160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Current:
Birley Studios:
Apotropaics
Apotropaics
2026
Bijan Amini-Alavijeh:
something soft suspends
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)
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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
Birley Studios: Apotropaics
GLOAM presents: Apotropaics with Birley Studios.
Featuring artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant
Tracy Hill
Julie Mayer
Rob Mullender-Ross
Anthony Padgett
Norman Payne
Beata Podstawa
Rita Robson
Heather Ross
Jayne Simpson
Opening Night:
05 June, 2026, 6–9pm
Open Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment until 20 June
The exhibition forms one half of GLOAM’s exchange programme 2026, which sees GLOAM partner with other artist-led initiatives to form an exchange of ideas, skill, art, and space. This year GLOAM is working with Birley Studios which is an artist studios based in Preston, Lancashire. As part of the exchange GLOAM is hosting an exhibition of work by studio holders. The second half of the exchange will see GLOAM studio holders & directors exhibit at The Birley in the coming year. GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house, Two Queens and General Practice.
‘Apotropaic’ refers to something intended to ward off evil or bad luck – an unusual word for a familiar idea. A function of art can sometimes be thought of as exactly this for the artist. Perhaps we work on our art because of the necessity of keeping ourselves from darkness, howsoever construed. Given that it’s an adjective, the plural derivation of ‘apotropaic’ may seem nonsensical, but it gestures toward something. The artists in this show each have their own specific ways of keeping that necessary light on, and the plural places the term within the field of actions ... this turningaway from the bad is as much the act of making – of a deeply held practice – as the object beingmade. In increasingly dark times, this is an imperative.
Rob Mullender-Ross (Director of The Birley Studios). May 2026.
Curated by Rob Mullender-Ross & Stu Burke
Supported by: Sheffield City Council
160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Current:
Birley Studios:
Apotropaics
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