160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Current:
Bijan Amini-Alavijeh:
something soft suspends
2026
Rose Blood:
1208. One Two Nothing Infinity. We're All Going To Die. I Love You!
Jonny Davey & Rose Blood:
ERT AGM
2025
Hardcopy* x GLOAM:
Relay [1]
Dani Abulhawa: Saltwater Crossing
Rebecca Halliwell Sutton:
From skin to land, from walls to worlds
Dani
Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West:
Play Grounds
Members Show:
GLOAM X free house
Members Show:
free house X GLOAM
Abi Charlesworth:
to rest amongst the blades
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
Nathan Walker:
Twenty Truant Shapes
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
Kelan Andrews, Brianna Beckford, Alana Lake & Renee Nie:
Tread Softly
Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham:
Material Action
Lucy Crouch & Matthew Vaughan:
Tracing Matter
Roo Dhissou:
Courses for Dis-Course(s)
Jack Ginno:
Mirror
Jonny Davey & Sam Francis Read:
Bogland
Dale Holmes:
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 at GLOAM:
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
2017-20
Archive (coming soon)
Newsletter
GLOAM is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space located in Sheffield City Centre. Since 2020, GLOAM has been run by co-directors (Stu Burke, Victoria Sharples & Thomas Lee Griffiths) at 160 Arundel Street; the former location of the DIY music venue, The Lughole. Previous co-directors include: Mark Riddington, Sam Francis Read & Rose Hedy Squires.
Copyright 2022 GLOAM LTD
Website designed by Sam Francis Read
Bijan Amini-Alavijeh: something soft suspends
GLOAM presents: ‘something soft suspends’, by artist Bijan Amini-Alavijeh.
The exhibition mimics elements of nature and architecture, with focus on gentle gestures and form through destructive processes. Drawing from fundamentals of sculpture and architecture, alterations to the gallery setting shift the dance of shadow and light. Something soft suspends encourages slow observation and stillness.
Opening Night:
10 April, 6-9pm
Open Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment until 3 May
Bijan Amini-Alavijeh’s practice investigates how we perceive and interpret form and space, engaging with abstraction, ornamentation, nature, and architecture. Through sculpture, he works with materials that foreground haptic perception, allowing for tactile immediacy that invites close engagement. By abstracting fragments of his observations, he understands and investigates how form can transcend and capture attention through slow looking. A singular shape is often used, avoiding complexities of line and form, keeping close to the source of sacred geometry. His choice of processes follows a similar rhythm, letting spontaneity and intuition play a key role.Initiated through drawing and developed using intuitive, repetitive processes, he favours accessible and less formal materials such as plaster, paper, wire, aluminium and wood. Where aluminium is present, his chosen method causes harsh and destructive reactions. As the surface bronzes, blackens, and tarnishes, it creates a base to respond to with additions of hard geometry. The interplay between material and process creates an imagined landscape that reflects the interactions between the elements and nature. His work often builds into larger-scale installations where light plays a key part as it casts shadows, reflects, refracts, and alters the atmospheric setting of the work. This is guided by a quiet attention to how space holds thought and how forms, when pared back, can invite reflection and transform the physical into the contemplative.
Curated by Thomas Griffiths @tlgrrrr
160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Current:
Bijan Amini-Alavijeh:
something soft suspends
2026
2025
Dani Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West:
Play Grounds
Members Show:
GLOAM X free house
Members Show:
free house X GLOAM
Abi Charlesworth:
to rest amongst the blades
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
Kelan Andrews, Brianna Beckford, Alana Lake & Renee Nie:
Tread Softly
Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham:
Material Action
Lucy Crouch & Matthew Vaughan: Tracing Matter
Jack Ginno:
Mirror
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
2017-2020
Archive
Newsletter
GLOAM is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space located in Sheffield City Centre. Since 2020, GLOAM has been run by co-directors (Stu Burke, Victoria Sharples & Thomas Lee Griffiths) at 160 Arundel Street; the former location of the DIY music venue, The Lughole. Previous co-directors include: Mark Riddington, Sam Francis Read & Rose Hedy Squires.
Copyright 2022 GLOAM LTD
Website designed by Sam Francis Read