SEeAFAR at Deptford X

 

SEeAFAR opens at Deptford X TONIGHT!

The exhibition is looking stunning in the fabulous, spacious NUM3ER Space,  Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA

PRIVATE VIEW TONIGHT: Friday 26th September 6-8.30pm 

OPEN FROM 12-6pm on: 27th, 28th September and 1-5th October

This exhibition brings together new work from Foa + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes and Thurle Wright. Using a range of media - drawing, animation, performance to video, light installation, painting and collage - the works engage with living with the constant presence of an absence through the metaphor of waiting for someone to return from sea.

[Invite image 'Jane Conquest Rings the Bell' (detail) Sarah Sparkes, (great grandfather Sparkes' magic lantern slides and mixed media, 2014]

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SEeAFAR at Folkestone Triennial

SEaFAR at folkestone Triennial 2014

Foa + Hosea, Crali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes, Thurle Wright

At The Old Truckers Lounge, Folkestone Harbour 

over the opening weekend of Folkestone Triennial 2014

29th - 31st August

Taking place in a former waiting room for the Folkestone ferry, SEeAFAR features six artists – Foa + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes,Thurle Wright – whose work manifests absence. Through drawing, painting, installation, performance and moving image, these artworks recall the perspective of generations of women living in a state of unknowing as they wait for news or the return of loved ones from overseas and explore the tensions between anticipation and memory, separation and speculation.

Sarah Sparkes' great grandfather was a Magic Lanternist. Using his decaying lantern slides and combining these with a magicians' optical effects, the artist has created a series of works illuminating the ambiguous relationship between the woman watching on the shore and the spectre of the shipwreck at sea. In ' Jane Conquest rings the Bell' a standard maritime narrative is re-imagined in which a visionary woman looks out from behind the helm of destiny.