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Psalter Lane
Psalter Lane was the location of a former campus of Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. One of the former polytechnic's three bases, the campus officially closed on 31 August 2008 and work to demolish all but the old Bluecoat School building began in March 2010. Demolition work was scheduled to be completed by September 2010. It was situated further out of central Sheffield than the City campus on Pond Street and the Collegiate Crescent campus. Psalter Lane was mainly concerned with ACES (Faculties of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences) courses, although a number of courses within the Faculty of Development and Society were also taught on site, such as film studies. Facilities The library at Psalter Lane specialised in the arts and media. The Special Collections included an original of Stubbs' ''The Anatomy of the Horse'' (1766) and a collection of photographs from the miners strike. All Special Collections have moved to the main City Campus site. Notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield station, Sheffield railway station, while the Collegiate Crescent Campus is about two miles away in the Broomhall Estate off Ecclesall Road in south-west Sheffield. A third campus at Brent Cross Town in the London Borough of Barnet is expected to open for the 2025–26 academic year. The university is the List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, largest university in the UK (out of ) with students (of whom 4,400 are international students), 4,494 staff and 708 courses. History Foundation and growth In 1843, as the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom, industrial revolution gathered pace and Sheffield was on the verge of becoming the steel, tool and cutlery making capital of the world, the Sheffield School of Design was founded following lobbying by arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreet Ashery
Oreet Ashery (; born 1966 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. Career Ashery received her BA (distinction) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 1992, followed by her MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins in 2000. Her work explores ideological, social and gender constructions through an interdisciplinary practice, spanning installation, video, live art, and 2-D image making. Ashery's earlier work was often produced as a male character of her own creation, exploring gender relationships and those between woman and cultural identity. As part of her family history, Ashery's most consistent character is Marcus Fisher, was an orthodox Jewish man found in works such as ''Dancing with Men'' and ''Marcus Fisher , Say Cheese'', Ashery's more recent work has been based on Mayakovsky's 1921 play ''Mystery-Bouffe''. This work confronts social and class biases alongside issues of political power and agency. Her performance at the Tate Mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sheppard
David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (6 March 1929 – 5 March 2005) was a Church of England bishop who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth, before serving as Bishop of Liverpool from 1975 to 1997. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played Test cricket, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests. Early life Sheppard was born in Reigate and brought up in Charlwood, Surrey. His father was a solicitor, and a cousin of Tubby Clayton, founder of Toc H; his mother was the daughter of the artist and illustrator, William James Affleck Shepherd (1866–1946). His family moved to Sussex after his father died in the late 1930s. He was educated at Northcliffe House School in Bognor Regis and then at Sherborne School, Dorset, where his cricketing talent first emerged. After National Service as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment, he then went to study history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1947, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ravenscroft
Thomas James Dalglish Ravenscroft (born 6 February 1980) is a British radio presenter and disc jockey. He previously hosted a BBC Radio 6 Music show featuring new and unsigned music. He is the son of the late DJ John Peel. Career Working initially in TV as a production assistant, Ravenscroft also developed as a journalist researching new music. Following the death of his father, John Peel, in 2004, Ravenscroft was involved as researcher with the Channel 4 television documentary '' John Peel's Record Box'' and, with his mother Sheila and other members of the family, in the completion of his father's autobiography ''Margrave of the Marshes'', unfinished at his death. In November 2005, to coincide with John Peel's posthumous induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, Ravenscroft organised the production and release of a tribute single to him, a cover version of one of Peel's favourite songs, Buzzcocks's '' Ever Fallen in Love''. Alongside the song's original vocalist, Pete Shelley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Phillips (graphic Designer)
Nick Phillips is a graphic designer who co-founded The Designers Republic and has produced award-winning work for Sony games. Background Phillips studied sculpture at Sheffield Hallam's Psalter Lane college.Andrew CollinsDesign o' the Times ''NME'', 11 February 1989, retrieved 29 May 2015 He played organ in an early line-up of World of Twist. Through the Sheffield music scene, Phillips became friends with graphic designer Ian Anderson. Together they set up The Designers Republic in July 1986.Liz FarrellyReputations: Ian Anderson ''Eye Magazine'', Spring 2009, retrieved 29 May 2015 Career The Designers Republic As a duo, Phillips and Anderson have been described as 'the design gurus associated with electronic music'.Cláudia AlmeidaIan Anderson, English, ''Up Magazine'', 30 September 2011, retrieved 29 May 2015 They produced album artwork for artists such as Pop Will Eat Itself, Pulp, Supergrass, The Orb, and Warp Records including Aphex Twin. ''Q magazine'' included a D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created '' Wallace & Gromit'', '' Creature Comforts'', '' Chicken Run'', '' Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with '' Creature Comforts'' (1989), '' The Wrong Trousers'' (1993), '' A Close Shave'' (1995) and '' Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' (2005). He has also received seven BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for '' A Matter of Loaf and Death'', which was believed to be the most-watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film '' Chicken Run'' is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film. In 1985 Park joined Aardman Animations, based in Bristol, and for his work in animation he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Peter Blake to appear in a 2012 version of Blake's most famous artwork - the Beatles' '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mellor (designer)
David Rogerson Mellor (5 October 1930 – 7 May 2009) was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer. Regarded as one of the best-known designers in Britain, 22 October 1998, Kenneth Powell, Architects Journal. Retrieved 13 August 2008 Mellor specialised in metalwork and especially cutlery. He also produced many other designs, including for bus shelters and the traffic light system in use across the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies, and British overseas territories. Early life and training Mellor was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, where his father was a toolmaker for the Sheffield Twist Drill Company. From the age of eleven, Mellor attended the Junior Art Dep ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hoyland
John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters. Early life John Hoyland was born on 12 October 1934, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to a working-class family, and educated at Sheffield School of Art and Crafts within the junior art department (1946–51) before progressing to Sheffield College of Art (1951–56), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1956–60), where Sir Charles Wheeler, the then President of the Royal Academy, ordered that Hoyland's paintings – all abstracts – be removed from the walls of the Diploma Galleries. It was only the intervention of Peter Greenham (Acting Keeper of the Schools) that saved the day, when he reminded Wheeler that Hoyland had painted admired landscapes and figurative paintings– evidence that he could "paint properly". In 1953, Hoyland went abroad for the first time, hitch-hiking with a friend to southern France. After the bleakness of Sheffie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kid Acne
Kid Acne (real name Ed Bradbury, born 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist and emcee. He was born in Lilongwe, Malawi. He grew up in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and moved to Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England to study Fine Art when he was 17. He spent his formative years painting graffiti, creating fanzines and making limited run records on his own Invisible Spies imprint. Since then he has released 7 studio albums as Kid Acne, most notibly ''Hauntology Codes'', produced by Spectacular Diagnostics and released on Lex Records in 2023. Discography Albums *''Rap Traffic'' (LP) / Invisible Spies 2001 *''Council Pop'' (LP) / Invisible Spies 2003 *''Romance Ain't Dead'' (LP) / Lex Records 2007 *''Have A Word'' (LP) / Lex Records 2019 *''Null And Void'' (LP) / Lewis Recordings 2021 *''Hauntology Codes'' (LP) / Lex Records 2023 *''Totemic Template (Edna & Friends Vol. 1)'' / Invisible Spies 2024 Appears on *MONGRELS – Slingshots (7") / C U Next Tuesday 1997 *Toah Dynamic – H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its southern suburbs were transferred from Derbyshire to the city council. It is the largest settlement in South Yorkshire and the third largest of Northern England. The city is in the North Midlands, in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the valleys of the River Don with its four tributaries: the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf. Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park and is the fifth-largest city in England. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees. Sheffield played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution, developing many signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (band)
ABC are an English pop band which originated in Sheffield in 1980, evolving from the earlier ensemble Vice Versa. They are best known as pioneers of the new wave and sophisti-pop movements, blending synth-pop with orchestral and jazz influences. The band achieved mainstream success with their debut album, ''The Lexicon of Love'' (1982), which featured the hit singles "The Look of Love" and "Poison Arrow" and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. Fronted by Martin Fry, the band's only constant member, the band's classic formation featured Fry as the lead vocalist, Mark White on guitar and keyboards, Stephen Singleton on saxophone, and David Palmer on drums. ABC achieved ten UK and five US top 40 hit singles from 1981 to 1990. Their 1982 debut studio album, '' The Lexicon of Love'', was a UK number one. Their early-1980s success in the US saw them associated with the Second British Invasion. ABC continued to release music throughout the 1980s, with notable albums such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Human League
The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic music, electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album ''Dare (album), Dare'' in 1981 after restructuring their lineup. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man (The Human League song), Mirror Man", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "The Lebanon (song), The Lebanon", "Human (The Human League song), Human" (a second US No. 1) and "Tell Me When". The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17, leaving Oakey and Philip Adrian WAdrian Wrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
