Deptford X - South London Salon

Deptford X - Harry Pye's South London Salon

The Way Home, Watercolour on paper,  2013

Over the past year I've been quietly and obsessively making paintings of the same subject.  The series is called 'The Way Home'  and  I'll be showing some of these new paintings at the Deptford X as part of Harry Pye's South London  Salon: http://www.deptfordx.org/programmes/1/events/128

The works will be exhibited at the brand new D.X H.Q on Brookmill Rd (1 minute's walkk from Deptford D.L.R)

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Deptford X is London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival and has been experienced by over one million people since inception in 1998.

“A seal on the area’s creative credentials” – Evening Standard “Bigger and more international each year” – Time Out “A vibrant festival of contemporary art” – Guardian Guide, Pick of the Week

12noon to 6pm 28th September - 6th October 

The private view for Harry Pye's south London Salon is on Thursday the 3rd of October from 6pm till 9pm.

For this year's festival Harry Pye & his friends are having their own salon. The work exhibited will be from artists with a strong connection to South London. In many cases the actual work will be about South London too. The artists in The South London Salon are:

Marie Smith, Cedar Lewisohn, Christopher Owen,Sarah Doyle, Peter Lamb,Howard Dyke, Rowland Smith, Julia Bedford,David Dipre, Liam Newnham, Patrick Morrissey & Hanz Hancock,Edward Ward, Rosalind Davis, Bob London, Klarita Pandolfi-Carr, Sarah Sparkes, Clare Price, Paul Hamilton, Jackie Clark, Giles Kent, Julie Bennett, Paul Wye, Tracey Williams, Zac T Lee, Mikey Georgeson, Marcus Cope,Sinead Wheeler, Mel Cole, Julian Wakeling, and Aleksandra Wojcik. 

I Love you Because at A Side B Side Gallery

I'll be showing 'Love Me Tender' at the group show curated by Harry Pye 'I  love You Because'

Love Me Tender, Sarah Sparkes 2013, Print and collage 

A-side B-side Gallery presents: 

I Love You Because
Curated by Chloe Mortimer & Harry Pye

Private View: Thursday 18th July 6-9pm

SHOW DATES: 

The exhibition will run from 18th July – 15th August
Opening times: Thurs – Sun 12 – 6pm & by appointment

All the works in the show are about Elvis.
There is also a free special edition Rebel Magazine on Elvis, in which this image is reproduced and in which I have contributed a few lines of writing.
My work 'Love Me Tender' is ink jet print and collage.  The collage materials are taken from my old bedroom wall paper and the wallpaper that was on the kitchen in my childhood home.  Both wallpapers were on the walls of the house when Elvis died.  I frequently use wallpaper in my work and quite often use this blue flowery bedroom wall paper especially.

Here's what I wrote about Elvis in the Rebel magazine: 

'I grew up with Elvis in the house; his music playing on the record player, his films on the TV, biographies on the shelves and a collection of domestic objects decorated with his image. I love Elvis because my mum loves Elvis and my sister loves Elvis - you could say that it's a hereditary condition.'

http://therebelmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/elvis-i-love-you-because-at-a-side-b.html

When A-side B-side Gallery discovered that this Summer marked the 60th anniversary of

Elvis Presley going into Sun Studios and making his first ever recording they said:

“Let’s have a party!”

30 artistic Elvis fans have contributed a painting, photo or drawing of The King and 30 others

have written a personal tribute. The show was curated by Chloe Mortimer and Harry Pye.

Chloe says: “Elvis Presley was strikingly handsome and his singing touched the hearts of millions.

For some, the Elvis story may have ended in 1977 but for me it goes on. He was always there for

me and I find that even now he’s always on my mind.”

Catherine & Tinsel: “A-side B-side Gallery is proud to be the host of a show dedicated to the

‘King of Rock and Roll’. For 6 decades Elvis has inspired many artists including Peter Blake (who

has made 6 shrines to Elvis) and Andy Warhol (whose double Elvis work recently sold for 37

million dollars). The contributors to “I Love You Because” are from all over the world, we hope we

can squeeze everyone in and look forward to seeing you there!”

The first 500 visitors to the gallery will receive a free copy of “The Rebel magazine’s Elvis Special”

sponsored by Immprint. www.therebelmagazine.blogspot.co.uk

In alphabetical order the 30 artists in the show are:

Harry Adams, Simeon Banner, Julie Bennett, Emma Coleman, Anka Dabrowska, Tinsel Edwards, Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Elena Garcia de la Fuente, Mikey Georgeson, Paul Hamilton,

Peter Harris, Cathy Lomax, Bob London, Lee Maelzer, Catherine Magnani, Stephanie Moran,

Karen Morden, Chloe Mortimer, Liam Newnham, Gavin Nolan, Horace Panter, Andrew Petrie,

Rachael Robb, Alli Sharma, Sarah Sparkes, Team Beswick & Pye, Twinkle Troughton,

Sandra Turnbull, Jessica Voorsanger, Julian Wakeling, Chris Webster, Nicole Willis, Carlo Zenone   

100 Mothers at the Other Art Fair

 100 Mothers is at the Other Art Fair
25th - 28th April
Ambika P3
Marylebone Road

Including my mixed media collage and painting of my mother, Patricia Mary Sparkes.  Her hair is made from my old bedroom wall paper and behind her is a painting of a magnolia tree in bloom. it was first shown in 2003 which was when I also met the amazing Harry Pye who invited me to be in this and some other equally exciting exhibitions.

The Other Art Fair are extremely pleased to be hosting Harry Pye’s renowned exhibition “100 Mothers”.

Supplying 100 artists with an identical blank canvas, Harry Pye asked each one to create a representation of their own mother. Born of a simple concept, the resultant mélange of works reflects the essence of the meaning for the word Mothers. The exhibition includes work from Billy Childish, Bob and Roberta Smith, Chantal Joffe, Dinos Chapman plus 97 others…

The whole exhibition is for sale, so if you have a spare £100,000 then what better way to spend it with 100% of proceeds going to your chosen charity.