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Sarah Sparkes
Country of residence United KingdomSparkes wallpaper installations reference the history and popular culture of wall papers in England. The ‘pub wallpapers’ dedicated to a particular leitmotif- the artist’s drinking haunts in her home town of Reading, are a homage to the fabulously grotesque wallpapers that grace the walls of these establishments. The labour-intensive process of hand-painting each repeat motif, is both an obsessive and cathartic act, an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of memories that are held within each building.
She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art & Design, Kingston University and Middlesex University.
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Border line, Patriot Hall Gallery, Edinburgh. 2006: For Peel, Nomoregrey, London; 42, (curator and exhibitor) Three Colts Gallery; Summer Show, Contemporary Art Projects, London; David Beckham, A&D Gallery, London; Local, Wine Gallery, London. 2005: 30 x 30 Vertigo Gallery, London; Mrs. Lavers 5 year Diary, The Hat On Wall, London; Real Strange, Lounge Gallery, London; Night on Earth, The Oxford House, London. 2004: Misplaced, Vertigo Gallery, London; Mothers, The Oxford House, London / Northern Edinburgh Arts Centre, Edinburgh.
Links Vertigo
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