{"id":728,"date":"2017-11-01T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T11:43:40","slug":"the-sense-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/the-sense-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sense of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">My work GHost Dance,\u00a0 2014, has been selected for the exhibition The Sense of Things at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durdenandray.com\/exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Durdan and Ray<\/a>, Los Angeles.<br \/>\nThe Sense of Things is curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidleapman.com\/David_Leapman\/David_Leapman.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Leapman<\/a> of Durdan and Ray and David Hancock of the <a href=\"http:\/\/paper-gallery.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Gallery<\/a><br \/>\nMy work and the exhibition were featured in a preview from Carolina A Miranda in the Los Angeles Times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/miranda\/la-et-cam-datebook-walton-ford-ellen-gallagher-20171101-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/miranda\/la-et-cam-datebook-walton-ford-ellen-gallagher-20171101-htmlstory.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-729 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GHost-Dance-sarah-Sparkes-2014-Mixed-media-on-wallpaper-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"GHost Dance sarah Sparkes 2014 Mixed media on wallpaper\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GHost-Dance-sarah-Sparkes-2014-Mixed-media-on-wallpaper-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GHost-Dance-sarah-Sparkes-2014-Mixed-media-on-wallpaper-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GHost-Dance-sarah-Sparkes-2014-Mixed-media-on-wallpaper-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GHost-Dance-sarah-Sparkes-2014-Mixed-media-on-wallpaper-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>GHost Dance, 2014<br \/>\nmedium: mixed media on wallpaper<br \/>\ndimensions: 20 cm diameter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sense of Things, Durdan and Ray, <span class=\"_Xbe\">1923 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021, USA<\/span><br \/>\nNovember 4 &#8211; 25 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday by appointment<br \/>\nCurators: David Leapman and David Hancock<br \/>\nArtists:\u00a0Tom 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<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Statement: Sparkes work <i>GHost Dance<\/i> is part of a body of work investigating &#8216;a formula for ghost-making&#8217;. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Bio: Artist Sarah Sparkes exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Her new work,<i>The GHost Formula<\/i>, 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 <i>No Such Thing As Gravity<\/i>. She was the 2015 winner of the MERU ART*SCIENCE award for her film <i>Time You Need<\/i>, 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. 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