Exploring the Archive Workshop

27 Jan 2023

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Exploring the Archive Workshop

Exploring the Archive Workshop

The Heavy Water Col­lec­tive were invit­ed to run a day long work­shop with first year Fine Art Stu­dents at Sheffield Hal­lam Uni­ver­si­ty. In this ses­sion, the col­lec­tive intro­duced their work, before intro­duc­ing stu­dents to a selec­tion of pub­li­ca­tions housed in the The John Wid­dow­son Folk­lore Col­lec­tion, sit­u­at­ed at Sheffield Hal­lam Spe­cial Collections.

Stu­dents were invit­ed to engage with the col­lec­tion, select­ing images and research­ing con­tent to work with in the after­noon ses­sion. Fol­low­ing a series of activ­i­ties, in which stu­dents were asked to respond to the col­lec­tions using dif­fer­ent meth­ods and mate­ri­als, a body of work was pro­duced, exhib­it­ed and then dis­cussed as part of a group critique.