GLOAM Gallery

GLOAM Gallery GLOAM is a contemporary art gallery, and artists' studios in Sheffield, UK.

Thank you to all who came to the opening of James Thompson’s On Lost Ground last night at GLOAM 👀We are open today 12–4O...
05/09/2026

Thank you to all who came to the opening of James Thompson’s On Lost Ground last night at GLOAM 👀

We are open today 12–4
Or by appointment

We have three studio spaces available at 160 Arundel Street from October 👀2 x small 1 x medium For an application form, ...
27/08/2026

We have three studio spaces available at 160 Arundel Street from October 👀

2 x small
1 x medium

For an application form, and to arrange a viewing, please email [email protected]

Please register your interest ASAP 👀

artistledspace

〰️ UPCOMING EVENT 〰️Join artist James Thompson for a free, hands‑on, clay workshop celebrating the final day of On Lost ...
20/08/2026

〰️ UPCOMING EVENT 〰️

Join artist James Thompson for a free, hands‑on, clay workshop celebrating the final day of On Lost Ground at GLOAM

For this workshop, James will support participants produce a series of new artifacts in clay. It will be an opportunity to share knowledge of GLOAM and nearby sites. We’ll take sections of clay and make clay press moulds from architectural fragments around the area. The idea is to come together and share memories – maybe of GLOAM, maybe of other art spaces, maybe industrial histories. It’s about sharing while making, building a multi perspective sense of place

🎟️🎟️🎟️

Event details:
Date: Saturday 26 Sepember, 2026
Start/End Time: 10:30am—12:00 (noon)
Location: 160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Maximum group size: 15 people
Tickets: This workshop is free for all attendees, with materials provided. Booking on Eventbrite (see GLOAM’s Linktree).

The project is funded by the Henry Moore Foundation and the University of Leeds, and has been developed with the generous support of S1 Artspace, Sheffield City Council, and Wessex Archaeology.

Henry Moore Foundation Grants
S1 Artspace
Wessex Archaeology
University of Leeds

Curated by victoria emily sharples

〰️ COMING UP NEXT 〰️You are invited to the opening of On Lost Ground with artist James Thompson at GLOAM James Thompson ...
19/08/2026

〰️ COMING UP NEXT 〰️

You are invited to the opening of On Lost Ground with artist James Thompson at GLOAM

James Thompson

PV 6–9pm 04/09/26
👀 All welcome 👀
Open Saturdays 12–4pm, 4–27 September
Or by appointment
 
Developed through casting, excavation, and architectural listening, the works draw connections between artist-led spaces, changing land use, and traces of urban transformation. On Lost Ground explores how buildings accumulate histories and how ground retains traces of the past while carrying shifting values and potential.

The exhibition is accompanied by a participatory workshop on 26/09/26, 10:30–12:30. More information shared tomorrow 👀

The project is funded by the Henry Moore Foundation and the University of Leeds, and has been developed with the generous support of S1 Artspace, Sheffield City Council, and Wessex Archaeology.

Henry Moore Foundation Grants
S1 Artspace
Wessex Archaeology
University of Leeds

Curated by Victoria Sharples
Photograph: victoria emily sharples

GLOAM presents: On Lost Ground, James ThompsonJames Thompson PV 6–9pm 04/09/26 Open Saturdays 12–4pm, 4–27 September Or ...
03/08/2026

GLOAM presents:

On Lost Ground, James Thompson
James Thompson

PV 6–9pm 04/09/26
Open Saturdays 12–4pm, 4–27 September
Or by appointment
 
On Lost Ground, Thompson’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, brings together a new body of site-specific sculpture and a live architectural sound intervention that responds to GLOAM’s layered history as an industrial site, DIY music venue, and artist-led space, as well as the ongoing transformation of Castlegate in Sheffield’s City Centre.

Developed through casting, excavation, and architectural listening, the works draw connections between artist-led spaces, changing land use, and traces of urban transformation. The installation includes casts of S1 Artspace’s new premises in a former bank, a rammed-earth work made from material excavated during the Castlegate archaeological dig, and a live sound installation that amplifies vibrations travelling through GLOAM’s structure.  

On Lost Ground explores how buildings accumulate histories and how ground retains traces of the past while carrying shifting values and potential.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a participatory workshop (more coming soon 👀)

The project is funded by the Henry Moore Foundation and the University of Leeds, and has been developed with the generous support of S1 Artspace, Sheffield City Council, and Wessex Archaeology.

Henry Moore Foundation Grants
S1 Artspace
Wessex Archaeology
University of Leeds

Curated by Victoria Sharples
victoria emily sharples

GLOAM presents: On Lost Ground, James ThompsonJames Thompson PV 6–9pm 04/09/26 Open Saturdays 12–4pm, 4–27 September Or ...
03/08/2026

GLOAM presents:

On Lost Ground, James Thompson
James Thompson

PV 6–9pm 04/09/26
Open Saturdays 12–4pm, 4–27 September
Or by appointment
 
On Lost Ground, Thompson’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, brings together a new body of site-specific sculpture and a live architectural sound intervention that responds to GLOAM’s layered history as an industrial site, DIY music venue, and artist-led space, as well as the ongoing transformation of Castlegate in Sheffield’s City Centre.

Developed through casting, excavation, and architectural listening, the works draw connections between artist-led spaces, changing land use, and traces of urban transformation. The installation includes casts of S1 Artspace’s new premises in a former bank, a rammed-earth work made from material excavated during the Castlegate archaeological dig, and a live sound installation that amplifies vibrations travelling through GLOAM’s structure.  

On Lost Ground explores how buildings accumulate histories and how ground retains traces of the past while carrying shifting values and potential.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a participatory workshop (more coming soon 👀)

The project is funded by the Henry Moore Foundation and the University of Leeds, and has been developed with the generous support of S1 Artspace, Sheffield City Council, and Wessex Archaeology.

Henry Moore Foundation Grants
S1 Artspace
Wessex Archaeology
University of Leeds

Curated by Victoria Sharples
victoria emily sharples

exhibition

Thank you to everyone that came to ‘Apotropaics’ by The Birley the exhibition is now closed ✨Photograph: Roberta CialfiC...
02/07/2026

Thank you to everyone that came to ‘Apotropaics’ by The Birley the exhibition is now closed ✨

Photograph: Roberta Cialfi

Cialfi’s paintings are derived from observation. She enjoys the process of finding a balance between loose figuration and abstraction, often spilling into each other in different degrees across both paintings and sculptures. She is interested in the space in between: between abstraction and figuration, where they coexist, but also in what is neither fully figurative nor fully abstract; between inside and outside; between the seen and the unseen, the remembered and the imagined.

Later in this programme GLOAM will be travelling over to The Birley for the second half of the exchange, announcements coming soon.

We would like to thank The Birley and all the artists for partnering with us for this year’s exchange, we are excited to come see you in Preston.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant
Tracy Hill

Practical Sound
Anthony David Padgett


Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross
Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

Thank you to everyone that came to ‘Apotropaics’ by The Birley the exhibition is now closed. Image 1-3: Roberta Cialfi C...
29/06/2026

Thank you to everyone that came to ‘Apotropaics’ by The Birley the exhibition is now closed.

Image 1-3: Roberta Cialfi
Cialfi’s paintings are derived from observation. She enjoys the process of finding a balance between loose figuration and abstraction, often spilling into each other in different degrees across both paintings and sculptures. She is interested in the space in between: between abstraction and figuration, where they coexist, but also in what is neither fully figurative nor fully abstract; between inside and outside; between the seen and the unseen, the remembered and the imagined.

Later in this programme GLOAM will be travelling over to The Birley for the second half of the exchange, announcements coming soon. We would like to thank The Birley and all the artists for partnering with us for this year’s exchange, we are excited to come see you in Preston.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

〰️THIS SATURDAY IS THE LAST CHANCE TO SEE〰️GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaicswith The BirleyOpen Saturday 12-4pm Image...
18/06/2026

〰️THIS SATURDAY IS THE LAST CHANCE TO SEE〰️

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley

Open Saturday 12-4pm

Images 1-4: Tracy Hill
Tracy Hill combines drawing, print and installation to explore the possibilities of linking art and science to reveal our fragile relationship with global living systems, visualising the (in)visible. The intersection between our sensory, aesthetic and digital worlds is where Hill situates her art works: a hybrid space where a geological understanding of the land informs an embodied experience of the energy contained within it.

Image 5-8: Practical Sound
Rob Mullender-Ross works with sound, sculpture, performance and video and is interested in how rituals articulated through or constitutive of sound, sociality, moving image, and objects, and can be considered (to paraphrase the anthropologist Alfred Gell) as agents of enchantment.

Rob is also the director of The Birley Artists Studios and gallery and co-curated this exhibition.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

⚠️ LAST CHANCE TO SEE ⚠️GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaicswith The Birley Open Saturday 12-4pmImages 1-3: Jayne Simpso...
16/06/2026

⚠️ LAST CHANCE TO SEE ⚠️

GLOAM Exchange presents: Apotropaics
with The Birley
Open Saturday 12-4pm

Images 1-3: Jayne Simpson
Jayne Simpson’s paintings, often bodily, entwine figurativeness with gestural, abstract layering of brushwork. The colours, and levels of opacity and transparency are metaphors in the passing of time, the brushwork reflects experiences we seek to hide or forget and those we need to unarchive and return to.

Image 4-7: Heather Ross
Heather Ross has a multi-disciplinary practice, as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo ‘Artist A & Artist B’ (with Dr. Jackie Haynes). Her work is often in dialogue with historical and archival material, which is edited and re-worked using re-construction and repetition, and/or translated into new materials and forms. She creates scenarios through which details of her subjects can be scrutinised, often seeking to generate a more embodied experience with a distanced subject.

Exhibiting artists:
Roberta Cialfi
Sarah Grant Tracy Hill Practical Sound Anthony David Padgett
Beata Podstawa
Heather Ross Jayne Simpson

Co-curated by Practical Sound & Stu Burke

For our annual exchange programme, we are very happy to be working with The Birley, an artist-led studios & project space in Preston city centre, Lancashire, UK. GLOAM is delighted to share the work of 11 studio holders from The Birley in the first half of this year’s exchange.

GLOAM’s exchange programme is a chance to grow a network of artist-led spaces regionally and nationally to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic community. Past exchanges have included free house (Birmingham), Two Queens Two Queens, Leicester (Leicester) and General Practice general-practice.net (Lincoln).

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