Create Sheffield

✨ Create Sheffield Network Spotlight ✨

Every day, artists and creative professionals across Sheffield work to nourish creativity in children and young people's lives. Follow our series to meet them!

This time: Angie Hardwick 🏺- Ange Made Ceramics

Angie is a Sheffield-based ceramicist and visual artist who works with schools, community groups and cultural venues to create large-scale sculpture and ceramics.

Angie works with young people because she believes creativity builds confidence and pride: "I love enabling young people to creatively express themselves… [to] be proud of their achievements and have a sense of belonging", she says.

Her projects connect heritage, place and identity, and her generosity and artistic skill help young people connect with themselves.

In a recent project, Angie helped children aged 5-14 across Sheffield to make their own ceramic fishes — one to take home, and one that formed part of an installation in the Winter Gardens. In the installation, all the fish travel in the same direction apart from one. The message: it's OK to swim against the tide 🥳🐟

Then last year, Angie worked with Springfield Primary on a heritage-in-schools project coordinated by Create Sheffield in collaboration with Historic England & local heritage partners. Building on tailored heritage lessons, Angie supported pupils to make beautiful ceramic pieces of local buildings that meant something to them. Can you recognise which ones they are from the pics? 🤔

Thanks, Angie, for all that you do! 🙏

🔍 Explore Angie's other amazing projects or get in touch via her website at www.angiehardwick.co.uk, or at Ange Made Ceramics. Schools and community groups — if you'd like to work with Angie on a project, get in touch!

💡 Discover more remarkable creatives in our website directory - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/partners, read more about the Heritage in Schools project https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/news/know-your-place, or sign up to our newsletter for much more like this - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/getupdates.

🤝 If you're working with children & young people in Sheff, join us! Become part of the Create Sheffield network (it's free 🌱) - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/becomeapartner

👋 Connecting Creatives this Thursday!

Don’t miss our informal networking meet for creatives working with children and young people — this time with a Creative Careers focus.

Alongside the usual catch ups, connections and sector updates, we’ll be opening up a shared conversation about how we support and inspire young people from all backgrounds into creative careers in Sheffield — what’s already happening, what we’d like to do more of, and how we can work together.

We’re excited to be joined by Laura Poole and colleagues from Sheffield The Sheffield College (who are also generously hosting us!, sharing insight from their brilliant work in this area.

Friendly, informal, all welcome (no worries if you're not a current Create Sheffield partner) — whether you come to share, listen, make new connections, or you just in it for the free tea & biscuits (no judgement☕🍪).

👉 1-2.30pm, Thursday 7th May, Room P5503, Sheffield College, Pennine 5.

🔗Full details on our website - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/createsheffieldevents/connecting-creatives-create-sheffield-monthly-networking

If you’d like to join and you’re not already on the list, send us a brief email to [email protected] & let us know you're coming🙏

✨ Introducing our new Create Sheffield Network Spotlight ✨

Every day, artists and creative professionals across Sheffield work to nourish creativity in children and young people's lives. Follow our series to meet them!

First up: Sam Groom 🎨

Sam is a Sheffield-based printmaker and educator working with paper, fabric, wood and ceramics to make bold, colourful relief prints, textile products and sculptural artworks.

Her work with young people is rooted in the belief that art is joyful and builds important transferable skills. She loves working with young people, supporting them to build confidence in their own creativity and to believe they can be artists.

Her latest project is a lovely example of this in action. Following her work painting two lions for the Pride of Yorkshire Sculpture Trail, she's collaborating with young creatives at RivelinCo to design and paint their own lion cub. The finished sculpture, named Starling, will be displayed in the window of HQ during the trail. 🦁

Sam works with large and small groups, from early years to 16+ - get in touch with her to develop a project to suit your chosen theme or topic.

🔍 Follow Sam's work on Facebook or get in touch via her website or Create Sheffield profile: https://samanthagroom.co.uk/ or https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/arts-culture-partners-2/samanthagroom

💡 Discover more remarkable creatives in our website directory - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/partners - or sign up to our newsletter for much more like this - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/getupdates

🤝 If you're working with children & young people in Sheffield, join us! Become part of the Create Sheffield network (it's free 💸) - https://www.createsheffield.co.uk/becomeapartner



Image credits: Sam Groom