Sheffield, from Derbyshire Lane, c.1797, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Collection of the Guild of St George, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust
Unknown artist: View of Sheffield from Sharrow Moor, 1838
Thomas Creswick: Hillsborough, Sheffield, 19th century, oil on panel, 24.2 x 19.2 cm, Museums Sheffield
Henry Rushbury: Snig Hill from Angel Street, 1941
Derrick Greaves: Sheffield, 1953, oil on canvas, 93.6 x 210.5 cm
John Hoyland: Backyards, Sheffield, 1958, oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches (91.5 x 71 cm)
Jack Kettel: Rebuilding a Blast Furnace, 1964-5, Museums Sheffield, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 68.8
Colin Coates: Janson Street, c. 1950
Jonathan Wilkinson: Castle Market
Mandy Payne: Paradise Lost, aerosol on concrete, 21.5 x 31 cm
(Posted 5 February 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)
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“Az y mt hv gést, hir at Âr Fevrit Plêsz w’r priti cīn on Šefīld n ḅliv it t hv a ynīc n inʈrwlñ caṛctr. Bt asc smwn t picčr Šefīld n ẇt wd ɖe si? An industrı̣l wêstḷnd? Ɖ YC’z grīnist siti? Ñgḷnd’z bgst vilij? Ɖ gêtwe t ɖ Pīc District? Myziymz Šefīld’z lêtist xibišn at ɖ Mileňm Gaḷri têcs a tur ʈru Šefīld’z past n preznt t iluminet ɖ mni fasits v ɖ plês ʈru landscep āt n ŕbn ftogṛfi.
Ɖ xibišn stāts wɖ a Šefīld qt dfṛnt t ɖ ŕbn sprwl w nâ nô. Nîntīnʈ senčri pêntñz šo a fy dwelñz n črčspîrz set amñst grīn fīldz az vyd fṛm Šaro Mur (uņôn ātist, c.1838), Hilzbra (Toms Crezic, c.19ʈ senčri) n Wōdzend (Wiłm Jon Stīvnsn, 1875), ɖo Šefīld’z dstnctv šêp, nesld in ɖ valiz v ɖ Rivr Don, rmenz recgnîẓbl. Prīdêtñ ɖz z a pêntñ fṛm wn v ɖ bg nemz v ɖ xibišn, JMW Trnr’z Vy v Šefīld fṛm Dābišrlên (1797), ẇč šoz ɖ modist sitīscêp mirrñ ɖ šêp v ɖ inveḷpñ hilz abv it.
Ɖz bycolic sìnz wr v cws sn t b čôct wɖ ɖ smog v ɖ industrı̣l reṿlušn in ẇč Šefīld md its fwtyn, n ɖr r mni xamplz v bʈ industrı̣l šīc n industrı̣l blīc in ɖ xibišn. Deric Grīvz’z Šefīld šoz ɖ pīcs v ɖ srândñ hilz âtstript bî čimnīstacs ẇl a grt dfunct factri glârz ovr ɖ sìn lîc a ruind cʈīdṛl. In ɖ secnd wrldwor Šefīld’z industrı̣l prâis bcem its peṛl ẇn bomñrêdz rzultd in sìnz lîc Henri Rušbi’z Snig Hil fṛm Enjlstrīt (1941) in ẇč blits-deṿstetd strīts apir lîc roz v brôcn tīʈ. Bî contrast Jac Cetl’z Rībildñ a Blastfrnis (1964-65) wɖ its vibṛnt culrpaḷt n hraldc feznt sīmz t revl in ɖ fîr v ɖ frnis, seḷbretñ Šefīld’z crietv spāc.
Ɖr’z a bitrswīt tug v nstalja ʈrt ɖ xibišn az Victorı̣n ečñz v bytifl myṇsipl bildñz ber witṇs t sitīgôsts loñ sns dmolišt. Or fr mr rīsnt losz, ɖr’z tribyts fṛm Pīt Mci n uɖrz t Ɖ Houl in ɖ Rôd, ẇl Joṇʈn Wilcinsn’z mtikḷs lîndrōñ v Ɖ Egbox rmîndz s v a tîm ẇn tânplanñ wz bold rɖr ɖn bnal – wl Ɖ Čīzgrêtr evr b imwṭlîzd in ɖs we? Mandi Pein’z pêntñ Paṛdîs Lost berz witṇs t anɖr monymnt t ācitecčṛl xybṛns: Pāc Hil – wns a drīm v modn livñ inspîrd bî La Cwbūzie, it lêtr bcem rivn wɖ sošl probḷmz n z nâ sīcñ t riinvnt itslf az a bastı̣n v ŕbn cūl.
Amñst ɖ 90 imijz in ɖ xibišn y r šr t fînd a glimps v yr Šefīld or īvn lrn smʈñ ny abt ɖ siti y cwl hom. I, fr xampl, nvr ň ɖr wz wns a Nwf̣c Pāc Picčrpaḷs nt fîv minits wōc fṛm mî hâs. Hâ I wš ɖr wz stl a siṇma so lôcl I cd pop rnd in mî pjaṃz…