{"id":72062,"date":"2026-05-21T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=72062"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:07:00","slug":"watch-the-art-exhibit-silent-language-was-hosted-in-sheffield-last-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/watch-the-art-exhibit-silent-language-was-hosted-in-sheffield-last-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The art exhibit \u2018Silent Language\u2019 was hosted in Sheffield last Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheffield and Wuhan artists collaborated in an art exhibition called \u2018Silent Language\u2019, a cross-cultural research project exploring womanhood through jewellery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition displayed the work of 19 Sheffield based artists and artwork created in\u00a0 workshops, where participants used objects collected from daily life to express their lived experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Silent Language\u2019 was co-initiated by four artists working between China and the UK, Maria Hanson, Xinru Dai, Yusi Wang, and Yuxiao Zhu, who wanted to bring together multiple voices and perspectives on what it means to be a woman today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program was funded by the \u2018Connections Through Culture\u2019 grant, awarded by the British Council in recognition of the cultural collaboration between China and the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Silent Language\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hQAmPxzNtU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield hosts Silent Language exhibition, with nineteen collaborating artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":72072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21,82],"tags":[2240,241,2241],"class_list":["post-72062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-top-story","tag-art-exhibition","tag-culture","tag-womanhood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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