Camberwell Arts Festival Commission

SALVATION. SALVATION. SALVATION.

A commission for Camberwell Arts Festival

I have been awarded a commission, by Camberwell Arts, to make a new work as part the celebrations for 20 years of Camberwell Arts Festival.  Twenty commissions have been awarded to artists to make work at venues in Camberwell.  I have been working with the Salvation Army Heritage Centre and have created an installation for their museum and inspired by their collection and archive.

Here's more information:

The Heritage Centre is taking part in the 2014 Camberwell Arts Festival. We will be hosting Sarah Sparkes’ installation ‘SALVATION. SALVATION. SALVATION.’ from Monday 16th June.

Sarah Sparkes has been reseraching the collections and archives at the Salvation army Hereitage centre and has created an instalation in response to these. The work will be on display along side the other exhibits in the Heritage Centre throughout Camberwell Arts Festival from 14th - 22nd June on Mondays – Thursdays from 9.30am – 4.00pm.

William Booth College, Champion Park, London, SE5 8BQ.

DON't MISS OUR SPECIAL EVENT ON 21st JUNE:

On Saturday 21 June the William Booth College and the museum will be open from 2.00pm -5.00pm, the artist will be on hand to discuss her work, and tea & cake will be served.

Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator. She runs the visual arts and research project ‘GHost’ and has published on and regularly lectures about this subject. She has exhibited widely, both in the UK and internationally, and been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies. She spent three years as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at the ‘Harry Price Library of Magical Literature’ and this has informed much of her recent work. She currently has an exhibiton in ASC Window Space and is developing work for the ‘Over Time’ project at Enderby Wharf in Greenwich. Recent exhibitions include Theatrical Dynamics’ at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; ‘Haunted Landscapes’ at Falmouth University, Cornwall and ‘Lumen’ at St. Clements Old Psychiatric Hospital, Mile End, London.

ASC Window Space

I'm delighted to have been asked to show work in ASC Window Space.

The work can be seen from the street for the next month:

The Host Ghost Presents: Sarah Sparkes

June 6th - July 3rd

ASC Window Space

ASC Studios

Erlang House

128 Blackfriars Rd

SE1 8EQ

For ASC Window Space, Sarah Sparkes has created a mixed media tableaux constructed from a selection of her recent work. Individually and collectively the works suggest the potential for an extraordinary function or a symbolic narrative origin.

Sarah Sparkes is primarily concerned with concepts of immateriality and how this might be visualised. Her work often interrogates the presence of magic in the domestic and everyday, both as supernatural force and as legerdemain and is an investigation into the belief systems and material symbols we adopt to mediate with the unknowable.

The Host Ghost Presents: Sarah Sparkes' includes:

'NEVER AFRAID – Giant Killer', 2010, mixed media with LED lights.

'The Host Ghost', 2014, mixed media marionette.

'Remember. THE END' 2012, satin, felt, silk and oak.

'Time Machine', 2013, oak, clock movement, infinity box.

Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator. She runs the visual arts and research project 'GHost' and has published on and regularly lectures about this subject. She has exhibited widely, both in the UK and internationally, and been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies. She spent three years as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at the 'Harry Price Library of Magical Literature' and this has informed much of her recent work. She is currently working on a commission for Camberwell Arts and is developing work for the 'Over Time' project at Enderby Wharf in Greenwich. Recent exhibitions include Theatrical Dynamics' at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; 'Haunted Landscapes' at Falmouth University, Cornwall and 'Lumen' at St. Clements Old Psychiatric Hospital, Mile End, London.

www.sarahsparkes.com

www.ghosthostings.co.uk