Spital Hill : A Common Thread :: photography nearing completion

We're entering the final stages of photography for the Spital Hill: A Common Thread project, and beginning to finalise the actual designs that will go up on the hoardings along Saville Street and elsewhere on Spital Hill. Here are the most recent set of portraits, taken yesterday. I'll post the next stage of the designs later in the week.

Spital Hill :: Traders

I've spent a good amount of the last couple of weeks photographing people who work or run businesses on Spital Hill - here are some of the pictures from the shoots, which Fabric Lenny is going to be working on over the next few weeks to produce the artwork for the hoardings on Saville Street.

Thanks to everyone who's been so helpful and willing to give their time so far - especial thanks to Janet and Mary at the library who have put up with a temporary studio being built in their community room, and lots of unpredictable comings and goings from me!

The businesses here include DWS, the Mangla, the East House, Ellesmere Post Office, MMXX and Emin Supermarket - thanks to all of them!

Richard

The First Ten Panels

Here are the first ten panels of approximately 24. It's starting to come together!

Burngreave library all day...

Today was a great day of more portraits at Burngreave library. Here's a quick look...

A common thread in the Star

Monday this week saw 'A Common Thread' feature in the Sheffield Star:

Here's the link to the article.

First draft designs

The panels for A Common Thread will run for over 100m along Saville Street in Sheffield, from the Wicker Arches to the new Tesco building.  They need to be vibrant and engaging, even if you're driving past on a bus or in the car, and we're working with a theme of 'A Common Thread' running through all the photographs and designs.

The first drafts of the panel designs are here - this will obviously develop throughout the process, but the themes will continue.

There's a bit more photography to be done in the next week, then on to the design phase.

richard hanson

'A Common Thread' Artists

There are three artists working together on the Common Thread project.

We are:

Richard Hanson
Photographer

website: hansonphoto.co.uk
blog: hansonphoto.me

Fabric Lenny (aka Paul Slater)
Artist, Image-Maker, Collaborator

website: fabriclenny.com
blog: fabriclenny.blogspot.co.uk




Yvonne Roberts
Artist, photographer, filmmaker

website: yvonneroberts.co.uk
blog: yvonnerobertssketchbook.blogspot.co.uk




We are all part of the 154 Collective of Artists, which is currently (until September 2012) exhibiting in the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley.

The three of us have been working together for over ten years, on films, animation, schools projects, photography exhibitions and books, and much much more.

If you've got any questions or would like to take part in the Common Thread project, do get in touch with Richard on richard@hansonphoto.co.uk

The other artist involved in the art commissions on Spital Hill is Michael Johnson, the sculptor.

website: michaeljohnsonsculptor.co.uk

Spital Hill Traders

And here are some of the portraits of Spital Hill traders in their shops and restaurants.

richard hanson
photographer
burngreave
sheffield

A Common Thread portraits

One of the things we're working on with this project is a series of portraits of residents, traders and users of Spital Hill and the area around it. Richard has been busy photographing people at various events and locations, including Rainbow's End charity shop, and a consultation event on Ellesmere Green a couple of weeks ago.

Here are some sample images, straight portraits first, then on the next post, some of the shots of traders too.

Some of these portraits were shot down by Vestry Hall as part of the council's consultation on the redevelopment of Ellesmere Green, which is part of this larger piece of work. Here's how my studio looked under the gazebo there:

richard hanson
photographer
burngreave
sheffield