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 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.
