sam Hutchinson, Conor Rogers:
Embers
Speculative Proxy, Alexandra Searle & Joel Wycherley:
Locusts of the Sickly Sun
Group Show:
Yellow June (Juin Jaune)
Serf at GLOAM:
Ground Test
Semi Precious & Yasmin Vardi:
Sun is Out
Madeline Adams:
Entropy
Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova:
Arid Landscapes and Ancient Waters
2023
GLOAM at Serf:
Testing Ground
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Tread Softly
Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham:
Material Action
Lucy Crouch & Matthew Vaughan: Tracing Matter
Jack Ginno:
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Jonny Davey & Sam Francis Read: Bogland
Dale Homles:
Welcome to Map Making Guild of Drystone Walling One-Eyed Giants
GLOAM at Eastside Projects:
If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day
GLOAM at Two Queens:
Studio-Holder Show
Nisa Khan:
Undress me with your eyes...
2022
Harold Offeh:
Creating Patterns
Group Show:
Beneath the Pewter Sky
Victoria Sharples:
Offering from the River
Celeste McEvoy:
Forehead On The Glass
Group Show:
An Expanding Field
Two Queens:
Members Show 2022
Alistair Woods:
Doves & Crossbones
2021
School of The Damned:
Blood From a Stone
Flo Main:
FOCM Spring Summer
General Practice:
Method Lab Part Two
Stella Baraklianou:
The Magician
Joe Singleton:
Million Tons Per Annum
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