160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE


Current


Dani Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West:
Play Grounds


2025


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


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Dani Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West: Play Grounds





GLOAM presents: Play Grounds 
with Dani Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West.

Opening Friday June 27 6–9pm

Exhibition continues: June 28–July 20 
Open Saturday & Sunday 12–4, or by appointment

'Play Grounds' explores the intersections of skateboarding and space, architecture and play, within contemporary art.

Descamps' photographs, whilst devoid of human presence, capture the interaction between skateboarders and city architecture by documenting the marks, and scars on the civic skin of our urban landscapes, whilst his posters memorialise his own sculptural interventions within the city. Designed to be skated, Descamps' sculptures are often fleeting interjections on the urban topography, ephemeral interventions existing afterwards only through retrospective posters.

West also explores the gestural traces of skateboarding in her video work, 'Skate the Sky Film, in which skateboarders became painters in the Turbine Hall, using their wheels to paint with ink, melon juice and Ho-Ho's directly onto the film which had recorded the LA sk. Just as Yves Klein defied gravity by "leaping into the void", West's video inverts natural physics by having skateboarders skating on the sky - catching air.

Finally, Abulhawa guides us, with her audio work, to re-navigate spaces; skateparks, skate spots. She invites us to consider how we use these spaces physically and socially, and how we can make them more inclusive. The work can be taken out into the city and listened to directly in the urban landscape, where the listener then becomes a performer of the city, following the narration and instructions for movement, to explore and reimagine the site.

Curated by Stu Burke

Supported by Sheffield City Council

160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE


Current


Dani Abulhawa, Pierre Descamps & Jennifer West: 
Play Grounds


2025


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


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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