Allhallowtide

Two works from my series
Ghost-dance David Soul  will be part of
 

Allhallowtide
A group exhibition for the triduum of Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day
Curated by Kate Street & Rhys Trussler

Private View: Thurs 31st October 5 – 8pm
Open: Fri 1st, Sat 2nd and Sun 3rd Nov 11am – 4pm




‘I shall go into a hare,
With sorrow and sych and meickle care;
And I shall go in the Devil’s name,
Ay while I come home again.’
Isobel Gowdie– 15^thcentury self-proclaimed witch
To celebrate the triduum that encompasses Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Allhallowtide brings together a group of fourteen artists who dabble with, and make reference to, the occult and explore rituals within their work. Over this season where the dead, including martyrs and saints are remembered, Art Space Portsmouth is hosting a fiendish gathering of practitioners, who use a variety of processes and approaches to investigate this subject.

Cecilia Bonilla
Sasha Bowles
Annabel Elgar
Fiona Finnegan
Patrick Galway
Carrie Grainger
Russell Herron
Thomas Hylander
Dean Melbourne
Sarah Sparkes
Kate Street
Danny Treacy
Rhys Trussler
Paul Vivian
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Images: Top, Ghost-dance David Soul III, 2018, collage and digital collage printed on the artists childhood wallpaper, – framed in float mounted beech frames with museum glass, 28 x 28 cm. Bottom,
Ghost-dance David Soul II, 2018, collage and digital collage printed on the artists childhood wallpaper, – framed in float mounted beech frames with museum glass, 28 x 28 cm

GHost Dance at Durdan and Ray, Los Angeles

My work GHost Dance,  2014, has been selected for the exhibition The Sense of Things at Durdan and Ray, Los Angeles.

 GHost Dance, 2014
medium: mixed media on wallpaper
dimensions: 20 cm diameter
The Sense of Things is curated by David Leapman of Durdan and Ray and David Hancock of the Paper Gallery
My work and the exhibition were featured in a preview from Carolina A Miranda in the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-datebook-walton-ford-ellen-gallagher-20171101-htmlstory.html



The Sense of Things, Durdan and Ray, 1923 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021, USA
November 4 - 25 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday by appointment
Curators: David Leapman and David Hancock
Artists: Tom Dunn, Jack Duplock, Roni Feldman, Jon Flack, David Hancock, Thomas Whittaker Kidd, Ilona Kiss, Paraic Leahy, Sharon Leahy-Clark, David Leapman, Richard Meaghan, John Mills, Sarah Sparkes

Statement: Sparkes work GHost Dance is part of a body of work investigating 'a formula for ghost-making'. Sparkes has mixed iconic spiritualist imagery from U.S.A. and Europe, creating a digital collage which has been printed onto a surface of 1970s wallpaper from the artists childhood home.

Bio: Artist Sarah Sparkes exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Her new work,The GHost Formula, 2016 commissioned by for FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) recently toured to NTMoFA (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts) as part of the exhibition No Such Thing As Gravity. She was the 2015 winner of the MERU ART*SCIENCE award for her film Time You Need, which she recently presented at KOSMICA in Mexico City. She runs the creative research project GHost and she has been collecting Liverpool ghost stories, as part of an Arts Council funded project. She exhibits her paintings with New Art Projects, London. Sarah Sparkes is an Associate Lecturer at UAL and she teaches art and curating courses at numerous institutions.