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The First Flame
Photo by Alex Noriega

The gender-bending artist Grayson Perry seems an appropriate choice to create the front cloth for the English National Ballet’s programme She Said, three new pieces choreographed by Aszure Barton, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Yabin Wang, running 13 through 16 April at London’s Sadler’s Wells. The ballet’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo, cited the artist’s “wonderful insight into different forms of identity” in her statement on the commission. The artist, who began the work before the dance trilogy was completed, said in a statement that “a lot was left to my imagination”. His mental wanderings led him to a depiction of a central female character “in a landscape of phalluses. It is quite jolly and there is no rational explanation.”


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Still from Duvet Brothers's "scratch video", Virgin (1985). Courtesy the artists and LUX

Video, film and sound are the focus of Art Sheffield 2016, and science and technology are behind the show’s title, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm. These are the six types of quark, which are among the elementary particles that make up every atom. The artistic director of the event, Martin Clark, says: “It’s like a group show that’s exploded across the city. The works all circle around this idea of the material reality of the city, and how communities and cities create and are created by its inhabitants.”One section of the biennial at the Sheffield Institute of Arts is a showreel of rarely seen 1980s “scratch videos”—works made from footage appropriated from mainstream media—by artists including George Barber, Nick Cope and Gorilla Tapes.
The main funders of Art Sheffield are Arts Council England and Sheffield City Council.


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Desert Drama
Photographer: Peter Holme III

Vladimir Nikulin photo

Impact
Photographer/Artist: Erik Johansson

A Horse in The Golden Sunrise
Photo by Marinus Keyzer

Date Night
Photographer: Simon Trnka

Miracle on the Mountain
Photo by Nathaniel

Discovering new views by Oscar Nilsson