Blurring the Edges is a multi-disciplinary exploration of “social frontiers”—the often-unseen boundaries between communities living side by side. Through visual art, augmented reality, performance, food, and conversation, the project invites audiences to reflect on what divides us, and what might bring us closer.

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Created in collaboration with Rotherham-based artist Uzma Rani and the Life at the Frontier research team at the University of Sheffield, the project blends artistic response with academic inquiry. Original paintings, an immersive soundscape, AR filters, and a performative dialogue between the artists come together in a space that feels as much like a gathering as a gallery.

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First shown at Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind and later adapted for events in Rotherham and Sheffield city centre, Blurring the Edges is designed to evolve. It can be presented as a live performance, a static exhibition, or a community-facing workshop model - and is especially suited to post-industrial and traditionally underrepresented cultural spaces.

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At its heart, the project asks: how do we live together across difference? And what stories emerge when we blur the lines we’ve inherited?​

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