Welcome to the Look at Me! Project
The Look at Me! Images of Women & Ageing Project aims to transform the way society views older women.
This is a unique project which will challenge the current perceptions of older women in our society. The Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2003 recognised a need to challenge stereotyped images of ageing, particularly in relation to older women. The use of visual methods as a means of allowing older women to tell us their experiences of ageing is one way of doing this but, to date, `ordinary´ older women have not had the opportunity to either comment on, or create, their own images of ageing. This project aims to do precisely that.
We have invited older women in Sheffield to join our creative workshops exploring images of ageing. The women were given the opportunity to create their own images of the ageing process, which we are proposing to exhibit at public venues in and around Sheffield in March 2011 to mark the centenary of International Women’s Day.
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Media Coverage
The project has received coverage in: The Yorkshire Post, The Times Higher Educational Supplement, Arts Professional and has featured on BBC Radio Sheffield, and Communities Live, Sheffield. View our press release announcing the launch of the project in October 2009: http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2009/1435.html
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New Dynamics
The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is a seven year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life of older people. The programme is a unique collaboration between five UK Research Councils - ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and AHRC - and is the largest and most ambitious research programme on ageing ever mounted in the UK.
The Circle
The Circle, a conference venue run by Voluntary Action Sheffield , hosting our art therapy and photo-therapy workshops. For more information about the different workshops we have run, see workshops.
Latest News
- 02/08/2010
Curator wanted
We are currently looking for a curator for our exhibition in March 2011. The post-holder will be responsible for deciding on the selection, hanging and displaying of the images (photographs/fine art/sculptures) which have been created by the different strands of this research project. If you have experience of curation and are interested in the position, please contact us (details provided on the contact page) for more details. ...» read more - 23/07/2010
Green Estate Community Exhibition
A selection of the portrait photographs taken of Green Estate volunteers as part of the Look at Me! project is being shown at the Dovercourt Surgery on Sky Edge Avenue, S2 from the 23rd July to the 6th August. The cultural development agency, Eventus, enlisted acclaimed photographer Laura Pannack, winner of a portrait prize at the World Press Awards 2010, to work alongside the women to explore how they feel about getting older in a series of photographic sessions at their homes and in local location such as Heeley City Farm and the grounds of Manor Lodge. The photographic portraits in the Dovercourt Surgery exhibition have been personally selected by the participants as their favourites from the project as a whole. ...» read more
