Sheffield Archives
and Local Studies Library have worked closely over the past few years with
Clive Egginton, a photographer and film maker from Sheffield. Most recently
we've been working on the Arts Council England project 'The City as Bricolage'
- a photographic study of Sheffield for addition to the city archives. However, Clive was diagnosed with brain cancer in
January 2014 and has since lost his sight.
We are working alongside Clive and his family, the Royal National Institute of Blind
People (RNIB), the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind (SRSB), Leeds
Metropolitan University, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of
Sheffield’s‘Festival of the Mind’ to stage the UK’s first photographic
exhibition of 2D and 3D printed images based on the work of Clive Egginton.
The exhibition,
inspired by Clive’s determination to continue to create art despite this
diagnosis, will break new ground in representing the art of photography by
portraying images both in standard print form and in one or more corresponding
tactile facsimiles. Using a number of different state of the art tactile
printing techniques developed from around the world the exhibition will display
diptychs and triptychs of individual images in 2D and 3D. Clive's images will be
accompanied by work by Andy Brown, Gemma Thorpe, Rosy Nesbitt and Nathan Gibson.
The Tactile Image
18th – 28th September 2014
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sun: 10.30am
to 5pm
Wed and Sat: 10.30am to 7.30pm
Castle
House, Angel Street, Sheffield, S3 8LS
(Pictured: the centrepiece of the
exhibition - a portrait of Sheffield boxer, Dave Howe by Clive Egginton
converted into a tactile image by Juan Torre)
Blog: http://atactilephotoforclive.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter: @Imageforclive
