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“Saturday was the first gallery visit of the year, and my first visit to Sheffield. The venue was Bank Street Arts, and the exhibition was Si Barber’s “The Big Society”.

The venue was a small one, a far cry from some of the larger exhibition spaces that I’ve been to, but then, it’s one of those spaces where you don’t need to be one of the really big guns to exhibit in. It’s one of those invaluable spaces for us mere mortals to be able to display our work. They need to be applauded for that. It also meant that they were more amenable to a bunch of people coming in on a Saturday when they’re normally closed - having the space to ourselves meant that we didn’t have to worry about upsetting other visitors by gathering around an image and talking about it for 10 minutes. Yes, a big thanks to the gallery, and to resident photographer/curator Andrew Conroy who was on hand to throw in his opinion and some inside info from time to time. ”