The Time is Now at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

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The Time is Now

Millennium Gallery, City Centre
7 October 2019-19 January 2020

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The Time is Now at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Katie Paterson, Totality, 2016. Photo © Alison Bettles 2017. Installation view Towner Art Gallery Eastbourne. Courtesy of the Arts Council Collection
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The Time is Now at Millennium Gallery in Sheffield is an a new immersive exhibition that looks at how contemporary artists have approached our complicated relationship with time. The show invites visitors to lose themselves in artworks that question how time affects everything we do – including Katie Paterson’s mesmerising giant mirror ball reflecting 10,000 images of solar eclipses, and Andrew Hunt’s huge paintings exploring the fleeting moment between youth and old age.

Featured artists include: Helen Chadwick, Braco Dimitrijević, Ruth Ewan, Ruth Levene, James Nares, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mathew Weir and more.

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