Department of French School of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Department of French

School of Modern Languages and Linguistics

University of Sheffield

Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Nicolas Moulin

February – June, 2009

Nicolas Moulin, Leverhulme artist in residence, February-May 2009• In February 2009, Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson

was awarded £12,500 from The Leverhulme Trust to invite internationally renowned artist, Nicolas Moulin, to work as artist in residence in the Department of French

• The residency culminated in an exhibition at Site Gallery, sponsored by the French Embassy in London

Creative task day with students…• Nicolas Moulin worked with students

from English, French, Architecture and Town and Regional Planning to explore the question of regeneration…

Leverhulme Artist in Residence:Creative task day with students

Leverhulme Artist in Residence:Creative task day with students

Nicolas Moulin, Leverhulme Artist in Residence:

Exhibition at Site Gallery, June – Aug 2009

Press coverage of Nicolas Moulin’s exhibition at Site Gallery• ‘It’s rare that an artist’s brief association with a city will

tell you anything of note about the city itself, but Nicolas Moulin’s three-month residency at the University of Sheffield appears to be an exception. Moulin’s images of paranoid cities and impossible industrial structures demonstrate a hard surrealism entirely appropriate to Sheffield, a city that – though it seems rather ashamed of the fact – has the finest Modernist architecture of any English city outside of London.’

(Owen Hatherley, Frieze, July 2009)

Press coverage of Nicolas Moulin’s exhibition at Site Gallery• ‘you should go and see the Nicolas Moulin show

at the Site Gallery in Sheffield if you get a chance - the photos and the film are brilliant: menacing catastrophes of post-apocalyptic architecture-gone-wrong, with the ambivalence of twentieth-century politics in the background…’

(Cinestatic / Infinite Thought, July 2009)

Leverhulme artist in residence:Public Symposium, June 13th 2009• The six workshops organised during the course of the

residency culminated in a symposium about regeneration at Site Gallery. Invited speakers included:

• Terry O’Connor (Forced Entertainment)• Christophe Egret (RIBA, CABE, Studio Egret West)• Dr Steven Gartside (MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University)• Dr Anna Jorgensen (University of Sheffield)• Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson (University of Sheffield)• Cllr Tim Rippon (Sheffield City Council)

Channel Exhibition, 2006

Channel, 2006

• In October 2005, Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson was awarded £8500 from the Knowledge Transfer Opportunities Fund to work in collaboration with Cupola Contemporary Art (Sheffield) and its owner/director, Karen Sherwood

• The aim was to explore the ways in which the infrastructures and institutions of contemporary art in France compare with those in the UK

Channel, 2006

• The Knowledge Transfer project culminated in a three-venue exhibition, held at Sylvester Space, Cupola and Flowers in the Window

Channel, 2006

• The exhibition featured emerging and internationally renowned artists:• Valerie Jouve

• Djamel Tatah

• Greyworld

• Natacha Lesueur

• Maud Haya Baviera

• Lucy Orta

Sponsors of the Channel exhibition included:• Arts Council England

• DLA Piper

• French Embassy in London

• Alumni Foundation (University of Sheffield)

• Inspiral (Sheffield)

Future projects

Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture

• Scheduled for June 2010• Partners include:

• Site Gallery• Showroom Cinema• University of Sheffield• Algerian Ministry of Culture• AARC (Agence algériennepour le rayonnement culturel)

Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture, 2010

• Exhibition of contemporary Algerian art, to be curated by Kader Attia

Festival of Contemporary Algerian Culture, 2010

• Film season at Showroom Cinema

• Concerts and community events

• International conference, featuring keynote speaker Benjamin Stora

• For further information about any of these projects, please contact:

• Dr Amanda Crawley JacksonDepartment of French, SOMLALJessop WestUniversity of SheffieldS3 7RA

a.j.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk