{"id":338037,"date":"2025-08-12T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338037\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:01:10","slug":"sheffield-cathedral-welcomes-artist-in-residence-helen-blejerman-sheffield-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338037\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Cathedral Welcomes Artist in Residence Helen Blejerman \u2014 Sheffield Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Sheffield Cathedral<\/strong> is delighted to welcome artist and researcher <strong>Helen Blejerman<\/strong> as Artist in Residence this August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Helen\u2019s work confronts urgent global issues, exploring femicide in Mexico and how religion shapes mourning, alongside the tireless search of families for missing loved ones. Her practice combines forensic evidence, personal narratives, and film to address gender-based violence and social injustice. She is currently a PhD researcher at <strong>Sheffield Hallam University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Over two weeks in August, Helen will create <strong>two site-specific installations<\/strong> in the Cathedral that respond to her ongoing research.<\/p>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Ceremonial Ritual<\/strong> uses everyday materials such as plastic bags and duct tape to reflect on disappearance and dehumanisation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Cartonland<\/strong> uses cardboard to construct a fragile landscape that speaks to instability, migration, and displacement.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Visitors are warmly invited to say hello and watch Helen at work between <strong>1\u20133pm on weekdays<\/strong> in the <strong>Old St George\u2019s Chapel<\/strong>, where she will be developing her pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Both works will be unveiled in the <strong>Chapel of the Holy Spirit<\/strong> on <strong>25\u201326 August<\/strong>, where visitors can also meet Helen from <strong>1\u20133pm<\/strong> each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Cathedral is delighted to welcome artist and researcher Helen Blejerman as Artist in Residence this August. Helen\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014984333421594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}