South Yorkshire Space Station at SEESAW

Since 2023, artists Joab Harrison and Euan Morrison have held their collaborative practice to a single rule. Channelling some kind of art-school Jack Bauer, the pair make each audiovisual piece inside 24 hours. South Yorkshire Space Station, their first exhibition together, gathers more than 30 of the results.

Harrison is a Manchester-based designer and filmmaker who, by day, builds the visual identities for the likes of The Warehouse Project, Parklife, and most recently Auris Festival. Morrison is a sound artist and producer working with modular synths, field recordings and live instruments, and he’s been making experimental dance music since his teens. Their work together is about evolving ideas quickly, with a constant back and forth that, according to the pair, “aims to test how far a collaborative process can be pushed”. The key is the forever-looming deadline, which leaves little room for hesitation.

24-hour arty people they may be, but alas this isn’t exactly a Manchester tale. Both artists trace their creative instincts back to Sheffield. Morrison grew up there, shaped by the city’s sounds and culture, while Harrison credits an early exposure to its digital art scene with setting him on this path. From Cabaret Voltaire to Warp Records, Sheffield has been a test site for electronic music for half a century, and the audiovisual work here picks up something of that spirit.

Alongside the video installation sits a simple, retro-style interactive piece: a physical button (created in collaboration with Sheffield-born designer Charlie Jones of woodworking studio Dryburgh Works) that lets visitors shuffle through a run of ultra-short films, mirroring the compulsive energy of their creation. A series of prints, meanwhile, captures moments from the videos, shown with images and artwork from the duo’s earlier collaborations.

SEESAW is a good spot for it. The venue is a converted textile warehouse on Princess Street that runs as a café and gallery, with studios and hot-desking space for designers, writers and digital makers. A show so focused on the creative act sits comfortably in a building full of people making things. Fittingly, the exhibition is backed by MADE IT, the North West graduate art prize run by Short Supply with Cass Art, which Harrison won in 2025.