Sarah Doyle

Sluice Art Fair

2011-10-10T08:50:00.002+01:00

I will be showing hand painted cells from my animation Dancehall Danceoff at Sluice Art Fair with Transition gallery on the 15 and 16th Oct

Dancehall Danceoff from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.

SLUICE ART FAIR
15-16 October 2011
26 South Molton Lane, Mayfair, London
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TRANSITION GALLERY

Transition is pleased to announce that they will be participating in the first Sluice Art Fair. Transition Gallery is an independent and innovative, artist-run, London-based gallery and publisher founded by artist Cathy Lomax in 2002. The gallery shows work by both emerging and established contemporary artists as well as producing publications and periodicals such as Arty and Garageland.

STRIP

For Sluice Transition is showing Strip, an exhibition made up of groups of specially selected 2D works by a number of artists including Emma Talbot, Annabel Dover, Cathy Lomax presented with a distinct nod towards the filmstrip.

All of the artists featured in Strip employ a sequential approach to their varying subject matter. But although each ‘strip’ is composed of works made in a series, adjoining frames do not necessarily correspond to each other. There are in fact no traditional narrative structures; instead it is for the viewer to create their own connectivity.

In her essay for the Transition publication About Painting Alli Sharma identifies the ‘importance of a process to picture making, rather than simply an end result’. Forsaking the idea of the grand gesture, the Strip artists are dissatisfied with the stand alone masterwork, the single dumb painting made to hang on some ever decreasing rich patron's wall. Furthermore with the huge abundance of easily available digital imagery there is just so much more to paint and draw and not enough time to spend labouring on one image. The Strip artists are restless and resourceful, with their minds jump cutting from one thing to another. It is the actuality of the process which is the receptacle that holds and binds these multi-faceted back-stories together.

In Mark Cousin’s The Story of Film: An Odessy film is described as ‘an image bank to flick back and forth to in our imaginations’ and it is this metaphor of a ‘clicking machine’ that mirrors the work on show in Strip.

Sluice Art Fair: 26 Sth Molton Lane, Mayfair, London

Nunhead Open 8 Art Exhibition

2011-09-07T11:05:00.002+01:00

I will be showing The Nexus Treatment at this years Nunhead Open 8 Art Exhibition

9 - 11 September, Friday - Sunday, 12 - 5 pm

The Old Nursery Building
5 Nunhead Green
SE15 3QQ
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Tel: 07906206166
visit The Surgery Gallery website for more projects/performances over the weekend
Buses p12 & 78 (get off at Nunhead Green)
Rail Nunhead, Peckham Rye & Queens Rd, Peckham (approx. 10 mins walk)

Opening Party
Friday 9 September 6-8pm- All Welcome
DJ Daniel invites you to bring VINYL records - 33's 45's & 78's -Prizes for most unusual /Best Dance / Worst Dance.
Performances by:
Miyuki Kasahara "Fox's window" written by Naoko Awa, 7pm
Nurse Vox and Doctor Murmur -Here is my heart

Artists Projects, Videos, Films, Animation, Performances taking place alongside The Nunhead Open 8 Exhibition at The Old Nursery Building, 9-11 September 2011 ( Please see below).

Mr. L.M. Ramsey, Calum F. Kerr, Marina Rees, Peter Todd, Beris Blake, Ellie Reid, Peter Asagba, Sarah Sparkes, Hatty Lee, Rachael Haines, Amy Poole, Sarah Doyle, Jenna Collins & Rebecca Feiner

Charlotte Squire -The Nunhead illuminations which will be visible from the street 24 hours during The Nunhead Open Art exhibition.

Charlie Fox & Daniel Lehan. September's edition of A3 - F(OR) A(N) ALTERNATIVE ART MAP OF SOUTH LONDON. For an Alternative Art Map of South London has been created for the launch of Nunhead Open 2011. It is part of a larger project, facilitated by Charlie Fox, celebrating hidden, unknown, repressed or underrepresented art activities within London.-for more information: http://alternativeartmap.blogspot.com/.
A3 is produced monthly by Daniel Lehan.

From Slapstick to Horror is a film and video screening curated by Louise Colbourne and Jim Hobbs. The screening includes artist's film and videos by Jenny Baines, Gordan Beswick and Harry Pye, Zoe Brown, Katherine Eastman, Raquel Felgueiras, Bob Flanagan, Philip Hausmeier, Bas Jan Ader, Michael James Jones, Paul R Jones, Liane Lang, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Dennis Oppenheim, Andy Parker, Eddie Peake and Inaki Estrada Torio, Laure Prouvost, Kate Street, Phil Taylor, Richard Whitby.
Frog Morris- NO DVD
Open submission Super8 and VHS Screening
( please note this event takes place on Saturday 17th September at The Old Nun's head pub, 4pm )

GHost CLHub

2011-08-24T20:52:00.005+01:00

Artwork by Sarah Doyle

I have a painting in GHost CLHub curated by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal at the Folkestone Trienalle hosted The B&B Project Space.
My painting is based on a story from a book called Ghosts Of Shepway written by Paul Harris
The story is about the ghost of a young boy at the Royal Norfolk Hospital:

‘A waitress rushing to and fro from the kitchen to the bar noticed a young boy in brown ragged clothing “like an urchin of Dickens’ time” sitting on the stairs. Twice she passed the boy by who seemed unnaturally still and quiet. When he was still there when coming back from delivering an order she asked if he was alright.

“He started to cry, and looked at me with tears rolling down his cheeks, his eyes were bright blue, and then he just vanished, right there in front of my eyes,” The waitress explained.

The B&B Project Space, 14 Tontine Street, Folkestone, CT20 1JU
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27th - 29th August - bank holiday weekend
Saturday 4 - 7pm, Sunday and Monday, 2 - 6pm

GHost presents new works made in response to Shepway ghost stories
and film installations exploring the sea as a haunting presence.
Artists:
Linda Barck, Sarah Doyle, Rebecca Feiner, Malcolm Hobbs & Colin Priest & Joe Reeves,
Miyuki Kasahara, Domingo Martínez Rosario, Richard O'Sullivan, Sarah Sparkes, Jacqueline Utley, Ricarda Vidal and Cathy Ward

Chutney 5 – The School of Chutney

2011-06-15T09:53:00.003+01:00

Artwork by Sarah Doyle

The Chutney Preserves Present:
Chutney 5 – The School of Chutney

U don’t need know edcation

19th June, 1pm -7 pm
On the playing fields of Camberwell Green
As part of the Camberwell arts Festival

Camberwell Green, Camberwell Road, London SE5
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Join us for fresh air and un-learning on Camberwell Green, where doors that are open to the wise are also open to the foolish. Performances, interactions and interventions dissecting the institutions of learning in a class room without walls.

School, university, college - the happiest days of your life, or a recurring nightmare? ‘They’ made you go to school, you survived and now, post-compulsory education, you’re free to learn something that interests you, just as long as you can afford it.

The Chutney Preserves will remove any degree of knowledge, facilitating your unlearning and return you to a classless state of pre-educated happiness.

Register

Linda Barck
Jo David
Sarah Doyle
Rebecca Feiner
Charlie Fox
Rachael House
Miyuki Kasahara
Lonesome Cowboys from Hell - (Tim Flitcroft, Calum F. Kerr, and various miscreants)
Daniel Lehan
Joanna McCormick
Frog Morris and Mark Dean Quinn
PEPOMO
Ian Robinson & Vanessa Scully
Liam Scully
Jacqueline Utley
Sinead Wheeler

Join Linda Barck in a celebration of "the naughty corner". Look and listen with Jo David as London’s lost underground language disappears before your eyes and ears. Expel unwanted knowledge in a brain fart with Sarah Doyle. Take your windy brain for a ‘mashup’ at Rebecca Feiner’s ‘Fictitious University of the Imagination’. Share incidents from your past and celebrate your freedom in tell-tale rhymes of (un)reason and preserved memory at Charlie Fox and the Urban Bear Research Centre’s School of (D) Holmes. Rachael House invites you to make art herstory and draw a feminist for Typical Girls, a feminist gallery. Never graduated, well now you can as Miyuku Kasahara invites all to be Chutney Graduates, complete with graduation certificate and photograph. Sign up for the school of plain livin' and hard studyin' where you can experience a program of unpardonable actions until sundown with the Lonesome Cowboys from Hell (Tim Flitcroft, Calum F. Kerr, and various miscreants).
Daniel Lehan will be teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Realise the potential of your vocal powers with Joanna McCormick- are you an angel or a warthog. Prizes and accolades for every one in Frog Morris’ and Mark Dean Quinn’s’ ‘Unwrong Quizz’, the exam with no right or wrong answers. In secret hide outs and camouflaged in the vegetation of Camberwell Green, Ian Robinson and Vanessa Scully's ‘guerrilla gardening school is looking for new recruits to train in the art of seed bombing. Shaman Liam Scully will take you on a personal journey of discovery from inside his smoke house tepee. PEPOMO invite ALL to the School re-union, creating an environment which facilitates the experience of a shared memory with a bunch of people you never knew. Jacqueline Utley with her ' Daily Report ' will collate drawings and thoughts on the theme of ‘rules for The Paper Museum at the School of Chutney’. Sinead Wheeler has done her homework on a banned book.

Chutney Preserves is supported by Space Station Sixty-five and Camberwell Arts
http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com/
http://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/
http://www.chutneypreserves.blogspot.com/

And one last thing to think about before home time:
Do you agree with the following statement - The classroom is a mirror, reflecting a society where the majority submits to the perceived superiority of the individual, institution and ultimately the Government.
Discuss...

Art Which Is Also A Disco

2011-04-20T19:02:00.005+01:00

My animation 'Dancehall Danceoff' will be projected at
'Art Which Is Also A Disco'

Saturday, April 30 · 8:00pm - 11:30pm

The Courtyard Theatre Hoxton
40 Pitfield Street
London, N1 6EU
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The GRAND FINALE of "Luxury Goods V - The Illusion of Art"
....the free five night fifty word international art festival....
Nightly Tues 26th- Sat 30th April 2011 7-12pm

Held at the most excellent Courtyard Theatre, purveyor of fine theatrical treats, the most glamorous of wines and the best guest ales....

...a smoke and mirrors treat before your very eyes....

decima presents

ART WHICH IS ALSO A DISCO

with ARTWORLD DJ TROUPE THE ITCHY NIPPLEZ

and SPECIAL INTERVENTIONS by THE DEAD PETS SOCIETY

Featuring special guest DJs
INGRID ZTARRED! (Residence Gallery)
DJ NANIGHT (Al's Explosive Roadshow)
LIAM SCULLY! (Itchy Nipplez)
DJ 1-9-9-1 (aka Calum F Kerr)

AND ON THE PEDESTAL OF ART DISCO HISTORY FOR THE NIGHT:
QUILLA CONSTANCE! (Vocals)
VICKI GOLD! (Performance)
MissForBid! (Performance) (aka Noz from AnarchistWood)
MICALEF! (Vocals)
ALEX FEAR! (Performance)
LUCI LU! (Vocals)
ASHLEY BAILEY! (Performance)

AND ON THE WALL OF ARTISTIC LICENCE
Joy Collie! All the way from Jersey!
James Hopkins!
Danielle Hodson! All the way from Soho!
Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly!
The Kuntists!
Richard Starbuck!
Anonymous Disco Ball! All the way from Kansas City!
Rose Mouton! All the way from medieval France!
Joey Holder!

AND Robson Cezar, King of the bottletops!

Projections include
ORIANA FOX!
SARAH DOYLE!
INGRID Z!
and ALEX CHAPPEL!

Luxury Goods V - The Illusion of Art
The free five night fifty word international art festival.
Nightly Tues 26th- Sat 30th April 2011 7-12pm
www.luxurygoodslondon.com

Art Blitz

2010-11-12T09:11:00.003Z

25-27 November 2010, 12-6pm
Live event: 27 November, 7-9pm

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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Henny Acloque, Susan Aldworth, Dominic Allan, Phillip Allen, Michael Ajerman, Majed Aslam, Emi Avora, David Blandy, Sarah Baker, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Kirsty Buchanan, Jorge Cabieses, Caravan Gallery, Rachel Cattle, Jake Clark, Jessica Coates, Andrew Curtis, Sam Dargan, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Tom Hunter, Leo Fitzmaurice, Kate Garner, Damian Griffiths, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Hebson, Sigrid Holmwood, Paul Housley, Jasper Joffe, Reece Jones, Paul Kindersley, Lady Lucy, Peter Lamb, Damian Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Mindy Lee, Iwan Lewis, Peter Liversidge, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Jeff McMillan, Zoe Mendelson, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Marianne Morild, Paul Murphy, Harry Pye, Marcus Oakley, Laura Oldfield Ford, Michael O’Mahony, James Payne, Alex Pearl, Edd Pearman, Mike Perry, Claire Pestaille, Rachel Potts, Princess Julia, Emma Puntis, Clunie Reid, Norbert Schoerner, Twinkle Troughton, Yinka Shonibare, Corinna Spencer, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Alli Sharma, Katherine Tulloh, Lara Viana, Stella Vine, Jessica Voorsanger, David Webb, Jo Wilmot, Rose Wylie, Isabel Young, Yolanda Zappaterra
Nicholas Serota’s recent comments that the government's funding cuts will cause an 'arts blitzkrieg' have inspired Transition Gallery to stage ART BLITZ, a fundraising event which references and updates the confrontational politics and unique style of the 1980s.

For eight years, the artist-run gallery, Transition, has been at the forefront of the East London art scene, staging exhibitions and producing exceptional publications (including Garageland and Arty). With the ill wind of spending cuts threatening to curtail the gallery’s progress, Transition have garnered the support of many leading artists and will be launching a not-to-be-missed art auction on this website on 15 November. Viewing will be in the form of an exhibition at Transition from 25-27 November, culminating in a live auction on the evening of Saturday 27 November. Bidding will be possible in advance online or by telephone or at the live event. There will also be an ARTY DIP where £10 will secure an original drawing or print many of which have featured in Arty.

The call to arms for ART BLITZ has been phenomenal with artists including Yinka Shonibare, Clunie Reid, David Blandy, Stella Vine, Phillip Allen, Sigrid Holmwood, Rose Wylie, Paul Housley, Eleanor Moreton, Tom Hunter, Laura Oldfield Ford, Emma Talbot, Jessica Voorsanger and Delaine Le Bas donating work to the auction and ARTY DIP.

Much of the work has been produced specially for ART BLITZ and this will be a rare chance to purchase art by influential contemporary artists whilst supporting the work of one of London’s most important artist-run spaces.

400 Women

2010-09-28T13:11:00.007+01:00

12-30 November 2010

Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT
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Private View: 11 November

An exhibition of new work by 200 artists including Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling, Swoon and Humphrey Ocean, responding to the widespread murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

This ambitious project was conceived by artist Tamsyn Challenger in response to the brutal murder and rape of more than 400 women over a decade in the US border town of Ciudad Juárez and the region of Chihuahua in Mexico. 200 artists have each painted one of the murdered women, confronting us with and safeguarding in our memory the dead and disappeared. The exhibition is curated by Ellen Mara De Wachter, a curator and writer based in London.
Challenger says:
“This project began in 2005 when I was commissioned to make a feature for BBC Radio 4’s Woman's Hour. I travelled to Mexico and met with some of the families and was struck by their need to hand me postcards that had been generated as another aid to finding their loved ones. These images were black, white and pink and poorly produced but they started the concept in my mind and on the long flight home I had a half formed idea for what has become the project 400 Women. The concept relies heavily on a large-scale collaboration and, for me, each participating artist represents one of the murdered women, in some way invoking her, so that she can challenge humanity. Each image produced will stand as a statement against gender violence.”
Explanations for the murders, which continue to this day, range from serial killers to organ fielding, the use of women as prizes for drug cartels and domestic violence. Most sinister of all is the possibility of so-called sexual violence tourism. The continued disappearance of women in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America evidences a culture’s disregard for the rights of women. Despite media coverage of the issue, the murder of 186 Women in 2009 and the disappearance of many more attest to the fact that little is changing. The killers continue to enjoy impunity in the region, which has had a knock-on effect throughout the country and the region. Amnesty International has reported that in Guatemala more than 2,200 women have been murdered since 2001.The Mexican authorities have seriously mishandled each investigation into these murders and in August 2006 the Mexican federal government dropped its investigations into the murders, concluding that no federal laws had been violated.
The majority of the murdered women were extremely poor. Challenger has obtained over 100 images through Amnesty International's Mexican team, the group Nuestra Hijas de regreso a casa, and the Casa Amiga Rape Crisis centre in Ciudad Juárez. For some women no image is extant. In these cases, the artist involved will use the woman’s name as they wish within the piece.
Notes:

· Each image will be on a uniformly sized canvas of 14” by 10” (portrait) echoing the “retablo” (which means ‘behind the altar’), the iconic imagery of the Catholic Church that remains such a strong force and power in Mexico.
· Challenger’s 2006 Woman’s Hour feature on the killings can be heard at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2006_26_fri.shtml
· Information about the project’s development and images of works as they are painted can be previewed at
http://400women.tumblr.com/
· Tamsyn Challenger trained at Winchester School of Art and KIAD. Her work has been exhibited in the Truman Brewery and Candid Arts in London. She has worked as a collaborative artist with the Magdalena Festival in Barcelona and with Triangle theatre. Tamsyn's first solo show 'The Tamsynettes' was at Transition Gallery in Bethnal Green in March 2010. She has also produced documentary work for the BBC, 'My Male Muse' receiving Radio 4's 'Pick of the Year' accolade.
· Ellen Mara De Wachter is a curator and writer based in London. Her main occupation is as the exhibitions curator at Zabludowicz Collection in Camden, where she has worked with artists on major commissions and exhibitions for the Zabludowicz Collection’s space at 176 Prince of Wales Road, including Matt Stokes, Graham Hudson, Mark Titchner and Toby Ziegler.
· Lise Bjorne Linnert is a multimedia artist based in Norway. Desconocida Unknown Ukjent uses embroidery to highlight the struggle to address the abuse, trafficking and murder of women. The project was initiated in 2006 in response to the situation in Ciudad Juárez and consists of workshops during which participants embroider the names of the murdered young women onto labels. So far over 2,200 people have participated in the project, embroidering more than 4,000 nametags. The project was awarded the Luleaa Summer Biennial Award in 2007.
· Shoreditch Town Hall Basement is a unique venue in the heart of artistic Shoreditch. Built in 1866 and now run by the Shoreditch Trust, the building has been used for exhibitions of work by internationally renowned artists and community projects alike. www.shoreditchtownhall.org.uk

For further information contact Ellen Mara De Wachter (07957 336 464) or Tamsyn Challenger (07714 126 166) or email 400women@googlemail.com

Confirmed artists:
Alastair Adams, Susan Aldworth, Carolina Ambida, Wendy Anderson, Jane Archer, Miranda Argyle, Bridgette Ashton, Joseph Avery, Dan Baldwin, Craig Barber, Mike Bartlett, Clare Barton-Harvey, John Beard, Rosemary Beaton, Julie Bennett, Paul Birdsall, Jason Bowyer, Lesley Burr, Ruth Calland, Ilinca Cantacuzino, Phil Cath, Rachel Cattle, Brian Catling, Gordon Cheung, Coral Churchill, Tom Coates, Emma Coleman, Tintin Cooper, Simon Davis, John Devane, Nelly Dimitranova, Alejandro Domingo, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Louise Durose, Joel Ely, Tracey Emin, Andrew Festing, Maryam Foroozanfor, Paul Fryer, Sue Golden, Oona Grimes, Gabor Gyory, Hazel Hammond, Maggi Hambling, Marcelle Hansellaar, Gwen Hardie, Alison Harper, Vicky Hawkins, Afsoon Hayley, Nadia Hebson, Wim Heldens, Rachel Howard, Georgina Hunt, Mary Jackson, Andrew James, Shani Rhys James, Jasper Joffe, Sanam Khatibi, Brendan Kelly, Anita Klein, Tanya Kohn, Shema Ladva, Elspeth Lamb, Sonia Lawson RA, Debbie Lee, Sadie Lee, Tom Levy, Laurie Lipton, Cathy Lomax, Andrea Marshal, Kate Marshall, Luciana Meazza, Johanna Melvin, Hugh Mendes, Fiona Michie, Alex Michon, Stephanie Moran, Colette Moray De Morand, Nicola Morrison, Charlotte Mortensson, Nan Mulder, Harriet Murray, Nancy Nimoy, Humphrey Ocean RA, Kim O'Neil, Paul Ord, Kate Palmer, Ian Parker, Celia Paul, Lei Lei Qu, Leslie Reid, Sue Ryder, Fred Schley, Tommy Seaward, Elie Shamir, Ali Sharma, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Jonathan Smith, Philippa Stjernsward, Matthew Stradling, Jeff Stultiens, Benjamin Sullivan, David Sullivan, Suzan Swale, Swoon, Emma Talbot, Neil Taylor, Paul Tecklenberg, Katherine Tulloh, Gee Vaucher, Be Van Der Heide, Gini Wade, Catharyne Ward, Jonathan Waller, Toby Wiggins, Simon Whittle, Anthony Whishaw RA, Nicholas Charles Williams, Susan Wilson, Eric Wright, Joanna Yates, John Yeadon, Katia Yezli

Mexican Artists
(Assisting in Mexico: Maru Vasquez), Andres Basurto, Patricia Cajiga, Jose Cano, Olga Chorro, Dina Eugenia, Maria Teresa Gaos, Arturo Hinojos, Abraham Jimenez, Jose Luis cuevas, Juan Toledo, Maru Vasquez, Ana Zoebisch

Spirit Of Hackney Wick

2010-07-21T19:40:00.005+01:00

I have an animation showing at The Spirit Of Hackney Wick - a night of specially selected award winning animations and film shorts

Award winning shorts & video installations by Helene Corr, Grace Connor, Kathleen Bryson, Sarah Doyle, Rebecca Feiner, Caroline Kennedy, Sarah Sparkes, Chirstinn Whyte and more.

FREE

DIY cinema peepshows

Award winning shorts, animations,

Sculpture

The hungry can eat at Counter Cafe

Stour Space
7 Roach Road
Fish Island
Hackney Wick
London, E3 2PA
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Friday 23rd July
8.30pm - 12.00am

SCREEN ONE

Shapeshifting by Chirstinn Whyte
Why So Blue? by Emily Crompton / Chris Jaume / Joe Knowles
Express Yourself by Daniel Morris / Sharlene McFarlane / Joe Wood
Matador by Helene Corr
Vox Aurora by Kathleen Bryson
S-S-Single Bed by Grace connor
Fruit And Nut Case by Rebecca Feiner
Sketchbook by Charles Palmer
You Are Here by Chirstinn Whyte
Skoda Goes To Cannes by Rebecca Feiner
The House Of Tomorrow by Emily Crompton / Chris Jaume / Joe Knowles
Sick Puppy by Caroline Kennedy
Love's Labours Lost by Tommy Harrison
Germy Wormy by Grace Connor
The Syllogism by Kathleen Bryson
Hysteria (Save The Last Dance For Me) by Helene Corr
PLUS Spirit Of The Wick by Rebecca Feiner

SCREEN TWO
Exhumation by Rebecca Feiner

SCREEN THREE

Classic (An Owner's Manual) by Sarah Sparkes

SCREEN FOUR

Dancehall Danceoff by Sarah Doyle

SCREEN FIVE

Images by Caroline Kennedy

WARDROBE CINEMA ONE

Text Field by Chirstinn Whyte
Skin Code by Rebecca Feiner
iscream by Grace Connor
Love’s Labours Lost by Daniel Morris
The Effects Of A Soapbox by Kim Medley
Feel by Rebecca Feiner

WARDROBE CINEMA TWO

Ghost by Sarah Doyle
Fly by Grace Connor
Lazy Day by Caroline Kennedy
Beatgirls by Sarah Doyle
Love’s Labours Lost by Tom Petch

SCULPTURE

Gallows by Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly

Sold Out

2010-06-24T12:39:00.003+01:00

Elastic Residence
22 Parfett Street
London, E1 1JR
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Dates:

2 July - 18 July 2010
Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm
and by appointment (020 72471375)

Opening Thursday, July 1st, 6 to 10 pm
Opening night performances including Martin Creed & his Band

Closing event, 18th July, 2pm-6pm
Gina Birch & Hayley Newman of the Gluts will be presenting a Gluts(y) Performance at
about 2.30pm.

Sealed bids will be opened at 4pm.

Sold Out brings together a group of internationally renowned and emerging artists to raise funds for Elastic Residence and The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Opening night performances include Martin Creed and His Band, whose music has been described as willful, wild and pushing the extremes of noise and silence. Among the internationally renowned artists showing, Beat Streuli provides an image from his Brussels series, characteristic of his street portraiture that captures the extraordinariness of the everyday, urban experience. From the well-known UK contributors, Daisy Delaney donates work that specifically responds to Sold Out, and subverts familiar images to deliver unexpected messages. The event closes with a performance by Gina Birch & Hayley Newman of the Gluts, concerned with the effects of over-consumption, capitalism and climate change.

Artists donating work to the exhibition include Beat Streuli, Lee Maelzer, Yvonne Buchheim, Marie Le Mounier, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Paul Sakoilsky, Daisy Delaney, Calum F Kerr, Cathy Lomax, Dolores Sanchez Calvo, Carla Cescon, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Andrew Hurle, Brook Andrew, Laura Oldfield Ford, Linda Persson, Rosa Almeida, Sayshun Jay, Marcus Bering, Isabelle Francis, Jan Savage, Sarah Sparkes, Sarah Doyle, Jessica Voorsanger, Rosemarie McGoldrick, Meinbert Gozewijn Van Soest, Richard Ducker, Paula Roush, Peter Bobby, Cyril Lepetit, Deej Fabyc, Simeon Nelson,Sean Edwards, David Blandy, John Hillson, Dave Hoare, Simona Bonomo, the Gluts, & Martin Creed & his Band

Work will be for sale by auction on the basis of sealed bids that can be placed at any point during the exhibition until the closing event on July 18th. On this last day, all bids will be opened and the ‘winners’ informed.

Monies raised will go towards the ongoing development of the Elastic Residence programme, an artist run space aimed at giving artists direct access to exhibition opportunities. 20% of funds raised will be donated to
The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, a non-political, non-profit organization working to address the medical and humanitarian needs of Palestinian children.

PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR CATALOGUE AND BIDDING FORM

AN Magazine's review of the show

website: exhibitions@elastic.org.uk

email: info@elastic.org.uk

© 2010 Elastic Residence Productions Ltd. All rights reserved.

Elastic Residence Productions Ltd is a not for profit company, registered at 22 Parfett Street, London, E1 1JR, Registration number 6357363.

Chutney Preserves 4

2010-06-23T12:08:00.021+01:00

CHUTNEY PRESERVES FOUR - THE ANIMAL FAIR

Camberwell Green, Camberwell Road, London SE5
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Sunday June 27th 1-7pm
This will be the closing event for Camberwell Arts Festival

I will be bringing Monarch Butterfly Programming to Camberwell Green for this years fantastic Chutney Preserves. Be there and have your mind melded to join the ranks of the other fabulous Monarch Slaves such as Beyonce, Rhianna and Lady Gaga.

From 1279 until 1855 a fayre was held on Camberwell Green, one of the many attractions was a menagerie of wild animals captured from distant lands. In homage to the beasts of the ancient Camberwell Fayre, artists will create a fair and foul enclosure of luxurious and curious beasts, transforming the Green into a safari park for human animals and their keepers, with beastly goings on, sideshows and a program of performance in ‘the big top’

Artists
Linda Barck, C.O.T.H. (Cult of the Harvester - Simon Neville and Sarah Sparkes), Helene Corr, Jo David, Daisy Delaney, Sarah Doyle, Rebecca Feiner, Charlie Fox and the Urban Bear Research Centre, Mikey Georgeson, Rachael House, Magnus Irvin, Derek Jordan, Miyuki Kasahara, Marq Kearey, Calum F Kerr, Lady Lucy and Drawing Exchange, Daniel Lehan, Joanna McCormick & Dido Hallett,Jessica Marlowe, Vanessa Mitter and James Gardiner, Slow Maurice, Frog Morris, Simon Ould, Devyani Parmar 'PEPOMO', Raul Pina, Paul Sakoilsky, Liam Scully, Vanessa Scully, Libby Shearon, cApStAn StRiNg, Geraldine Swayne, Jacqueline Utley, Ricarda Vidal and the animals of BoSs farm, Julian Wakeling, Sinead Wheeler, Ben Woodeson, a goat and many others

Timetable of Performance in and around the 'Big Top'
(note running order may change)
1.30 - 4.30pm
Vanessa Mitter with James Gardiner - Repetition through voice in word and noise - an animal noise de-constructing communication
Frog Morris - Reading poems he has written about animals
Mikey Georgeson - Mr solo will be manifesting his primordial marmalade whilst counting down to indivisible unity and wonder via pink ukuleles and dislocated antics.
Jessica Marlowe - Animal choir
Charlie Fox and the Urban Bear Research Centre
Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly will arrive on an epic journey from Marble Arch with his gallows and hang fugitive, criminal animals

5.00pm - 7.00pm
Pepomo with 'Animusical' the Pepomo group will dress in home-made animal costumes, sing songs, and dance, with live backing music, including adding a new 'exotic' character - especially for Chutney Preserves

6.00pm - assemble outside Captain Magnos Camper Van on the Green
the intrepid explorer Capt. Magno will present to the general public the last surviving specimen of a nearly mythical beast, recently brought back from his most recent Amazonian expedition. This mysterious animal that has no ears or eyes has yet remained in a state of comatose slumber. It is rumoured that it's only known defence mechanism on being awoken is an extreme form of spontaneous combustion.

On-going artists performance/ interventions in and around the Marquee and Green in cages, pens and on safari:

Rebecca Feiner and Helene Corr with Worm Charming Olympics, Lord Darwin and appreciation of creatures small
Daniel Lehan - champion snail racing arena
Paul Sakoilsky and Reg, King of dogs
Joanna McCormick and Dido Hallett - Chimeric animal drawings made to order
Miyuki Kasahara - The fox witch fox will appear with her tube. The tube fox will answer visitor's questions by vomiting coloured stones.
Devyani Parmar - Piggy Bank
Marq Kearey - missing pets - hand made lost dog notices that appear on street corner walls and tacked onto poor unsuspecting council planted saplings on common grounds and parks
Julian Wakeling - displays of shadow, animal puppetry
Libby Shearon - Post spill animals at the watering hole bar
Sinead Wheeler - "Circe's speed dating" - the witch / goddess Circe lures travellers to her table with Twiglets, Campari and Pepperami treats, and offers readings from the ancient cards ('Zoo Snap', 'Farmyard Donkey' etc) to determine their animal - Highland Cattle, seal, guinea fowl, goat.. If suitors spurn Circe's love, they are condemned to wear the mark of their beast eg. pigs' ears / snout, bull horns, cock's tail.
Ricarda Vidal and the Animals of Boss Farm - what does a Greek frog say? -Animal language translation project.
Daisy Delaney - Drive by safari
Ben Woodeson - Gold Fish Soup. Ben serves cold gold fish soup in honor of Marco Evaristti's gold fish in a blender. The soup will be distributed free of charge!
Rachael House - the Pet-Tastic museum and attractions. Rachael will be introducing the Cynocephalus Nation, and asking ‘Do dog headed people walk among us?’
Charlie Fox and the Urban Bear Research Centre - Turning the tide of ethology, bear and comrades will be sharing the rules and manners of contemporary bear etiquette. Humans will be invited to enter Urban Bear’s special acclimatized tent to share tips on the latest fashion, movements and manners from ursatopia. Debretts meets Selfridges, Urban Bear spares no man or woman in search for answers to animal/human behaviours, in a make-it-up research programme
Frog Morris - reading his animal poems to passers by
Sarah Doyle - Butterlies - The Monarch Butterfly and Illuminati
Linda Barck - Nesting on the green for one day only. The Fantastical, Fanatical, Featherosity Altar. For all the beaked and feathered creatures, that lives in myth, religion and all those magical and in between spaces, we will pray, offer, worship and confess to you on this one fabulous day. May the egg be brought safe to the other shore and the birdman live eternally.
Magnus Irvin - Travels with Captain Magno. Part 1
Raul Pina Perez -the painter and the philosopher'': PORKY PAYS
Lady Lucy and Drawing Exchange - Make drawings around Camberwell Green taking 'Animal Farm' as a departure point. No drawing experience necessary - all welcome
COTH - Cult of the Harvester (Sarah Sparkes and Simon Neville) with 'JISM- Conscientious Carnivores Contemplate Happy Meats'
Marc Vaulbert De Chantilly - In the Middle Ages animals were tried in local courts for crimes ranging from theft and vandalism, to homicide and sexual perversion. Marseilles Lion, Eton rat, and Dodd the Dog. All must hang
Jo David - Invocation of the Pegasus. Through a series of interventions, an attempt will be made to resurrect, or recreate, the lost ancient symbolic creature.
Geraldine Swayne - Shepherdess of the human herd
Calum F Kerr - Dr Gerald Van Elk presents: Are You Wild Enough? Dr Gerald Van Elk is Camberwell’s leading Ethologist. He is conducting a study on the wild behaviour of animals, human and non-human alike on the Green. He will present a short lecture and interview throughout the day the animal menagerie asking questions pertaining to his research and performing tests relating to Aggression; Communication; Group Behaviour; Instinct; Learning and Reproduction. Please note: Dr Van Elk is NOT a member of the APBC (Association of Pet Behavioural Councillors).
Jacqueline Utley - brings small enclosures to the green; where tales from past fairs merge with the fictional creating parallel miniature worlds which visitors can help build.
Simon Ould, Liam Scully, Vanessa Scully
A Goat

Supported by Space Station Sixty-Five and Camberwell Arts

Chutney Preserves Blog

Jackson, Madonna, Prince

2010-06-08T18:26:00.011+01:00

19 June - 3 July 2010
11-6pm Thursday - Saturday
Private View: Saturday June 19th 6-8pm

Trade Gallery
1 Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ
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Trade Gallery is part of the new One Thoresby Street building

Sarah Doyle’s lively series of drawings are created on the pages of a colouring book – of which the printed, bubbly outlines of monkeys, houses, gardens, jolly looking people and so forth are still visible. Printed images like these are approximations of reality, and at early age form the foundations of our ability to read, recognise and participate with images, icons and symbols.

Doyle’s felt tip pen drawings respond to the call of the book, to colour in, but the response uses a completely different set of imagery, that of iconic pop stars. In spite of what we know about the subject matter - Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna - Doyle’s multifarious representations manage to carve out a space that avoids a kind of pop art nausea caused by an over-familiarity with the subject, and the interpretation of the subject in art.

In short her deployment of two sets of imagery, the book’s, and the pop stars’ complicates our reading of the work and creating a deeply peculiar and idiosyncratic set of drawings.

Trade will present a selection of artworks from Doyle’s series of 100 Michael Jacksons, 100 Madonnas, 100 Princes, in the main gallery space.

Recent exhibitions include - 'The Nexus Treatment', Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery and 'Celebrated Sobriquets', The Surgery London. Group Exhibitions include - Transition Gallery, London, Primo Alonso, London The Portman Gallery, , London and Elevator Gallery, London. Doyle’s work also includes collaborations Elle magazine, Tatty Devine, Upset! The Rhythm, Surface 2 Air.

Gallery Director
Bruce Asbestos
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Peckham Peacocks

2010-06-07T16:47:00.007+01:00

I will be at Rachael House's Peckham Peacocks event in the guise of a mod mechanic. I'll be customizing mobility scooters and various other vehicles on the day, so if you would like your scooter or other wheeled vehicle to be embellished in a mod scooter style do come along and become a member of the Peckham Peacocks Mobility Scooter Club. There will also be performances by The Red Wheelies mobility scooter formation team as well as mod makeovers and lots more.

More info:

We are pleased to tell you about the new project by Rachael House, Peckham Peacocks, a mobility scooter meet in Peckham Square.

Peckham Peacocks is a Peckham Space commission, and is an art event for mobility scooter riders, foot powered micro scooter riders, children’s scooter riders and pedestrians.

Peckham Peacocks is a free event.
Date- 12th June 2010
Time- 2.00pm-5.00pm
Place- Peckham Square, Peckham High Street, London SE15 5RS
Disabled access
All welcome
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rail: Peckham Rye
buses: 12,36,171,37,63,78,136,177,197,363,381,436, P12,P13

With special guests The Red Wheelies, mobility scooter formation display team, performing at 3.00pm.

Please contact Rachael House at rachaelhouse@btinternet.com for more information or images.

Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art

2010-05-25T23:35:00.008+01:00

8th June - 24th October 2010

Tues - Sat 10 - 5pm
Sun 2 - 5pm

Lewis Glucksman Gallery
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
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Curated by Chris Clarke and Matt Packer

Artists include: Marc Bijl, David Blandy, Alejandro Cesarco, Anne Collier, Sarah Doyle, Fergus Feehily, Dan Graham, Jim Lambie, David Lamelas, Linder, Dennis McNulty, Bettina Pousttchi, Baldvin Ringsted, Meredyth Sparks, and Mika Tajima / New Humans

The mixtape is more than just a compilation. It is a way of conveying an idea, mood or theme through a selection of particular songs and communicating a message to a recipient.

The mixtape is a personal object, illustrated with idiosyncratic cover art and handwritten lines. It often ended up saying more about the maker than the songs or musicians chosen.

Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art is a selection of visual artworks that use the materials and imagery that surround and accompany music. It includes artists who acknowledge the influence of album covers, posters, videos, instrumentation and assorted musical paraphenalia in their own work, often referencing the distinct genres, styles and seminal moments of popular music history.

Mixtapes also addresses the notion of the artist as a fan, as someone who incorporates their own musical tastes and preferences in making visual art. In this way, the exhibition explores both the intimate and expressive aspects of art and music.

For further information and images please contact:
Eileen Kearney, Retail + Communications Manager
T. +353 21 490 1844 F. +353 21 490 1823 E. info@glucksman.org

Glucksman curators Matt Packer and Chris Clarke discuss the Mixtapes show, video by Fiona Kearney

CURATORIAL DISCUSSION Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art from Fiona Kearney on Vimeo.

Resort at Residence Gallery

2010-04-28T23:45:00.000+01:00

Sarah Doyle is showing a large mirror piece in the forthcoming exhibition "Resort" at Residence Gallery

Artists:
Sarah Doyle, Marta Bakst, Heather Tweed, Robert Hawkins, Tony Payne, Lisa Freeman, Kevin Ward, Heena Kim, Alex Chappel, Marisa Futernick, Eleanor Lindsay Finn, Scott Groeniger, Kirsten Rae Simonsen, Mark Scott-Wood, Lee Cavaliere, Ben Parry, Deej Fabyc, Hania Stella-Sawicka, Natalie Sanders, Wiracha Darochai, Ella Lucas, Craid Template, Ingrid Z

8 May - 30 May 2010
Wed - Sat. 11am-6pm
Sun 12pm-5pm
Private View: Friday 7 May 6-10pm

Grand opening of new space at 229 Victoria Park Road... Somewhere between Bermuda and 2012
Download press release PDF

The Residence
229 Victoria Park Road
London, E9 7HD
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info@residence-gallery.com
+44 (0)20 8985 0321

P.S I Love You Exhibition

2010-04-27T18:40:00.010+01:00

Beatgirls from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.

I have an animation featuring the wives and girlfriends of The Beatles in the P.S I Love You exhibition this week

P.S. I LOVE YOU is a week of music, performance, art, happenings and high jinks dedicated to The Beatles taking place at Bradford Playhouse
27th April - 9th May.

Curated by artist filmmaker, curator and self confessed Beatles anorak Jean McEwan,
P.S. I LOVE YOU combines cutting edge performance and visual art with live music, film, games and workshops, dressing up, karaoke, DJ sets and much much more.

The P.S. I LOVE YOU exhibition brings together an eclectic range of creative responses to The Beatles from established and emerging artists working nationally and internationally, including :

- artists films - painting - bespoke furniture - infographics - video installation- photography - animation - multiples - participatory projects - illustration - performance video - digital drawings - from:

Sybil Aadelaja • Gary Birnie • Morgan Beringer • Tam Dean • Burn Maria • Cobo • Ursula Cheng • Michael Deal • Sarah Doyle • Alan Dunn • The East Dumbartonshire String Ensemble • The East Morton and Riddlesden Sunday Painters Association • Carla Easton • Emily Farncombe • Laura-Jane Foley • Sarah Fordham • Claire Grant • Alex Hetherington • Seiko Kato • Callum Kellie • Louise McLennan • Natalie Murray-Hurst • Tamsyn Mystkowski • Janie Nicoll • Bill Parker • Lindsay Perth • Genevieve Ryan • Sea of Monsters • Fabio Sassi • Robert Steven • Katie Thomas • Ryan Thompson • Bella Wood • James Wright

A special limited edition P.S. I LOVE YOU zine will accompany the exhibition and be distributed at the P.S. I LOVE YOU events. The zine will feature original artwork, Beatle fan fiction and memories from The Beatles concerts at The Guamant in Bradford, from:

Bruce Barnes • Samantha Beswick • Maria Cobo • Sam Hart • Graham Hoyle • Robert Hope • Kath Gill • Lucy Munro • Catherine McEwan • Jean McEwan •
Nicola Smith • James Wright
The exhibition will be up for the whole PS I LOVE YOU period, and there will be a launch party on Tuesday 27th from 7pm until 9pm. Why not come down and meet some of the artists involved and pick up your copy of the zine?

Bradford Playhouse
4-12 Chapel Street
Bradford, BD1 5DL
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P.S I Love You on Facebook

P.S I Love You blog

Firestation Arts Centre

2010-04-12T21:43:00.003+01:00

I currently have my animation work on show at Firestation Arts Centre. If you're in Windsor do pop down :)

The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture
The Old Court
St Leonards Road
Windsor
SL4 3BL
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Outcasting

2010-04-06T22:33:00.005+01:00

I have two animations included in Outcasting, an online moving image gallery curated by Michael Cousin

Season 12 of Outcasting will be broadcast from 1 April - 31 May and features work by Hondartza Fraga, Sarah Doyle, Neale Howells, Rachel Wilberforce, Alysse Stepanian, Giulia Ricci, Henry Gwiazda, Lauren Moffatt & Kevin J Pocock.

www.outcasting.org

GHost II

2009-12-05T21:38:00.012Z

Opheliyah from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.

Friday, December 18, 2009
6:00pm - 10:00pm

St John’s Church on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA
(opposite Bethnal Green tube)
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A night of artist films, performances and moving image interventions to celebrate the darkest days of the season and to welcome in the ghosts that inhabit them. With moving image installations around the foyer and belfry and a screening of artist films on a movie-sized screen in the nave.

Plus, as a finale a screening of

Mario Bava's 1963 classic, I tre volti della paura: La goccia d'acqua

And, of course,

Mulled wine and minced pies!

With (in no particular order): Glenn Church, Jo Wonder, Geraldine Swayne, Daisy Delaney, Sinead Wheeler, Magnus Irving, Sarah Doyle, Tessa Garland, Lisa Fielding Smith, Rebecca Feiner, Sam Treadaway, Katja Tukiainen, Sarah Breen Lovett, Calum F Kerr, Anne Charlotte Morgenstein, Andrew Graves-Johnston, Richard Mansfield, Fernando Cestari, Mikey Georgeson, Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Geoff and the Daughters of Moroni, Miyuki Kasahara, Jo David, Julian Wakeling, Derek Jordan, and David Buckley on the ORGAN

curated by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal

Visit our website for more info: host-a-ghost.blogspot.com or join our Facebook group.

With thanks to St John’s Church on Bethnal Green, the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), Betting on Shorts, Paul Dillon, Jonathon McKay, and Intellect Books

The Dissolving Cube

2009-11-16T12:40:00.006Z

Opening on Thursday 26th November 4– 8pm
Exhibition continues 27th November – 5th December
Open Thursday and Fridays 4 – 7pm and Saturdays 1 – 6pm
At Portman Gallery at Morpeth School

We hope you can come to the opening of ‘The Dissolving Cube’ at Portman Gallery where we will be running the show as a festival.
You will be able to physically enter the works of Ryo Ikeshiro, Simon Katan and Andrew Cooper becoming exposed to imagery, sound and colour which you can manipulate. Other work has its focus or location in the surrounding area and way beyond as exemplified by the poet Hassan Najmi who speaks to us from Morocco in a moving film by Samuel Shimon.

The work literally looks everywhere and uses anything. A glimpse of the normally hidden world of the institution contained within the school, with its labyrinth of departments and offices will be given by David Collins, and the nooks and crannies of local housing and its politics will be explored by Laura Oldfield Ford and Shireen Drarabi. The discarded and rejected, in the form of objects, donated by students and staff will be given a new lease of life through the drawing and story telling of Antonio Cabrera.

Dean Kenning and Emma Hart will question the frontiers between the inner and outer world. Following the dialogical method proposed by radical pedagogist Paulo Freire, students working with Dr Kenning will respond to situations set in the local area depicted through isotype picture language. Daisy Delaney will also locate thought provoking traffic signs in the school grounds and surrounding area. The very air itself will carry some of the work in the form a subtle new piece of contemporary electronic music. The music will change through random interactions each time it is heard and was written especially for The Dissolving Cube by Kristian Sakulku and Raymond Yuenfai Vuong.

New copies of the Dark times will be created thought the show by Paul Sakoilsky and his editorial team recruited from the rank and file students at Morpeth as he invites them to take back what’s theirs, i.e., the world. The Dark times is the only newspaper that shows us the shadow image that the media normally projects for our digestion.
After all this you may want to relax so the artists have created lounge for you, Relax in a comfy chair surrounded by hallucinated wall paper by Sarah Sparkes and rubber creatures worthy of the medieval underworld of Hieronymus Bosch by Naomi St.Clair-Clarke. With the numerous miniature portraits staring at you from the mantle piece created by Heike Kelter from Berlin and her crew (students from Morpeth) you certainly won’t feel lonely. Sarah Doyle has created a mirror that reflects the joys of hearth and home while René Luckhardt gives us a comforting image of a grandmother Norman Bates would be proud of.
The Dissolving Cube incorporates an on-going exhibition, a symposium “Art, Learning and Liberation” and a grand finale of artists’ performances, “The Return of The Repressed”

Portman Gallery
Morpeth School
London E2 0PX
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(Tube: Bethnal Green)

Part 1- Exhibition opening on Thursday 26th November 4– 8pm
Part 2-“Art, Learning and Liberation” a symposium, 28th November 11-5pm
Part 3 “Return of the repressed” performance event, 5th December 1– 5.30pm

The Dissolving Cube presents work which corrupts the boundaries between object, word, performance, sound, the viewer and the viewed. The work includes visual, poetic and sound art forms which blend together to dissolve artificial boundaries between separate art works. The show will pose questions concerning art's purpose. The work will interact with the audience of the school and local area. Several artists will be working with students to produce work for the show. The cube will mutate, dissolve and reach out down Portman Place, beyond Globe road from four different zones. The Dissolving Cube incorporates an on-going exhibition, a symposium “Art, Learning and Liberation” and a grand finale of artists’ performances, “The Return of The Repressed”
Curated by Andrew Cooper

Part I – Exhibition in the Portman Gallery and beyond
Zone 1 – The Inner Zone
A functioning lounge complete with wall paper, pictures, domestic ornaments, memorabilia and comfy chair.
Heike Kelter, Sarah Sparkes, Sarah Doyle, René Luckhardt, Naomi St Clair-Clarke
Zone 2 – The Oyster Zone
Material and people are gathered to produce transformative works.
David Collins, Paul Sakoilsky, Antonio Cabrera
Zone 3 – Twilight Zone
Experiences are offered to visitors when they enter three booths and a horizontal cabinet. They can in turn leave their own impressions by adding work to the zone.
Simon Katan, Ryo Ikeshiro, Andrew Cooper
Zone 6 – Outreach zone
Work investigating and reaching out into the surrounding gallery and beyond.
Laura Oldfield Ford, Dean Kenning, Shireen Darabi, Emma Hart, Daisy Delaney, Hassan Najmi
All Zones
Kristian Sakulku, Raymond Yuenfai Vuong

PART 2 - “Art, Learning and Liberation” What use is art in schools?
Symposium, 28th November 11am – 5pm
Discussion Chaired by Ian Hunt
Speakers include:
Dean Kenning (artist and critic)
Andrew Cooper (artist and teacher)
Emma Hart (artist)
Leanne Turvey (Tate Modern Schools Curator)
Susan Sheddan (Tate Modern Schools Curator)
Charlie Fox (artist and teacher)
David Collins (artist and Head of Art, Wormwood Scrubs)
Corinna Till (artist)
Tina Gregoriou (artist and teacher)
Grigoris Papazafiriou (artist and teacher)
Students from Morpeth School

PART 3 -The Return of the Repressed - Grand Finale
Saturday 5th December 2-5pm,
What has been repressed for the last three decades will be raised from the ground in a carnival of artist's performances.
Charlie Fox
Mark Mc Gowan
Miyuki Kasahara
Laura Oldfield Ford
Nebuchadnezza
Paul Sakoilsky and Dark Times Editorial Staff
Thump and Fiend

For more info email -portmangallery@morpeth.towerhamlets.sch.uk

Live Art Residency with Chisenhale Gallery

2009-11-09T14:20:00.008Z

Live Art Residency on www.sarah-doyle.com

For the past month I have been working on the Live Art Residency with Chisenhale Gallery. Creating work with pupils from Chisenhale Primary School inspired by Tariq Alvi's 'The Meaning' exhibition.
Using collage and mirrors the pupils worked in groups and created and filmed their own kaleidoscopes and made bunraku puppets.
The residency will be completed with a performance and film of the puppets and kaleidoscope film being shown to the school.

Chisenhale
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Gallery Workshop

2009-09-15T20:10:00.005+01:00

If you would like to make some kaleidoscopes and mirrorball costumes please join me this Saturday afternoon with your family at Chisenhale gallery :)

For each exhibition Chisenhale offers families an opportunity to respond to the current exhibition by participating in an informal drop-in workshop that is devised and facilitated by a practicing artist.
Saturday 19 September 2009, 2 - 5pm

Free, no booking required
Join artist Sarah Doyle for a free afternoon drop-in family workshop inspired by Tariq Alvi’s exhibition. Suitable for all ages, but young children must be accompanied by an adult.

Chisenhale
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
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watch a kaleidoscope projection from the family day below:

more images from the family day here

Nunhead Arts Week

2009-09-14T23:00:00.015+01:00

I have a window in this years Nunhead Arts Week.
Five artists have been invited to make work for the windows of local shops along the main road in Nunhead. Part of the Nunhead Arts Week 2009. This project has been kindly supported by Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council.

The private view an opening event for the arts week is on Friday 18th September from 6-9pm at:
Nunhead Community Centre
56 Nunhead Lane
London, SE15
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My shop window is at Mummy J Fashions is titled “Mummy Superior”

I was fascinated the fable of the nun who was beheaded on Nunhead Green in the reformation of the monasteries in the 16th century. Although there is no evidence to support the story of the beheaded nun the story is part of folklore.
The shop I am working with for Nunhead Arts Festval sells Hollandais fabric, which is very popular in West Africa. The fabric designs on this cloth were often developed to focus on the visualisation of proverbs and folklore.
For the window I have designed my own pattern inspired both by the patterns on the Hollandais cloth and the legend of the nun beheaded on the green.

Having lived opposite a nunnery as a child although not being brought up Catholic, I viewed the nuns from a distance. I always thought that they looked very stylish in their simple white and black robes. On the rare occasions I saw them on an outing they always seemed to be otherworldly beings, gliding along they were serene yet disconcerting in their otherness. I have painted small images of nun like girls wearing black and white dresses and photographed them around the green. They are my own versions of the Cottingley Fairies, phantoms from a possibly imagined story.

Mummy J fashions
34 Nunhead Green
SE15 3QF
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Download the PDF brochure with full listings of all the events happening at Nunhead Arts Week 2009 from the official site

My new site!

2009-09-14T00:17:00.004+01:00

I have a brand new portfolio website, do take a look :)

http://art.sarah-doyle.com/

The Blocksmith at Chutney 2

2009-06-11T21:29:00.003+01:00

Get ready to be forged in pain on the 28th June 2009
Chutney Preserves blog

Police and Violence

2009-06-07T23:33:00.003+01:00

The Guy Hilton Gallery Presents
POLICE AND VIOLENCE at the SASSOON GALLERY in Peckham, Blenhiem Grove

Saturday 6th June 2009 4-11pm

Following his reenactments of the death of Jean Charles De Mendez, and most recently Ian Tomlinson, Mark McGowen continues this theme by curating a one day event a based on real live events about pigs
kicking people’s heads in. Featuring art, live performances, bands & more from some of the most interesting contemporary artists based in and around London. You are invited to participate in what promises to be an anarchic, interactive and informative event.

Anne Margrete Bergh, Shitter of the Yard, O. B. Alessi, Richard Dedomenici, Sarah Doyle, Chiara Mu, Simon Ould, Louise Loudoun, Robin Bale, Charlie Fox, Neil Drabble, Sara Burgess, Jenny Gordon, FREEE, David C West, Aaron Barschak, Gilbert and George, Micalef, Byron Pritchard, Yul Hilton, Jackie Clark, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rachel Cattle, Harry Pye, Scottish Weirdo’s, Jim Woodall, Vanessa Mitter, Kate Kotcheff, Geraldine Ryan, Liam Herne, Phoebe Collings James, Fiona Symes, Francis Thorburn, Honky, Calum F. Kerr And many more.

Propeller Island: Power of a Discord

2009-05-06T23:18:00.011+01:00

I am showing my animation "Dancehall Danceoff" at this event on Saturday 9th May

PROPELLER ISLAND PRESENTS: Power of a Discord

Press Release:

Propeller Island is an artist led collaboration based in London. It operates out of a variety of venues as a mobile arena for exhibitions, residencies and events. It takes its name from the novel by Jules Verne, which is a story of a string quartet that gets lured to perform on a floating utopian island. Taking the structure of the book as the framework, the group intend to present an equal number of projects, each representing one of the 25 chapters of the book.
The first chapter, ‘The Quartet’ took place in an empty retail property in South Kensington
for the month of January 2009. This culminated in a four-day live extravaganza, which was generously supported by The Brompton Estate.

“We must learn to judge a society more by its sounds, by its art, and by its festivals, than by its statistics” *

‘Power of a Discord’ is the second chapter in the novel, and for the event we have invited artists to contribute to an evening of film, performance, music and lectures.
The work showing celebrates, criticises and examines the multi-faceted uses of sound and music. Including musings on melody and discord, music as protest, patriotism or identity.
Musicals, opera, wrestling, the Dutty Wine dance and much much more.

Featuring:
Team Beswick and Pye, Ildiko Buckley, Jimmy Dixon, Sarah Doyle, Jamie Dyson, Amy Feneck, Charlie Franklin, Pippa Gatty, Alex Glen, Dee Harding, Jane Haughton, Jonathon Hood, David Hopkinson, Jean Louis Lanteri Laura, Patti Lennox-Boyd, Martin Lofty, Lady Lucy, Eric Maclennan, Mark McGowan, Warren Mclachlan, Melville& Mitchell, Matthew Poland, Harry Pye, Keira Rathbone, Christopher Rollen, Jarrod Sanderson, Thea Stallwood, Jamie Stevens (undereducated), Adam Smith & Keiko Takahashi, Katharine Tolloday & Michael Grime, Jon Trayner, Catherina Turk, Simon Webb, Phillip Wilson-Perkin, and more...

Power of a Discord will run from 5 – 10pm on Saturday 9th of May

Upstairs @ The Bear
296a Camberwell New Road
London, SE5 0RP
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propellerisland@live.co.uk
Propellerisland Blog
Propellerisland on Facebook

Drawing Room

2009-04-10T20:31:00.002+01:00

Extract from 'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel.' A book written by Amy Prior with drawings by Sarah Doyle

Camera: James Newton
Film editing: Joe Walsh, Amy Prior.
Music: 'Je Suis Peuple Sans Visage' by DJ Rupture

Drawing Room from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.

Shown as part of week-long film festival at the Curzon Soho/I.C.A, 2007.
http://sarahdoyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-cant-believe-how-great-i-feel-update.html

The Role Of The Village Idiot

2009-03-27T22:30:00.003Z

Sarah Doyle will be embodying the spirit of Pierrot the original emo kid for The Role Of The Village Idiot

"This work is based on ideas and suggestions by the artist and writer Paul O'Kane concerning the question of a necessary expulsion that may lie at the heart of the formation of any community."

THE ROLE OF THE VILLAGE IDIOT

An afternoon of public art/street performance on Peckham Square Saturday
28th March 2009, 2pm til 6pm.

The theme of the afternoon is performance and the role of the village idiot. Obviously we have the holy fools, shakespears court jester, the dada art movement, but the village idiot is something else he/she is something other, something familiar, somebody we all know and recognise in our local communities. Here we will attempt to investigate, the role of the village idiot, the question of 'a necessary expulsion', the emotion of shame and how that relates to our daily life and the strange people that we meet, street theatre and public art. Mainly using gesture and small props the artists will attempt to engage with the everyday happenings in peckham square. There will be a reception in the Bunhouse Pub opposite peckham square in the evening.

curated by Mark McGowan.

Artists:
Marcia Farquhar, Plastique Fantastique, Brian Dawn Chalkey, Hunt and Darton, Aaron Barschak, Edwina Ashton, Daniel Lehan, Galatica Hilton, Andrew Cooper, David C West, Sarah Doyle, Olivia Jane Ransley, Marcus Cope, Simon Ould, Alicia Logan, Mieko Takanami, Swarfega, Charlie Fox, Neil Drabble, Jack Catling, Calum F Kerr, Adrian Lee, Frog Morris, Phoebe Collings James,
lee campbell, sean kirwin, sara burgess, robyn minogue, lucy rushton, CApStAn StRiNg, Stephen Micalef, Rachael House, Jo David, Robin Bale, Vanessa Mitter, Deej Fabyc, Paulo Pierrea and more

Arty and Interviews

2009-03-13T13:46:00.008Z

Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow

I have work about actresses playing other actresses in biopics in the current 'Fame' issue of Arty magazine which you can buy online here: Arty Magazine

still image from 'The Audrey Hepburn Story' by Sarah Doyle

Here are links to two interviews connected to my Biopic work recently shown at
Transition Gallery for the Too Much Is Not Enough exhibition

Jotta profile of Sarah Doyle's biopic paintings

Run Riot interview with Sarah Doyle

Zero De Conduite

2009-02-25T20:20:00.004Z

27.02.2009, from 20:00 until late
£3.00
CHEAP BAR. OPEN LATE.

Start Time:
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 3:00am

Elevator Gallery
Mother Studios
Queens Yard
White Post Lane
Hackney Wick
London E9 5EN
tel: 0772 419 5479
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A platform for performance artists, musicians, sound artists, video and filmmakers, followed by an after Party.

Artist Oriana Fox will be composing an reinactment of Yves Klein's performance painting where he used "living paintbrushes". He covered nude women models with his signature blue paint (International Klein Blue, IKB) and then in a piece of performance art in front of an audience "painted" with them on large sheets of paper by directing them verbally. Instead of using naked women Fox will be using male performers.

Geisha brings to Elevator her exotic and erotic electro pop and the legendary Craig Template returns.

Also exciting new video art screenings and installation around the gallery space including Sarah Doyle's 'Dancehall Danceoff'.

DJ's will groove with you late into the night...

ARTISTS CONFIRMED-

SARAH DOYLE
GEISHA
CRAIG TEMPLATE
PUSSY POWER
ORIANA FOX
GRACE MORGAN & HER BEAUTIFUL MINIONS
CAROLINE SMITH
BILL LESLIE
BRAM THOMAS ARNOLD & ELEANOR WYNNE
ERICA SCOURTI
DAWN WOOLLEY
MATTHEW APPLEBY
LAURA OLDFIELD FORD
RAAGNAGROK
BRIAN RHODES
WARREN GARLAND
VJ MALT DUCK
DJ SNOOZIE HEXAGON
DJ DAVID NOTARIUS OF SOUTH HACKNEY RADIO

PLUS DJ'S AND MUCH MORE.

Kiss Of A Lifetime

2009-02-11T21:04:00.003Z

My piece in the Kiss Of A Lifetime show is based on the William March book and 1956 film “The Bad Seed”. The focus of the film is Rhoda a murdering sociopath child. She uses the phrase ‘what would you give me for a basket of kisses?’ to ingratiate herself and get what she wants from adults. Her syrupy facade hiding the fact she is a murderer and "a cold, self-sufficient child who plays by her own rules".

Start Time:
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 5:30pm
End Time:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:00pm

Show info:
The Kiss of a Lifetime is a limited edition print show featuring the work of both internationally renowned artists and emerging talent from the UK and abroad.

This show aspires to give an overview to what the ‘Kiss’ signifies within our contemporary culture in the broadest sense, from the romantic to the lifesaving, from the prosaic to the violent.

The show is presented salon style, with the artists proofs pinned to the wall – like that of a love forlorn bedroom covered in posters of idolisation.

With over Ninety artists the show features; Mark Applegate, Magda Archer, Edward Barton, Paul Becker, Dave Beech, Stratton Barret, Divyesh Bhanderi, Simon Blackmore, Andrew Bracey, Brass Art, Lee Campbell, Paul Caton, Suki Chan, Lucienne Cole, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Sandy Christie, Faye Claridge, Philip Constable, Nick Crowe, Sophia Crilly, Antony Crook, Gordon Dalton, Alexandra David, Jo David, Stephen Davids, Gary Daly, Paul Davis, [deletia], Sarah Doyle, Sam Ely & Lynn Harris, Tim Etchells, Freee, Doug Fishbone, Bec Garland, Dom Garwood, Dave Gledhill, David Griffiths, S Mark Gubb, David Hancock, Shona Handley, Paul Harfleet, Richard Healy, Andy Hewitt, Len Horsey, Rachael House, Stewart Home, Hilary Jack, Mel Jordan, Naomi Kashiwagi, Mark Kennard, Serena Korda, Abigail Lane, Jean-Pierre Lapeyre, Wiebke Leister, Chara Lewis, Charles Lindsay, Katrin Lock, Cathy Lomax, Tessa Lynch, Jo McGonigal, Mark McGowan, Rory MacBeth, Jude Macpherson, Melanie Manchot, Jim Medway, Alexis Milne, Jason Minsky, Kristin Mojsiewicz, David Molloy, Franz Otto Novotny, Joerg Obergfell, Matthew Pawson, Gary Peploe, Vinca Petersen, Anneké Pettican, Harry Pye, Brian Reed, Katy Richardson, Isabel Rock, Liam Scully, Kenny Schachter, David Shrigley, Pamela So, Lisa Solminski, Paul Stanley, Chris Taylor, William Titley, James Topple, Jessica Voorsanger, Charlotte Young, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, John Walsh, Wendy and her Friends, Simon Woolham, Andrea Zapp, + Further Special Guests TBA…

See the BBC news report about the show

Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street
Piccadilly
Manchester, M1 2WH
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Special thanks to: Alyson Doocey, Wendy Roberts, David Gledhill, Sophia Crilly, BEARSPACE and VANE.

This show is dedicated to Tony Hart rip.

Refreshments provided by: BECKS, APOTHECA & DOUGH.

SUPPORT BY: POLITE COMPANY & ROGUE ARTISTS STUDIOS

MEDIA SUPPORT BY: FLUX MAGAZINE

Too Much Is Not Enough

2009-01-06T12:05:00.009Z

Sarah Doyle is showing paintings and a short animation of actresses playing other actresses in biopics for the too much is not enough show.

Artists:
Kim L Pace, Jessica Voorsanger, Gavin Toye, Cathy Lomax, Sarah Doyle

10 January - 8 February 2009
Fri-Sun 12-6pm
Private View: Friday 9 Jan 6-9pm

'Fandom is one of the purest forms of unrequited love; it is both euphoric and destroying. You love them and they don't want to be anywhere near you.' Jessica Voorsanger.

The delirium of fame and fandom along with the darker underbelly of worn out and depraved celebrity define the work in this show by five artists who each have their own fascination with this heady subject matter.

The psychological compensation of either identifying with, or idolising a star can be seen as an attempt to make up for the inadequacies of modern life. However far from being a reactionary dismissal of these adolescent and dysfunctional yearnings, the participating artists deem identification with their subject matter and wry humour a legitimate site from which to work.

Themes in the show include Patrick Swayze and his equine love interest, the inevitable end of the kitsch Hollywood idol Jayne Mansfield, screaming teenage fans, actresses playing other actresses and karaoke wannabes.

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 8986 3888

See more images from Too Much Is Not Enough here on Flickr

Abigail's Arty

2008-11-19T23:55:00.003Z

A show about taste

22nd Nov - 21st Dec 2008

Private View: Fri 21 Nov 6-9pm

Artists:
Alex Michon, Alex Virji, Antonio Gianasi, Ben Newton, Cathy Lomax, Chris Randall, Gavin Toye, Geraldine Swayne, James Unsworth, Jasper Joffe, Jimmy Conway-Dyer, Justin Pearce, Jonny Dawe, Kristen Cutlip, Lee Johnson, Mary Herbert, Matt Franks, Noah Sherwood, Robert Wornum, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Rose Gibbs, Sarah Doyle, Sarah Conway-Dyer, Tom Mason

Mike Leigh's play and film 'Abigails Party' was set around the changing attitudes of the aspiring middle classes of the suburban 1970s. It raised issues of social status - the keeping up of appearances - and the conflict of differing tastes.

The play finishes with the death of Lawrence, the arbiter of the 'high arts', following a night of cringe-worthy 'entertaining' by wife Beverley (Alison Steadman). She argues for her erotic painting over her husband's Van Gogh, her Demis Roussos over his Beethoven.

Abigail's Arty will transform the gallery space into a living space, showing art that's about contemporary taste.

Crimes Town
110 Church Street
London, N16 OJX
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See images from the Abigail's Arty show here on Flickr

AWOPBOPALOOBOP

2008-11-09T22:53:00.006Z

AWOPBOPALOOBOP

15 Nov – 21 Dec 2008

Private View: Fri 14 Nov 6-9pm

Artists:
Carolina Ambida, Michael Ajerman, Majed Aslam, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Paul Becker, Lindsey Bull , Jorge Cabieses, Melanie Carvalho, Rachel Cattle, Jake Clark, Mark Croxford, Sam Dargan, Roger Dilkes, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Rob Eagle, Patrick Galway, Mikey Georgeson, Antonio Gianasi, Mark Gubb, Roderick Harris, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Hebson, Rachael House, Paul Housley, Marc Hulson, Jasper Joffe, Annie Kevans, Hannah Knox, Lady Lucy, Cathy Lomax, Andrew Mania, Jennifer Merrell, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Natasha Morland, Tabitha Moses, Paul Murphy, Ben Newton, Marcus Oakley, Gary O’Connor, Nina Ogden, Laura Oldfield Ford, James Payne, Claire Pestaille, Esther Planas, Rachel Potts, Harry Pye, Polly Read, DJ Roberts, Joseph Ryken, Alli Sharma, Joe 'Sh*tter' Boyce, Charlie Stanley, Keara Stewart, Ilona Szalay, Emma Talbot, Chris Taylor, Emma Thatcher, Abbi Torrance, Gavin Toye, Katherine Tulloh, Edward Weldon, Jo Wilmot, Lara Viana

The synthesis of music and art has a long history from pop to post modern, with particular songs becoming integral to the making of individual pieces of work. Lyrics have a powerful artistic poignancy and with this in mind Transition Gallery have asked over sixty contemporary artists to make a new work inspired by a favourite lyric for Awopbopaloobop.

Unsurprisingly Awopbopaloobop features a diverse array of lyrics from the political rallying cry of the Internationale to the plaintive gospel of The Sweet Inspirations via The Ting Tings, Joy Division, The Smiths, Sibylle Baier, Pavement, PJ Harvey, The Jam and many more. Using a variety of media Awopbopaloobop transforms this cacophony of passionately felt lyrical paeans into visual manifestations of aural desire.

The launch of the rock 'n' roll issue of Garageland Magazine which features Jarvis Cocker, Thurston Moore, MIA, Kylie Minogue, Bernard Rhodes, Peter Liversidge, Slade in Flames, the top ten art bands and much more takes place on Sunday 30 November 4-6pm.

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 8986 3888

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Remember My Name

2008-10-19T21:48:00.002+01:00

Sarah Doyle is showing 21 small paintings of silent movie stars who didn't manage to make the smooth transition to talkies at the launch show of the new Sartorial Art Gallery in Kings Cross...

After four great years in Notting Hill, Sartorial Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its move to
Kings Cross in the heart of London's most exciting new art district. Sartorial Kings Cross will be one
of the largest new contemporary art galleries in London with 6000 square feet of exhibition space.
Sartorial is known for its commitment to ground-breaking art, unparalleled support of artists, and publication of the art world's favourite fun-sized magazine "The Rebel".

Two major shows launch the space:

REMEMBER MY NAME is about celebrities who thought they could only cope with life by being famous and then found out they couldn't. Showcasing Sartorial's Superstars plus bright new things:
Julie Bennett, Sarah Doyle, Mikey Georgeson, Gretta, Mat Humphrey, James Jessop, Jasper Joffe, Annie Kevans, Cathy Lomax, Martin McGinn, Gavin Nolan, Harry Pye, Chris Tosic, Gavin Toye.

BURNING CANDY - Three of the UK 's most notorious graffiti vandals, Cyclops, Sweet Toof , Tek33
have exclusively for this show created new works with their raw messy trademark punk style that has brought them cult status over the last two years. ‘Burning Candy' book with text by Olly Beck available.

PRIVATE VIEW OCTOBER 15th, 5 – 11pm. Music and Live Performances
Both exhibitions run until November 11th.
Tuesday to Saturday 1:30 to 7pm

SARTORIAL CONTEMPORARY ART
26 Argyle Square , London WC1H 8AP
T: + 44 (0) 20 7792 5882 / E: art@sartorialart.com
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Irregular Pulse

2008-07-14T15:02:00.003+01:00

July 30th - August 16th
open: Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 18.00 (Or by appointment)
Private view: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 6:00pm

FERREIRA PROJECTS
23 Charlotte Road
London, EC2A 3PB
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artists:
Ayling&Conroy, Bedwyr Williams, James R Ford, Russell Herron, Sarah Doyle, Stewart Gough

FERREIRA PROJECTS is proud to announce James R Ford’s first curatorial project – Irregular Pulse. Presenting a group of contemporary artists whose work is imbued with a sense of play and conceptual wit; spanning installation, sculpture, painting and video.

Ayling&Conroy are interested in making artwork that entertains, and involves various forms of audience engagement. Their practice has grown out of an interest in the context in which artwork is created and received, and the audience's participation with the work, wherever it exists; both at the point of experiencing the work in the gallery or in its wider dissemination through discussion, documentation and other types of media.

Bedwyr Williams represented Wales at the 2005 Venice Biennale with a project called ‘Basta’. His work involves stand-up comedy, sculpture and painting, posters and photography. He recently gave a performance at Royal College of Art, London and had a solo exhibition entitled ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’ at STORE at the start of 2008.

James R Ford is an artist whose practice is concerned with childlike past-times, pursuits and obsessions. His body of work consists of projects and investigations based around observations, process and play: ranging from a formula predicting Bond film plot structures, to tracking the lives of cigarette lighters, to covering a Ford Capri in over 4,000 toy cars. Ford’s latest work focuses on his fascination with his pet - utilising his adolescent cat as an art tool.

Russell Herron has produced a series of works as adverts, announcements, stickers, magazines, litter, wall paintings and performances as well as an online blog and an email listing service. His work frequently uses his own name as an intervention in an ever growing series of signs and free collectables. He is the founder of The Russellettes, a group of individuals who appear at private views and launches dressed in Russell Herron branded T shirts.

Sarah Doyle uses mixed media and drawing, along with video and multi media. The subjects dealt with typically involve popular culture and growing up. Her work concentrates on the emulation of icons and obsessions, feelings of isolation and trying to fit in. Doyle’s current work consists of paintings using nail varnish and nail technician tools on mirrors.

Stewart Gough’s sculptures are assemblages of everyday plastic objects and utility systems used as though real world 'Lego' bricks. Operating in the spirit of Archigram’s 'Instant Cities'; often implying an integrated mode of transport, decamping to facilitate their operation as sculptural event, thereby proposing a new, materially ‘merged down’ space for a positively ironic sculpture.

All participating artists will be exhibiting new or recent work. To accompany the show there will be a new limited edition collectable by Russell Herron and a special appearance by The Russellettes on the opening night.

Chutney Preserves - Two

2008-06-16T11:41:00.004+01:00

Image: Sarah Doyle Weed Arrangement

Chutney Preserves - Two:
'The Rot Sets In’

Sunday 22nd of June, 2008, on Camberwell Green, Camberwell
2pm till 7pm
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A juxtaposition of workplace with exhibition stage, or perhaps more coherently, experimental lab with ceremonial site, ‘The Rot Sets In’, is decorated like a fete with small gazebos and stalls, and a rotten twist. The fete is in effect, a one day public art work, which visitors to the green can interact with, or just observe if they choose. It will be a humorous and thought provoking display of a broad range of temporary art works and artists that will make reference and take resources from the fine borough of Camberwell.

Sarah Doyle will offer weeds, rescued from between the cracks of the paving stones of Camberwell’s’ streets, from her garden stall and invites you to make your own weed arrangement with her, whilst Naomi St Clair Clarke has made an effigy which you can ‘make clean’ with a wet sponge missile. Lady Lucy is a rotten portrait artist, offering to make rotten portraits of visitors to the green from her park bench, possibly beside Rachael House who shall be sharing edible dog poo from a dogs bottom. Ami Clarke will pluck small gifts from her bearded chin, Ben Woodeson will display a number of hand-printed t-shirts of Mayor Johnson, and Miriam Craik-Horan shall respond to Mendelssohn with a lawn mower engine on her face. Jo David proposes to create a cardboard obelisk and miss-information desk with rotten visitor information about Camberwell, Sarah Sparkes will send down messages from her nest in the hanging tree. Andrew Cooper has a composting Wicker Man lying on Camberwell’s lawn and Dean Kenning will ceremonially hoist a totem pole at sundown, made during the day, from collected bottles and cans. Rebecca Feiner will invite passers-by to rant about issues in ‘Ranter’s Corner’. As they do she will make a picture of them and display these, framed on a table. Julian Wakeling has taken a beautiful photograph of pears decomposing. He has made it into postcards and will write messages for visitors to take away. Libby Shearon has transferred images of hobby horses and other spirits from the land onto business men’s white shirts, and Marq P Kearey has a muddy pool with ambitions to facilitate low ebb’s, whilst Geraldine Swayne shall cheer us all with rotten ballads, channelling voices from folk singers who frequented the green in days gone by. Continuing the musical responses, The Lonesome Cowboys From Hell, Calum F Kerr, Tim Flitcroft, Jan Maat and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, parade as The Wild ‘Worst’ on Camberwell Green with a rotten western arena, complete with fake camp fire. cApStAn StRiNg a rebel rouser, will embody the spirit of Captain Swing, the long dead peasant agitator. Darren O’Brien has been trying to train worms to make paintings – visitors will be invited to pick a worm to make a muddy painting that they can take away. Be repulsed by Gavin Toye’s revolting paintings and then hit a rotten egg on Ben Newton’s dart board game and take home a jar of green chutney.

Come, come, come along to the great festival of Camberwell Green – ‘The Rot Sets In’.

Another event organised by Sarah Sparkes and Marq P Kearey. Visit the blogsite at:
chutneypreserves@hotmail.co.uk
Chutney Preserves

Iceberg Enters Obelisk

2008-06-10T14:05:00.002+01:00

Friday 13th June 2008, 8pm -11pm £6/£5 concs.

Whitechapel Gallery
Angel Alley Entrance
80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street
London, E1 7QX
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Press release
A night of out-there music/film/performance plus 2D and 3D art featuring visual curation by the East End’s rising stars, Elevator Gallery, plus live performances from Charles Hayward of This Heat, Blood Stereo and Bolide Awkwardstra. Media partnership project with The Wire magazine A night of out-there music/film/performance plus 2D and 3D art featuring visual curation by the East End’s rising stars, Elevator Gallery, fresh from recent Arnolfini shows. Among the extensive list of participants there will be screenings from Heidi Kilpelainen and Matt Lippiatt in the auditorium, performance from Phoebe Davies and large inflatable work by Jeni Snell throughout the gallery. Live performances from Charles Hayward of This Heat, Chris Corsano and Sonic Youth collaborators Blood Stereo, plus astral jazz trance from Bolide Awkwardstra.
Detail & full participators list:
Film screenings, live performance, 2D, 3D
Elevator Gallery’s Cherie-Marie Veiderveld and Simon Ruben White, both fresh from recent Arnolfini shows, will be curating an extensive visual programme featuring including film screenings, live performance, 2D & 3D works.

In the auditorium: Oriana Fox, Antonella Ferrari, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Mark McGowan & Decima Productions, Laura May Lewis, Heidi Kilpelainen, Matt Lippiatt, Cherie-Marie Veiderveld, Simon Reuben White

On the walls and floors: Anahita Razmi, Natalie Sanders, Girolamo Marri, Sarah Doyle, Ingrid Z, Vasilis Chamam, Jeni Snell, Matt Lippiatt, Some Ghost & Phoebe Davies

Music
Charles Hayward
Best known as a founder member of the radically inventive This Heat, the UK group widely regarded as the missing link between Kraut-Rock and Post-Punk. The group continue to inspire generations of intrepid of musical explorers, heavily influencing the output of groups like Sonic Youth and Liars and anticipating a wealth of musical genres that would not surface for decades after their fragmentation. Moving forward with collaborations with Roxy Music’s Phil Manzenera, Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt, improv guru Lol Coxhill and a host of others, at the Whitechapel Charles Hayward will be delivering a solo performance on drums, electronics and vocals. As ever, expect the unexpected.

Blood Stereo
The siamese mind meld of Prick Decay/Decayer Pinga members Karen Constance (Polly Shang Quan Band), Dylan Nyoukis (Chocolate Monk Records head honcho) and an ever evolving additional cast. As established noise fetishists the duo has collaborated with the likes of Chris Corsano, C. Spencer Yeh plus Lee Renaldo and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth to name but a handful. Incantations ground from broken violins, fractured tape loops and intuitive vocal discoveries are just the beginning of the listeners’ journey.

Bolide Awkwardstra
Timeless astral excursions sparking a sinister, revelatory group trance music taking in the free jazz spirit of Art Ensemble of Chicago and their ilk and spiralling off into a cosmos of their own. Engrossing ritualistic improvisations of cathartic abandon.

My Magic Life

2008-05-13T11:33:00.006+01:00

May 23rd - June 19th 2008
Open Wed – Sat 1.30 – 7 pm
Private View Thurs May 22 6.30 – 9 pm (Performance and Magic Lantern Show)

Sartorial Contemporary Art
101a Kensington Church Street
London W8 7LN
T: 020 7792 5882 / E: art@sartorialart.com
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My Magic Life
A phantasmagoric exhibition

Introducing new paintings by Mikey Georgeson

Special Guests:
Melissa Alley, Eddie Argos, Anneke Bosma, Daisy Clarke, Andrew Cooper, Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky, Sarah Doyle, Jude Evans, Mikey Georgeson, Chris Gilvan-Cartwright, Nathan Penlington, Harry Pye, Paul Tecklenberg and Martin White

A phantasmagorical exhibition of painting, sculpture, film, sound and performance assembled by Mister Solo and his glamorous assistant Harry Pye.

Inspired by the life and magic of Edwardian conjuror David Devant, who changed his name from Wighton after seeing a painting called "David Devant Goliath". His catchphrase “All done by kindness” allowed him to delve into the world of spectres and demons in his illusions. Georgeson endeavours to manifest this duality in the pictorial magic of his paintings and performance as Mister Solo.
Mikey says: “Anyone hungry for magic should head to the Sartorial Gallery. I am joined by artists who share a restored childhood faith in magic – using passions as beacons. This allows them to replace irony with tears of joy. It will appear incredible that works of such richness could have been produced in this thin, non-ritualist civilization.”

Mikey Georgeson attended Chelsea School of Art from 1986–1989. In 1990 he moved to Brighton and formed the group David Devant & his Spirit Wife. His passion for performance and painting led to the evolution of Mister Solo. Georgeson and Pye have collaborated on a painting of Devant wowing a crowd. The show’s title is taken from Devant’s Autobiography. Devant reveals his nickname was Monkey Face, which curiously was also once Georgeson’s.

As well as Georgeson’s new large “back to front inside out” paintings the show will include painted Magic Instructions from Eddie Argos (Art Brut), Andrew Cooper’s Cabinet of Evocation, Paul Tecklenberg’s Spectrogram’s, Chris Rheinhardt’s Déjà Private View Box, Chris Gilvan-Cartwright’s sparkling landscapes of preternatural light, Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky’s magic lantern show as well as Pye’s own take on the David and Goliath story. A contribution from the world’s only poet-magician, Nathan Penlington, comes in the form of his recently unearthed adolescent magician’s diary.

The first 50 visitors will receive a uniquely packaged copy of ‘Shine A Light’ a new song by Mister Solo. The covers will form part of a miraculous limited edition booklet on sale through The Sartorial Gallery.

Watch Mister Solo aka Mikey Georgeson singing the Sartorial Art Gallery Theme Tune

'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' at Whitechapel Late Nights

2008-05-12T11:13:00.004+01:00

'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' at Whitechapel Late Nights
Originally uploaded by *purestar*

Video from May 3rd 2007 at Whitechapel Gallery, E1 www.whitechapel.org
animation: Sarah Doyle
reading: Amy Prior

The Nexus Treatment

2008-03-26T14:09:00.007Z

March 17th - July 14th 2008
Viewed from the street 24 hours
Launch Thursday 3rd April
6:30 - 8:30pm
all welcome

Waterloo Health Centre
5 Lower Marsh
London
SE1 7RJ
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Tube: Lambeth North, Waterloo
Rail: Waterloo
Buses: 12, 53, 76, 77, 176, 211, 341, 381

This is Space Station Sixty-Five's second off-site window project at this London GP practice. The Sapce Station Sixty-Five North Cross Road gallery and project space is undergoing architectural development. Please see the gallery website for this and further projects during 2008

Press Release:
The Nexus Treatment
A Space Station Sixty-Five Project at Waterloo Health Centre

Diamonds are forever ...
Seen through these St. Laurent glasses
And I’ve realized that I’ve arrived...
Kanye West, from Late Registration

In the crystalline animated world of Sarah Doyle “The Nexus Treatment” whirls and sparkles forever and ever. Counter intuitively utilising a hand made methodology,and consciously eschewing technological processes Doyle has crafted a Victorianesque hall of mirrors, with images taken from popular culture.

In the often rarefied realm of pedantic high art Doyle’s constituency is a revolutionary one She passionately and precisely studies and reveals the complex codes of young teenagers. Trawling through outdated hip hop videos, talking to and working with her younger siblings she identifies the “watch me now” shapes and movements which signify a universal need to belong, to be part of a group to fit in and to show off.

Doyle’s appropriation of this world, however, is no cheap holiday, there is an immersion and identification with it which goes back to her own experience of arriving in England as a teenager having been brought up in Africa. Unaware of the prevailing popular culture signifiers, references to TV shows, and imperceptible shifts in style she found herself to be “uncool” an outsider.

Her work meshes this yearning to belong, with a magical kaleidescopia of desire. The looped hand drawn images revealed in the facets of the spinning jeweled mirrors, when cut from their original meaning, take on a hypnotic quality. Like tarnished ballerinas on the top of a music box, Doyle’s tough girls dance for eternity in their strangely compelling cabinet of curiosities.

The Nexus Treatment is based on the title of a salon sign Doyle found near her home in South London. When googled, Doyle was amazed to find that it was revealed to be “an organization that designs and operates treatment programs for a wide range of child and adolescent problems” and it was also “a conditioning treatment used on Afro hair to make it more silky and straight like Caucasian hair” Both meanings strangely reverberated with the artist’s work. “I really liked the name” says Doyle “ it sounded futuristic and with the nexus meaning the center of focus it fitted with the work I had in mind”

Mixing futuristic elements and contemporary cultural references with clunky hobbyesue machinery, The Nexus Treatment signposts not only novel methods of art production but also introduces new places from where that work can be made.
Alex Michon

Sarah Doyle’s previous work has used other forms of dead media such as expoliting records to create drawing tools. Doyle has shown internationally in Japan and the Michael Jackson gallery in Germany. Her animation work was shown at the Whitechapel, Gasworks and The Portman gallery among others. She was part of Splashdown for Space Station Sixty-Five during the Whitstable Biennale 2006 and will be undertaking a commission for Space Station Sixty-Five during 2008.
Sarah Doyle lives and works in London.

Alex Michon is an artist writer and curator.

Faith

2008-02-25T16:38:00.002Z

curated by David Hancock

Edwin Aitken, Matthew Burrows, Simon Burton, Sarah Doyle, Steve Dutton/Steve Swindells, David Hancock, Thomas Helyar-Carwell, Barry Thompson, Cathy Ward, Isabel Young

Private View Thursday 6th march 6 - 9pm
exhibition runs from 6th March - 13th April
open: Thurs - Sun 11am - 6pm

Gallery Primo Alonso
395-397 Hackney Road
London E2 8PP
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When presenting an exhibition on the theme of faith, as an artist one has to consider what one believes in. Do we believe in the power of the representations of faith in art that have held us enthralled over centuries or is it the power of faith itself that draws an artist to make work? The 10 artists included in this exhibition all question the notions of faith and explore the theme in very different ways.

Some of the artists explore faith in terms of its relevance to the History of Art. Their work may reference a particular religious painting, symbol or object. Thomas Helyar-Cardwell considers how in a society that is increasingly losing its faith, what do these arcane signifiers become when confused or forgotten. These objects gain a new role in his paintings and banners, transforming these symbols into fresh iconography. Similarly David Hancock subverts masterpieces of religious art to make comments upon contemporary society. By working within the tradition of painting he manipulates this loaded genre continuing the discourse on painting’s role within contemporary art.

Simon Burton’s paintings are drawn from the pomp and ceremony of war that suggest the idea of a religious crusade. These works draw parallels to past and present conflict and well as include signifiers drawn from art history. Burton depicts a bewildered landscape of ruin where the decimated aftermath of a confliction of abstraction and figuration is expressed through his multi-layered surface. Isabel Young‘s paintings seek to question the traditional hierarchy of the animal kingdom with man at the pinnacle. She re-works this classification through the tradition of icon painting, placing animals in the role of a deity. The use of iridescent paint transmits this ethos by referencing the precious materials used in icon painting, and subsequently notions of importance, power, and status.

Other artists have chosen to discuss what we believe in today. Matthew Burrows’ paintings explore what it means to believe, and in what context it is possible. He unpicks our expectation of science by developing a mythic view of evolution. Through this upended and regressive world Burrows highlights our assumptions that reason has the monopoly on truth and satirises the views of creationists. Edwin Aitken’s paintings attempt to uncover an essential meaning or truth. Through his work he seeks a ‘burden of proof’ that will inevitably validate his own personal faith in painting as a means to express ideas that have an ongoing relevance. In contrast Cathy Ward's installations centre on a childhood incident that contributed in her subsequent loss of faith. Her contribution will be revisiting her departure, both as a reconstruction, and reviewing its many manifestations in her work. For Dutton and Swindells the matter of faith offers the opportunity to make work out of a number of positions simultaneously whilst still believing in all of them. Their videos and wall drawings reference William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" by paying particular attention to the use of inversion and reversal to denote evil. This collaging of disparate elements generates new dialogues for making art.

Both Barry Thompson and Sarah Doyle consider the roles of contemporary icons and whether they supplant the religious deities of the past. As we desperately try to retain some kind of faith by attaching it to our own heroes, we build our own identity around these superstars who inspire us. The fervour with which we aspire to these role models could also be considered religious, as in Doyle’s work, where she focuses specifically on the phenomenon that is Prince.

Each artist has tackled this theme in a unique and original way and the exhibition hopes to highlight the diversity of current contemporary practise.

Suburbia

2008-02-25T15:26:00.007Z

The Foreign Press Association
11 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AJ
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Curated by Lee Campbell

Painting Performance Projection

MARCH 1ST 2008
Doors open at 18:00

ARTISTS:
Francesca Anfossi, Jenny Baines, Alex Baker, Rebecca Birch, Lee Campbell, Paul Carr, Alexander Costello, Sarah Doyle, Eccentric City Newspaper, Sharon Gal, Emma Holden, I*A*N*A*P*A, Jasper Joffe, Calum F. Kerr, Caroline De Lannoy, Ian Larson, Adrian Lee, Daniel Lehan, Carali McCall, Josie McCoy, Frog Morris, Peter Reiling, Mike Ryder, Sam Semple, Henrietta Simson, Sister Mercedes, Dora Wade, Greta Wade, Laura Wilson

Lee Campbell
leejjcampbell@yahoo.co.uk
Tel. 0797 437 6324

SUBURBIA SCHEDULE
18h Doors open

2D and Sculpture
FRANCESCA ANFOSSI, JENNY BAINES, LEE CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER COSTELLO, SARAH DOYLE, EMMA HOLDEN, JASPER JOFFE, IAN LARSON, JOSIE MCCOY, MIKE RYDER, DORA WADE, GRETA WADE

On Going Performances
DANIEL LEHAN with “OBITUARY” ADRIAN LEE with “TABLEAU VIVANT” LAURA WILSON with “CUT GRASS” CALUM F. KERR with “CURTAIN TWITCHERS OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CONVENTION" REBECCA BIRCH AND SHARON GAL with “THE BAG LADY OF SUBURBIA”

18:40h
THE ECCENTRIC CITY NEWSPAPER PRESS LAUNCH
WITH HARRY PALMER AND SIMON WALKER

19h Live Art Section Upstairs
PROJECTION BY HENRIETTA SIMSON
19:00 - 19:15 PETER REILING WITH “EXPRESSIONS OF A GASTRONOMIST, RELINQUISHING HIS KNIVES”
19:15 - 19:30 CAROLINE DE LANNOY WITH “DARK LIGHT”
19:30 - 19:45 FROG MORRIS WITH “CAN YOU TELL WHAT IT IS YET?”
19:45 - 20:00 ALEXANDER COSTELLO WITH "100 FT FALL INTO A BUCKET OF WATER”
20:00 - 20:15 ALEX BAKER
20:15 - 20:30 LEE CAMPBELL WUITH “WHAT I’LL DO (BIRDS OF A FEATHER)”

20:30 INTERMISSION
CARALI MCCALL with “GRAPHITE 8” (DURATION ONE HOUR)

21h Music section Upstairs
21:00 - 21:30 DANIEL SCROGGINS AKA I*A*N*A*P*A SINGS SONGS FROM HIS ALBUM "THE CURSE OF LETCHWORTH"
21:30 - 22:00 SAM SEMPLE
22:00 - 22:30 SISTER MERCEDES
23H END

Real Life

2008-02-21T20:25:00.005Z

still image from 'Soup' by Layla Curtis

REAL LIFE
curated by Sarah Sparkes

Layla Curtis, CMPW (Chris Coombes, John Moseley, Julian Wakeling, Harry Pye),
Gordon Beswick, Sarah Doyle, Lizzie Hughes, Romain Forquy, Axel Stockburger,
Heidi Stokes, Geraldine Swayne, Ricarda Vidal, Josie Wood,
Andrew Cooper and Sarah Sparkes (fabrication of Agit Train Cinema)

Private View 4-8pm Thursday 6th March
Exhibition continues March 7th – 15th 2008
Opening hours: Thursday - Friday 4-7, Saturday 1-6

Portman Gallery
Morpeth School
Portman Place
London E2 0PX
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(Tube: Bethnal Green)

Saturday Matinee - ‘The Stuff of Life’ artists’ film screening, curated by Ricarda Vidal,at 3pm on Sat 15th March
What is real? how can we be sure that this world is nothing more than an illusion, and that life is just a dream?
‘Real life’ is an exhibition in which artists use film and photography as a means to capture their own sensations
and experience of the external, whether analytical, intellectual or emotional, and allow us a transitory, illuminated
insight into the world from behind their eyes.

Dead Bodies and Cardboard

2008-01-29T16:08:00.000Z

February is the month of love. But at Elevator Gallery will putting on a show exploring the darker side of love, with the theme of Anti-Valentine.

9th - 23rd Febuary 2008
open: 12 - 5pm Thurs - Sun

artists:
Emily Clay, Kirsty Dixon, Sarah Doyle, Grant Foster, Antonio Gianasi, Hannah Jesmen, Laura-MayLewis, Matt Lippiatt, Kitty Moore, Erica Scourti, Patricia Shrigley, Emma Thatcher

Private view: Friday 8th Feb 6pm till late
A very special evening of performance and sonic exploration
featuring:
Le Couteu Jaune, Gumm takes Tooth, Bebug, Jon Purnell, DJ Whitenoise (WLM), The broken Biscuit Club

Elevator Gallery
Mother Studios
Queens Yard
White Post Lane
Hackney Wick
London E9 5EN
tel: 0772 419 5479
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3 minute walk from Hackney Wick Train Station
Buses: 26 30 235 388 N26

Blanc Noir

2007-10-08T17:56:00.002+01:00

Sarah Doyle, Sophie MacCorquodale, Cathy Lomax,
Stephen Davids, Lydia Maria Julien, Gary O'Connor

13 Oct - 18 Nov 2007
Private View Friday 12 Oct 6-9pm
gallery opening hours Fri - Sun 12-6pm

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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Blanc Noir was devised by artists Stephen Davids and Cathy Lomax to investigate the significant contribution that the Afro-Caribbean diaspora has made to contemporary British culture. It examines the way that in Britain this culture, rather than being seen as an exotic enclave of otherness is becoming intrinsically meshed within the mainstream.

Blanc Noir features a mixed group of artists who map this process in a counter-intuitive and highly personal way by both overturning and celebrating stereotypes from Sarah Doyle's MySpace girls with hiphop monikers to Cathy Lomax's Afro paintings to Gary O'Connor's Rock Against Racism inspired audio.

Background to Blanc Noir
Hackney in the East End of London is on the front line of an effusive multi-racial mix. It is here that you will find a fusion of cultural energy that is stemmed in a strong black identity born from its well-established black population. As far back as the 1700s the East End has had a tradition of black and white living in harmony, bound together by poverty and outsiderness. This still holds true in today's East End where you find both black and white school kids cherry picking phrases and points of style from black originating music, fashion and patois.

See more images from the Blanc Noir show here on Flickr

Faith

2007-10-03T00:23:00.000+01:00

Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax
22 September 2007 – 21 January 2008
PV: - Saturday 22 September 12-3pm

Edwin Aitken
Matthew Burrows
Simon Burton
Sarah Doyle
Steve Dutton/Steve Swindells
David Hancock
Thomas Helyar-Carwell
Cathy Ward
Isabel Young

When presenting an exhibition on the theme of faith, as an artist one has to consider what one believes in. Do we believe in the power of the representations of faith in art that have held us enthralled over centuries or is it the power of faith itself that draws an artist to make work? The 10 artists included in this exhibition all question the notions of faith and explore the theme in very different ways.

Some of the artists explore faith in terms of its relevance to the History of Art. Their work may reference a particular religious painting, symbol or object. Thomas Helyar-Cardwell considers how in a society that is increasingly losing its faith, what do these arcane signifiers become when confused or forgotten. These objects gain a new role in his paintings and banners, transforming these symbols into fresh iconography. Similarly David Hancock subverts masterpieces of religious art to make comments upon contemporary society. By working within the tradition of painting he manipulates this loaded genre continuing the discourse on painting’s role within contemporary art. Simon Burton’s paintings are drawn from the pomp and ceremony of war that suggest the idea of a religious crusade. These works draw parallels to past and present conflict and well as include signifiers drawn from art history. Burton depicts a bewildered landscape of ruin where the decimated aftermath of a confliction of abstraction and figuration is expressed through his multi-layered surface. Isabel Young‘s paintings seek to question the traditional hierarchy of the animal kingdom with man at the pinnacle. She re-works this classification through the tradition of icon painting, placing animals in the role of a deity. The use of iridescent paint transmits this ethos by referencing the precious materials used in icon painting, and subsequently notions of importance, power, and status.

Other artists have chosen to discuss what we believe in today. Matthew Burrows’ paintings explore what it means to believe, and in what context it is possible. He unpicks our expectation of science by developing a mythic view of evolution. Through this upended and regressive world Burrows highlights our assumptions that reason has the monopoly on truth and satirises the views of creationists. Edwin Aitken’s paintings attempt to uncover an essential meaning or truth. Through his work he seeks a ‘burden of proof’ that will inevitably validate his own personal faith in painting as a means to express ideas that have an ongoing relevance. In contrast Cathy Ward's installations centre on a childhood incident that contributed in her subsequent loss of faith. Her contribution will be revisiting her departure, both as a reconstruction, and reviewing its many manifestations in her work. For Dutton and Swindells the matter of faith offers the opportunity to make work out of a number of positions simultaneously whilst still believing in all of them. Their videos and wall drawings reference William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" by paying particular attention to the use of inversion and reversal to denote evil. This collaging of disparate elements generates new dialogues for making art. Sarah Doyle consider the roles of contemporary icons and whether they supplant the religious deities of the past. As we desperately try to retain some kind of faith by attaching it to our own heroes, we build our own identity around these superstars who inspire us. The fervour with which we aspire to these role models could also be considered religious, as in Doyle’s work, where she focuses specifically on the phenomenon that is Prince.

Each artist has tackled this theme in a unique and original way and the exhibition hopes to highlight the diversity of current contemporary practise.

O Dreamland

2007-08-20T20:23:00.005+01:00

Transition Gallery visits the Seaside this bank holiday weekend with O Dreamland

image: Hall Of Mirrors close up

See more images from O Dreamland here on Flickr

I Love Peckham Shop Windows

2007-08-04T11:47:00.001+01:00

30 artists 30 shops
Sarah Doyle is in the nail Shop 'LLC Nails' at 80 Peckham High Street

On display 6 - 12 August 2007
Guided Tours 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm; 11 - 12 August 2007
From Burger King, 52 Peckham High Street, London SE15 5QJ
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'I Love Peckham Shop Windows' is an exhibitions of 30 contemporary artists in Peckham, London SE15. This showcase of site-specific artwork includes emerging and established artists from across the UK and Europe. The artworks have been made in response to the shops and include installation, film performance and design to celebrate Peckham's once 'golden mile'.

I Love Peckham Shop Windows

You can take a look at my work from the Peckham Residency here

Additional events
August 8 - 6pm - Gash Book Launch - Bun House, 96 Peckham High St
August 8 - 8pm - Quiz - Prince Albert, 111 Bellenden Rd

I Love Peckham Shop Windows has been curated by Emily Druiff, Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London in partnership with Southwark Council as part of I Love Peckham

Driven

2007-06-30T15:59:00.000+01:00

An exhibition in which 32 artists make work about the automobile
curated by Sarah Sparkes

PRIVATE VIEW: Friday, 29 June, 2007, 6-9 pm
EXHIBITION CONTINUES: 30 June - 29 July
GALLERY OPEN: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 1-6 pm

Fieldgate Gallery
14 Fieldgate Street
E1 1ES
London
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Press Release:
Few things have had a greater impact on 20th century life and culture than the motor car. In a hundred years or so it has metamorphosed from exotic plaything of the rich to indispensable adjunct to life in all developed societies. Freedom machine, sex symbol, design and status icon, offensive weapon, agent of pollution, devourer of the earth’s resources– it is all of these and more. From the romance of James Dean, Princess Diana, Jackson Pollock, the list goes on ...beautiful machines on the edge of death, to the weekly visit to the supermarket, the car is omnipotent.

‘The more you drive, the less intelligent you are’ states one of the characters in Alex Cox’s cult movie, Repo Man. Driving being seen here as a mindless act in which any intellect is lost when operating an unthinking, unfeeling machine. Maybe, this is the view many of us have from the outside, as a potential ‘road-kill’ victim. However, from the inside as passenger or driver we can become transported into a realm of freedom, the car becoming a vehicle for our aspirations. We can lose our selves inside what Ballard referred to as ‘a huge metallised dream.’ As such, cars become metaphors for otherness, for escape, for our own private space, for the way we imprint our fantasies on life. ‘Like all epochal icons, the car does not mean one thing, but many things. In that sense, it is an ‘empty sign’. It is a vacuum. We fill it with meaning’ - as Allen Samuels states in 'Autopia'

My most vivid early memories are of being driven, lying on my back in the car seeing a blur of trees, buildings, sky, a non-place in which to drift and dream. Later as a young teenager I would goad my father to drive faster and faster, loving the adrenaline rush that the car’s speed induced. That thrill of compressing time and space as a vector of speed became a repository of theory for the likes of Baudrillard and Virillo.Out of this process it is not surprising the car is fetishised, and it is not difficult to see why artists love cars. They are sculptural objects. A drive
in a car takes us on a visual journey, quite literally altering our perspective on life. The form they describe. The noise they make. The marks they leave. The car can evoke both nostalgia and the future.

Despite living in an age when the car has become demonised as polluter of the planet, I have to confess a love of driving - it is our dirty secret, as in the 21st Century it becomes a forbidden pleasure - gridlock permitting. With that in mind, ‘Driven’ is a group show that concentrates on the psychological hit that cars can deliver. Through the way they transport us into imagined worlds this exhibition aims to address something of this complex relationship.

The Driven artists are:

Sarah Baker, Helen Barff, Paul Caton, Ami Clarke, Leigh Clarke, Cedric Christie, Andrew Cross, Mikey Cuddihy, Robert Currie, Sarah Doyle, James R Ford, Adrian Galpin, Nigel Grimmer, Alexis Harding, David Hopkinson, Marq Kearey, John Kindness, Tim Knowles, David Leapman, Jennifer Merrell, Lee Maelzer, Dan McDermott, Leila Miller, Jessica Potter, Benedict Radcliffe, DJ Roberts, Amy Robins, Colin Smith, Sarah Sparkes, Axel Stockburger, Heidi Stokes, Ben Woodeson

SPECIAL EVENTS:

-- 'First Thursdays' - the gallery will be open on Thursday, 5 July, 6 - 9 pm, and Mikey Cuddihy will read her new story 'Dinner at the Drive In Movies' at 7.30 pm

-- 'Driven by Cars' - Friday, 27 July, 6 - 9 pm. Artist film night and talk, curated by Ricarda Vidal

The Nexus Treatment

2007-05-21T20:17:00.000+01:00

June 1st - July 15th 2007
Open Evening 8th 6:30 - 8:30

Space Station Sixty-Five
65 North Cross Road
London
SE22 9ET
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Press Release:
The Nexus Treatment
A Space Station Sixty-Five Window Project

Diamonds are forever ...
Seen through these St. Laurent glasses
And I’ve realized that I’ve arrived...
Kanye West, from Late Registration

In the crystalline animated world of Sarah Doyle “The Nexus Treatment” whirls and sparkles forever and ever. Counter intuitively utilising a hand made methodology,and consciously eschewing technological processes Doyle has crafted a Victorianesque hall of mirrors, with images taken from popular culture.

In the often rarefied realm of pedantic high art Doyle’s constituency is a revolutionary one She passionately and precisely studies and reveals the complex codes of young teenagers. Trawling through outdated hip hop videos, talking to and working with her younger siblings she identifies the “watch me now” shapes and movements which signify a universal need to belong, to be part of a group to fit in and to show off.

Doyle’s appropriation of this world, however, is no cheap holiday, there is an immersion and identification with it which goes back to her own experience of arriving in England as a teenager having been brought up in Africa. Unaware of the prevailing popular culture signifiers, references to TV shows, and imperceptible shifts in style she found herself to be “uncool” an outsider.

Her work meshes this yearning to belong, with a magical kaleidescopia of desire. The looped hand drawn images revealed in the facets of the spinning jeweled mirrors, when cut from their original meaning, take on a hypnotic quality. Like tarnished ballerinas on the top of a music box, Doyle’s tough girls dance for eternity in their strangely compelling cabinet of curiosities.

The Nexus Treatment is based on the title of a salon sign Doyle found near her home in South London. When googled, Doyle was amazed to find that it was revealed to be “an organization that designs and operates treatment programs for a wide range of child and adolescent problems” and it was also “a conditioning treatment used on Afro hair to make it more silky and straight like Caucasian hair” Both meanings strangely reverberated with the artist’s work. “I really liked the name” says Doyle “ it sounded futuristic and with the nexus meaning the center of focus it fitted with the work I had in mind”

Mixing futuristic elements and contemporary cultural references with clunky hobbyesue machinery, The Nexus Treatment signposts not only novel methods of art production but also introduces new places from where that work can be made.
Alex Michon

Sarah Doyle’s previous work has used other forms of dead media such as using records to create drawing tools. She is currently studying the phenomena of “Ragdoll Jewellery” a type of expensive jewellery worn by people who are not from wealthy backgrounds.
A graduate of Central St Martins, Doyle has shown internationally in Japan and recently at the Michael Jackson gallery in Germany. Her recent animation work was shown at the Whitechapel gallery as part of the Late Nights Programmed/Penned in the Margins. She was part of Splashdown for Space Station Sixty-Five during the Whitstable Biennale 2006 and will be undertaking a commission for Space Station Sixty-Five during 2008.
Sarah Doyle lives and works in London.

Alex Michon is an artist and writer. She is director of Transition Gallery. She writes for Garageland, and is the editor of Arty and Critical Friend. She is currently writing a 'rockabilly stitch-up' about her time working with Bernard Rhodes and The Clash.

Whitechapel Late Nights

2007-05-01T22:21:00.003+01:00

MAY 3RD at THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, E1 www.whitechapel.org

Special Writing/Visual Arts Show from 7pm. FREE.
Artist Sarah Doyle has collaborated with writer Amy Prior to create a innovative, unique piece where spoken words from their new book and sound meet with new hand-drawn animation: Bradferjerlina. New Tzadik signing Pamelia Kurstin provides an original soundtrack using the theremin (Commission for Whitechapel Late Nights Programme/Penned in the Margins)

*'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' is a new limited edition book that combines a short story by Amy Prior with original artwork by Sarah Doyle. The book is a creative transformation of the story's trashy inspiration: the tabloid press and bad Hollywood blockbuster movies. Their work is especially inspired by extensive, conflicting but supposedly 'true-life' articles about the private lives of several well-known Hollywood actors - and also (interchangeably) by some of the similar fictional characters they play in Hollywood film. For a year Amy and Sarah gathered more than a hundred celebrity magazines, hung out in chain video stores and multiplex cinemas they never normally visited, scanned obsessive film fan sites online. Sarah made drawings; Amy worked with some of these - and also magazine photos, movie stills and dialogue, small 'true life' details from articles, quotes from interviews - to help her imagine a fictional story. The book is the result: a glamorous 'object d'art' that takes celebrity onto a new level.

Nog Gallery Animations

2007-04-24T00:57:00.000+01:00

I have an animation (featuring this guy above) playing at this show on Thursday 26th April:

VERY SPECIAL SHOW ON THURSDAY!

Get Advance Tickets, be there early...will be busy!

THURSDAY APRIL 26TH at NOG GALLERY, 182 Brick Lane, E1

Text-based UPSET THE RHYTHM (www.upsettherhythm.co.uk) show from 8pm
ADVANCE TICKETS from www.wegottickets.com (£3)

BARR
AMY PRIOR
PAMELIA KURSTIN
JO ROBERTSON
DJ FRANCES MAY MORGAN

BARR
BARR is the project of LA's wandering pop-dynamo Brendan Fowler, in which he half-sings over half-tunes, creating a set of confessional songs that challenge the listener's preconceptions of truly inventive music. Brendan's second full length 'Summary' is out now on Upset The Rhythm and is his darkest and most complex yet. Holding impassioned and articulate dialogues over deceptively simple, yet emotionally disarming melodies, formed from a sparse arrangement of bass, drums, piano and sometimes xylophone, he produces candid and exploratory songs about love, absence, realisation and personal politics. Returning to the UK for the third time, Brendan has dispensed with his iPod and will instead be backed by a full live band, featuring Ethan Swan and Corey Dieckman on piano and bass, and Kevin Shea (of Storm & Stress and Talibam!) on drums.
www.barrbarr.com | www.myspace.com/barrbarr

AMY PRIOR
London-based Amy Prior writes stories that appear on both sides of the Atlantic, often in books and sometimes galleries, though she was first published in music fanzines. Her fiction has appeared alongside pieces by other writers who also cross borders into music and visual arts, showing with work by writer/musician Sara Jaffe (ex-Erase Erata) and visual arts-linked Trinie Dalton from LA on a recent U.S. tour. For this text-based event Amy will use two of her new fictional pieces in the galleries. '(The Story), Morning Glory' is written in response to cover version of a Daniel Johnston song and recently appeared as a dazzlingly visual record insert for a 7" single (designed by Kate Moross). 'I Can‚t Believe How Great I Feel' is her new book, with drawings by artist Sarah Doyle, that creatively transforms trashy tabloids and bad Hollywood movies. The result: two innovative gallery pieces where words meet music, projected animation and some performance. New Tzadik signing Pamelia Kurstin provides an original soundtrack using the theremin, while new Textile Records-signing and painter Jo Robertson plays a short solo set in the gallery.
Additional soundtracking by Joe Zeitlin.
Frances May Morgan (Plan B Magazine) plays records.
Amy Prior

SOUND:
Jo Robertson
Pamelia Kurstin
Joe Zeitlin

VISUAL:
Sarah Doyle
Kate Moross

Sobriquets

2007-02-27T21:11:00.000Z

Some of the Sobriquets girls will be in the show at Micheal Jackson's Gallery in Germany you can also make friends with them here...

Lange Gasse 28, Augsburg, Germany.

"Feel Good Feel Bad Boys And Girls" will have it's private view on 30th March 2007.

Lil Souljah

Lady Diamond

Thug Angel

Lil Ruthless

Queen Bossy

Ms Divalicious

Princess Ice

Lil Lady Spectacular

Lil Ruthless

Feel Good Feel Bad Boys And Girls

2007-02-17T00:20:00.000Z

“FEEL GOOD FEEL BAD BOYS AND GIRLS”

"Feel Good Feel Bad Boys And Girls" will have it's private view on 30th March 2007.
Curated by Michael Jackson
Michael Jackon is above saying hello in front of his painting "paradise" from a recent show called "Light Sentence"

Lange Gasse 28, Augsburg, Germany.
Private View: 30th March 18:30 till late
30th March - 14th April 2007
Opening times: Fri, Sat und Sun 12:00 – 18:00

James Robert Ford, Daisy Clarke, Stella Vine, Sarah Doyle, Rebecca Gould, Juergen Brugger, Angelika Brehm, Nicole Tschampel

Press Release

Childhood, disturbed, random, belief, power (Daisy Clarke)

Faith, quotidian accumulations, magic, ghosts and cycles (Nicole Tschampel)

MY FARTS SMELL LIKE DEATH (James Robert Ford)

Childlike, provocative, romantic, autobiographical, desire (Stella Vine)

Sobriquets, Identity, Peer pressure, Codes, Attitude (Sarah Doyle)

Candy Floss, punch and judy, popular culture, low budget production
and the silent movie (Rebecca Gould)

Farbe, Natur, Fantasie, Träume, Freude (Angelica Brehm)

LENI, LENI, LENI, LENI, LENI. (Juergen Brugger)

I Can't Believe How Great I Feel Update

2007-02-16T10:24:00.000Z

Heres some more information about the book I Can't Believe How Great I Feel with a list of forthcoming events for the book.

A new book by writer Amy Prior with drawings by artist Sarah Doyle in a very special numbered edition of 500
Published by JUNCTURE in March 2007 (ISBN 978-0-9554957-0-0)
The book is designed in collaboration with design collective Åbäke
Distribution in the U.K., U.S., Europe and Japan via selected independent and gallery bookstores

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'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' is a new beautiful limited edition book that combines a short story by Amy Prior with original artwork by Sarah Doyle. The book is an artistic transformation of the story's trashy inspiration: the tabloid press and bad Hollywood blockbuster movies.

Their work is especially inspired by extensive, conflicting but supposedly 'true-life' articles about the private lives of several well-known Hollywood actors - and also (interchangeably) by some of the similar fictional characters they play in Hollywood film.

For a year Amy and Sarah gathered more than a hundred celebrity magazines, hung out in chain video stores and multiplex cinemas they never normally visited, scanned obsessive film fan sites online. Sarah made drawings; Amy worked with some of these - and also magazine photos, movie stills and dialogue, small 'true life' details from articles, quotes from interviews - to help her imagine a fictional story.

This book is the result: a glamorous 'object d'art' that takes celebrity onto a new level.

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LONDON EVENTS FOR THIS BOOK:

JANUARY 7TH at CURZON SOHO
(Preview: Short documentary about the book - including music by DJ /Rupture. Showing as part of week-long film festival at the Curzon Soho/I.C.A. - www.shortfilms.org.uk
Film programme screens 1.30-4pm, then readings from the book as part of the festival 'Afternoon of Performance and Music' from 4-6pm)
APRIL 21ST at THE SMALL PRESS FAIR
(Old Castle St, E1)
MAY 3RD at THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
(Special Writing/Visual Arts Show)
JUNE at THE SPITZ
(Commission for The Festival of Word)
NOVEMBER at THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (ICA)

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BOOK NOW ON SALE IN LONDON AT:
ICA, The Mall, SW1
Artwords, 65a Rivington St, EC2
Bookart Bookshop, 17 Pitfield St, N1
The Grand OFR, Truman Brewery, E1
Nog Gallery, 182 Brick Lane E1

On sale at selected gallery bookshops and independent bookstores in North America, Europe and Japan from April 07.

or you can buy the book online now by clicking here:

Critical Friend 6

2007-02-01T17:19:00.000Z

My work and the show Celebrated Sobriquets is reviewed by Alex Michon in the current issue of the Critical Friend

Critical Friend is a collection of reviews by artists.

Issue 6 (Winter 2007) also includes reviews of:

Andrea Buttner Tolzblock at Rachmaninoffs by Rachel Potts
Tintagel Residency by Jan Frith
Give me Shelter at Union by Caroline Higgs
Maria Marshall at F A Projects by Emily Candela
Gustavo Ciriaco & Andrea Sonnberger at Liverpool Biennial by Helen Kaplinsky
USA Today at The Royal Academy by Olly Beck & Mike Bartlett
Expo 2006 in Nottingham by Matt Roberts
Pat O'Connor at Ashwin Street by Cathy Lomax
Billy Childish at The Aquarium by Ronald Gunnar-Hoo
The Barcelona Art Scene by Olly Beck
Sarah Doyle's Celebrated Sobriquets at The Surgery by Alex Michon
The Turner Prize by Rachel Potts
Latitude at The Fieldgate Gallery by Didi Lin
Dynamic Entropy at Houldsworth by Charlie Potter
Extenuating Circumstances at Grey Area by Mike Bartlett
Richard Crow by Esther Planas
Annabel Dover's Oriole at Transition Gallery by Mike Bartlett

The Critical Friend 6 costs £1.50 and is available to buy at:
Transition Gallery - 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8
The ICA Bookshop - The Mall, London SW1
London Art - 132 Finchley Road, London NW3

And also online here:
Buy the Critical Friend 6 online

So Sad

2007-01-15T13:18:00.000Z

The So Sad show opened on Saturday Russell Herron has written about the private view in his blog

The theme of the exhibition is sadness, or being sad.

The show closes on the 27th Jan 2007

The image above is a still from my animation in the show "Opheliyah". I did manage to get it to play eventually, phew.

Here is Deborah Orr's review of the show in the Independent

The Guy Hilton Gallery
35 Fournier Street
E1
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Contributing are:
Mark McGowan, Brian Catling, Will Self, Sarah Doyle, Bob and Roberta Smith, Centre of Attention, Richard Dedomenici, JJ Charlesworth, The Fucks, Stella Vine, Sacha Craddock, Marcia Farqhuar, Andrew Hunt, Jessica Voorsanger and Harry Pye.

Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street, Shoreditch Station

I Can't Believe How Great I Feel

2006-12-21T15:23:00.000Z

NEW BOOK WITH ARTWORK

'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel'
Writing by Amy Prior
Drawings by Sarah Doyle

Preview Event: Sunday January 7 at
Curzon Soho
Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1
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Short documentary about the book - including music by DJ /Rupture - showing
as part of week-long film festival at the Curzon Soho/I.C.A.
www.shortfilms.org.uk
Film programme screens 1.30-4pm, then readings from the book (as part of the
festival 'Afternoon of Performance and Music') from 4-6pm

More gallery, festival and other events in London from March

Published by JUNCTURE in March 2007 (ISBN 978-0-9554957-0-0)
Distribution in the U.S. (SPD)/U.K. via independent and gallery bookstores;
worldwide online distribution

So Sad

2006-12-19T14:15:00.000Z

Exhibition opens on Saturday 13th January at 5pm 2007
and will run for one week

The theme of the exhibition is sadness, or being sad.

The Guy Hilton Gallery
35 Fournier Street
E1
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Contributing are:
Mark McGowan, Brian Catling, Will Self, Sarah Doyle, Bob and Roberta Smith, Centre of Attention, Richard Dedomenici, JJ Charlesworth, The Fucks, Stella Vine, Sacha Craddock, Marcia Farqhuar, Andrew Hunt, Jessica Voorsanger and Harry Pye.

Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street, Shoreditch Station

The Marmite Prize

2006-12-07T10:25:00.000Z

"The most important painting prize the world has ever seen. The Marmite Prize"

The prize will be judged by a distinguished panel of artists and curators
Mark McGowan (performance artist)
Harry Pye (artist and independent curator)
and Dallas Seitz (artist and director of 1,000,000mph project space)
The Marmite Prize is curated by Marcus Cope and Stephanie Moran.

Opening at The Residence on Thursday the 14th December 6 - 9pm.

The show runs from 15th - 17th December 06
Open: 10am - 6pm

Heres the address -
The Residence
168a Victoria Park Road
London
E9 7HD
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Nearest Tube: Mile End, Bethnal Green
Bus: 277, 388*
*only from Hackney Wick

For Peel

2006-11-20T18:56:00.000Z

I'm part of a John Peel Tribute show called "For Peel"

Exhibition opens on Thursday 23rd November 2006 7pm.

The show runs from 24th November - 23rd December 06
Open: Weds - Sun 1 - 6

All the artists involved have chosen one of the bands that did a session for the lovely John Peel to make a piece of work about, I chose Fuzzbox

Heres the address -
No More Grey Gallery
24 Redchurch St
London, E2 7DJ
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The show is sponsored by Red Stripe and curated by Harry Pye.
Artists featured in the show include; Pascale Bertier, Gordon Beswick, Phil Collins, Marcus Cope with David Smith, Kev Cummins, Anka Dabrowska, Peter Davies, Steve Double, Sarah Doyle, Martin Dukes, Jamie Dyson, Lee Edwards, Rachael Field, Jean-Paul Francisco, Peter Harris, Paul Hamilton, Thomas Hawes, David Hoyle, Dan Kennedy-Martin, Knox, Cressida Kocienski, Lady Lucy, Richard Lamy, William Leary, The Little Artists, Cathy Lomax, Bob London, Geoff Lucas, Kate Lyddon, Lee Maelzer, Max Mason, Hugh Mendes, Christina Miltreatse, Stephanie Moran, Kate McMorrine, John Moseley, John Mulligan, Liz Murray, Natasha Newton, Marcus Oliver, Parched Art, Klarita Pandolfi, Lucy Pawlak, Cornelia Poole, Francis Poole, Howard Read, Kes Richardson, William Riley, Jacquelyn Rixon, Adrian R. Shaw, Frank Sidebottom, Rowland Smith, Bob & Roberta Smith, Sarah Sparkes, Edward Todd, Barry Thompson, Sandra Turnbull, Jessica Voorsanger, Ed Ward, Julian Wakeling, Phil Wilson-Perkin.
Exhibition includes free fanzine with contributions from Arthur Smith, Ted Chippington, Andrew Collins among others, and a free exclusive CD with 12 brand new songs by artists including Mick Harvey, PJ Harvey, Lol Coxhill, Cornershop and more.

Celebrated Sobriquets aka Always Known As

2006-10-31T14:33:00.000Z

My solo show Celebrated Sobriquets aka Always Known As opens at The Surgery Gallery on the 10th November 6:30 - 9pm

The show runs from 11th November - 3rd December
Open: fri - sun 12-6
or by appointment

see some of the Celebrated Sobriquets here

Heres the address -

The Surgery Gallery
123 Evelina Road
Nunhead
London, SE15
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Rail: Nunhead, Queens Road, Peckham
Bus: 78, P12

Press Release:
The Surgery is very proud to be hosting Sarah Doyle's
'CELEBRATED SOBRIQUETS' aka 'ALWAYS KNOWN AS'

Sarah Doyle’s work explores the construction of identity through visual culture.
She has recently been using the nicknames and alter egos teenagers give themselves in her work. You will most likely have seen examples of such nicknames written on walls around most areas and as alias names on community sites such as Myspace.
Part of the show includes a Myspace portal created by Sarah Doyle where teenagers’ blurb from Myspace is regurgitated by young Victorian girls and showgirls.
The work examines playing at being adult, pretending, mimicking, and the desperation of trying to fit in.

The title: Celebrated Sobriquets is a play on the title of the Tennessee Williams drama “The Celebrated Soubrette,” a “slapstick tragedy” about an ageing showgirl whose eyes are plucked out by birds as she desperately attempts to relive her routines to impress her new acquaintances.

The original title “Soubrette” is changed to “Sobriquet” for the show to relate to the pseudonym theme. The nature of Tennessee Williams’s women was that they were tragic heroines. They would create a life they would rather inhabit, and then try to convince those around them that this lie was the truth. The girls from the show Celebrated Sobriquets also try to present a front they would like others to believe by pretending to be their aliases - “Lady Diamond” or “Thug Angel,” for example. The show at The Surgery incorporates these names made from discarded teenagers’ clothing. The clothing is painstakingly shaped into childlike bubble writing creating these often-bombastic nicknames. This work is shown alongside works on mirrors, the mirror pieces also include the nicknames along with portraits of young girls. The viewer looks into the mirror and can see their own face inside the face of the young girls. These mirror pieces incorporate nail varnish as paint. The young girls are all taken from pictures taken by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). His portfolio of photographic images mainly consisted of young girls and showgirls taken from music halls.

Forty Two

2006-10-31T13:50:00.000Z

I have an animation piece in "42" an exhibition at Three Colts Gallery which opens on the 3rd November 6:30 - 9:00pm

The show runs from 4th - 26th November
Open: fri - sun 12-6

42" - forty two artists make work about: "... the ultimate answer to the ultimate question".

Read more about my piece for the show on the 42 exhibition site

curated by Sarah Sparkes

artists:
Sarah Sparkes, Helen Barff, Marq Kearey, John Dale, Sarah Doyle, Ami Clarke, Lee Maelzer, Harry Pye, Robert Currie, Beverley Daniels, Stevie Deas, Angela Gill, Sean O’Connor, Jim Dunkley, Pamela McBain, Jennifer Baumeister, Rowland Smith, Leila Miller, Steve Rushton, Edward Ward, John McCleod, Diana Percival, Adrian Galpin, Jennifer Merrell, Pete Mountford, GeraldineSwayne, Fiona Campbell, Bob Read, DJ Roberts, Sarah Newson, David Leapman, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Libby Shearon, Simon Neville, Chloe Briggs, Julian Wakeling, John Workman, Matthew Stradling, Jennifer Talbot, Michael Sinclair, Stella Wilkins, Aileen Neal

Heres the address -

Three Colts Gallery
Unit 207 (2nd Floor)
Greenheath Business Centre
Three Colts Lane
Bethnal Green
London E2
United Kingdom
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Through The Large Glass

2006-09-28T13:18:00.000+01:00

Dare You Step "Through The Large Glass"

Through The Large Glass exhibition opens on the 6th October 6-9 at Three Colts Gallery

The show runs from 7th - 29th October
Open: fri - sun 12-6

'Through The Large Glass" is a group show from the makers of "The Circus Show"

A surreal extravaganza of make-believe, fantasy, invention and role play. The exhibition will featre pen night performances, paintings, installations, sculptures and more.

curated by Stephanie Moran and Marcus Cope

artists:
Jonathan Baldock, Alex Brown, Dana Brintz, Ruth Calland, Toby Clarkson, Marcus Cope, Sohrab Crews, The Crisps, Sarah Doyle, Martin Dukes, Tom Eastop, Jennifer Harding, Jackson Webb, Kate Lyddon, Stephanie Moran, Oscillatorial Binnage, Klarita Pandolfi, Elaine Parry, Harry Pye, Kes Richardson, Geoff Ridgen, dai Roberts, Mimei Thompson, Jonathan Waller, Chris Weaver, Dan Wilson

Heres the address -

Three Colts Gallery
Unit 207 (2nd Floor)
Greenheath Business Centre
Three Colts Lane
Bethnal Green
London E2
United Kingdom
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Blink

2006-08-01T11:23:00.000+01:00

Summer Screening Events
July & August 2006

Event 2: Thurs 3 Aug, 7pm

Screening Event 2: Thurs 3 August, 7pm
Exhibition: 4-6 August, 12-6pm

Participating artists: Alfie Leahy, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Bianca Edmonds, Cecilia Lundqvist, Christopher Stevens, Helen Fletcher, Laurie Hill, Matt Allan, Miho Matsuda, Roderick Mills & Rosie Pedlow, Sarah Doyle. Blink is the first of a series of open submission projects set to take place annually at Gasworks. The project has been led by a desire to see new work and to do so through a more transparent and democratic method of research. Gasworks is committed to working with emerging artists and such a project enables us to connect with artists directly at a grassroots level.

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
UK T:+44 (0)20 7582 6848
F:+44 (0)20 7582 0159
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Tube: Vauxhall/Oval
Bus: 2, 36, 88, 133, 185, 436

Gasworks is open
Wednesday - Sunday
12-6pm

This Spring Gasworks opened the floodgates inviting submissions from artists working with animation across the UK. The deluge of responses has revealed some highly original works from practitioners across the country many of whom were previously unknown to Gasworks. These three events will explore the idea of animation and demonstrate the scope of work being produced within that field. For practitioners they may also provide invaluable exposure to a new and wider audience. The selectors: Haluk Akakçe, who has exhibited widely at venues such as PS1, New York; Istanbul Biennial; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and is currently in The British Art Show 6.
Nav Haq, curator at Gasworks.
Saskia Olde Wolbers, winner of Beck’s Futures 2004 and also currently participating in The British Art Show 6.

Visit Gasworks website for more details

For further information please contact
Sangeeta Sathe
press@gasworks.org.uk
Tel: 020 7582 6848
Fax: 020 7582 0159

Monstrous Tales

2006-07-16T23:17:00.000+01:00

The Monstrous Tales show at APT Gallery opens in August

MONSTROUS TALES
11 - 20 Aug 2006
Thursday-Sunday, 1-6pm
Private view Thursday 10th August 6 - 8pm

Artists:
Oreet Ashery, Yason Banal, Teodora Buba, Gary Colclough, Christina Corfield, Sarah Doyle, Joe Duggan, Lisa Finnegan-Smith, Angela Cockayne, Craig Fisher, Nick Hornby, Gabrielle O'Connor, Anita Mudaliar.

‘Monstrous Tales’ brings together an exciting mix of artists who employ humour, absurdity and spectacle to investigate and portray the monstrous, the bizarre, and the shocking. Through the use of satirical humour Monstrous Tales will question, reveal and expose the monsters that we have become accustomed to within the media, film, and the everyday, allowing the viewer to confront the unfamiliar within the familiar. These monsters are not only the hairy, drooling, sharp teethed creatures that live under children’s beds, they are stars of reality TV, plastic surgery freaks, countries who rage war, stories in children’s books, or celebrities whose life’s are lived out through trashy magazines. On the evening of the private view Nick Hornby will be performing a sound piece that involves brining a car in to the gallery space, Oreet Ashery and Stephen Wilson will perform ‘Three Sons’.

APT Gallery
Harold Works
6 Creekside
SE8 4SA
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Deptford (via London Bridge / Deptford Bridge DLR)

020 8694 8344
www.aptstudios.org
aptlondon@btconnect.com

www.monstrous-tales.co.uk
New Exhibitions listing

Kitson Kaleidoscope

2006-06-26T11:44:00.000+01:00

I will doing a performance for the Kitson Kaleidoscope project, part of The Camberwell Arts Festival

A two hour collaborative performance beamed live via webcast from James Ford's bedroom in Camberwell, London. Utilising Yahoo messenger I.D. kitsonkaleidoscope for live feed and chat.

Wednesday 28th June 2006, 6-8pm
Kitson Road
Camberwell
London SE5 7LF
Organised by Mark McGowan and James R Ford

A vicarious mash of artists, carrying on from where Jeanie Cam (first ever live webcam performance) left off. All participants will be performing within the small, pixelated televisual field of the webcam, in the site-specific physical space of a domestic bedroom (these factors could be considered restrictive or liberating).
Contact kitson@jamesrobertford.com to request login details for a Yahoo email account which can then be used to view the live performance.

Part of The Camberwell Arts Festival, 24th June - 2nd July 2006

Artists:
Brian Catling
C. Cred
Richard Dedominici
Sarah Doyle
James R Ford
Russell Herron
Katsunobu
Calum F Kerr
Sally O'Reilly
Simon Ould
Olivia Jane Ransley
Paula Roush
Carina Thorén and John Chantler

Whitstable Splashdown

2006-05-30T14:24:00.000+01:00

Saturday the 3rd June and the 17th June I will be in Whitstable for the Splashdown, a programme of events organised by Space Station 65, coinciding with the Whitstable Biennale

I have been invited to do my Popstar Makeovers for the event. So be prepared for many Siouxsie Sioux, David Bowies and other popstars with big makeup to have lookalikes prepared for a day out by the sea.

If you would like to come to the Splashdown, here is the address -

Whitstable Tennis Courts
West Beach
Coastguards Alley
Island Wall
Whitstable
Kent CT5
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Splashdown, Whitstable dates and artists taking part:

03/06/2006 - Sarah Doyle, Jon Hicks, Daniel Lehan, Kieron Dennis, Justine Pearsall
17/06/2006 - Sarah Doyle, Daniel Lehan, Marcia Farquhar, Kieron Dennis, Justine Pearsall

Obsolete Technology

2006-05-30T02:14:00.000+01:00

I have a piece of my knitted cassette work in the Obsolete Technology at Here Gallery in Bristol

3rd - 25th June 2006
open Tues - Sat 12:30 - 6:30pm

"Obsolete Technology" group show in conjunction with the Venn Festival and the Cube Cinema

Here Gallery
108 Stokes Croft
Bristol
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Paperworld Show

2006-05-22T10:54:00.000+01:00

Paperworld Show
Originally uploaded by purestar.

The Paperworld show at Transition Gallery is well worth a visit. I'm not just saying that cause I have work in it. Its a lovely show, so do pop into
Paperworld at Transition Gallery for a look.

Have a look at some pics of the show here

Paperworld

2006-05-05T01:29:00.001+01:00

I will be showing in the Paperworld at Transition Gallery later this month.

20 May - 18 June 2006 - Fri-Mon 12-6pm

Private View: Friday 19 May 6.30–9.00pm

Please note the gallery will be closed on Monday 29 May

Transition has changed address so make sure you come to the new one, here it is -

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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Here is the Press Release for the show:

Paper is a vital element in the armoury of the artist fantasist. It can be twisted and folded, glued, stapled, printed, cut out, laminated and fashioned into a whole imaginary world, a facsimile of the real world.

Paperworld draws on ideas of consumerism, authenticity, value, desire and the imagination to present an array of objects made by artists from paper and card. Displayed in a faux shop setting these cut, pasted and scrawled artefacts sit defiantly in their luxxy glass cases in the Paperworld emporium. The artefacts on display range from beautifully fashioned diamond drawings over worked on exercise book pages to cardboard cameras to lovingly photocopied and stapled fanzines.

Roy Brown plants paper weeds made from recycled junk mail into the gallery’s nooks and crannies

Rachel Cattle presents the homemade horror of ‘The Cardboard Films’ (made with Steve Richards) alongside fairytale objects made of packing tape

Sarah Doyle’s wannabe jewellery is copied from a catalogue then laminated to last.

Sian Emmison’s eerie advertising is sourced from a myriad media sources, a hand drawn simulacrum of the real thing.

Leo Fitzmaurice reconfigures boxes, making them into Modernist sculptures and cigarette packet football shirts.

Arabella Lee’s zoetrope features a series of galloping paper horses

Peter Liversidge lovingly fashions cardboard copies of retro technology accompanied by paintings of corporate logos

Tim Machin cuts up newspaper landscapes to make delicate stand up sculptures

Nichola Ollis has detourned the Argos Catalogue creating a series of pages with nothing to buy.

Kavel Rafferty's shoebox shop recalls a childhood of Blue Peter making

Rosemary Shirley contributes Modernist constructions formed from fusions between jewellery and sci-fi alongside her delicate drawings of jewels.

Harry Ward contributes a papier mache recreation of Princess Diana’s funeral procession.

Publications by
Transition Editions (Arty, The Critical Friend, Garageland), Kathryn Cooper (The Solutions 3) Rosemary Shirley (Leisure Centre), Pin Up, Sarah Doyle (‘Helping You Find The Right Jewellery’ and ‘Lyrical Cru Activity Book’), Savage Mesiah, Harry Pye, Sam Dargan (Neverlutionary), Rachel Cattle (‘Don’t Stray From the Path’), Tangent, High Horse, Delaine Le Bas, Jimmy Medway ('Graff tales - The Urban Adventures of Smudge'), Sian Emmison (Surrey Girl with Sparkle), Interlude

See more images from Paperworld here on Flickr

The Look Book

2006-05-05T01:13:00.000+01:00

Alex Michon is in a great new book written by Paul Gorman called The Look. It really is a great read, the chapter on Alex tells her story of creating clothes for The Clash.
Buy it here

Alex also puts together the great magazine "The Critical Friend", which I have couple of reviews in for issue four.
You can get your hands on a copy of that as well here

London Zine Symposium Exhibition

2006-04-20T01:27:00.000+01:00

This year's London Zine Symposium exhibition is to focus on artwork and illustration that has been used within fanzines to illuminate and decorate interviews, articles and reviews.

I have some of my own drawings in the exhibition which were featured in Arty Magazine's Children issue. My article is all about Scoubiedous which were a popular playground craze during 2005.

So if you fancy a look at my Scoubiedou piece and a browse/shop for some other great zines pop along to Russell Square on Saturday 22nd

22nd April
12pm - 6pm
London Zine Symposium 2006
21 Russell Square
London

Peter Cushing's Makeup in Whitstable

2006-04-17T02:43:00.000+01:00

We visited Whitstable this Easter where Space Station 65 Gallery will be staging an art event alongside the Whitstable Biennale called "Splashdown". I will be doing my art piece "Popstar Makeovers" as part of this event. So if you fancy coming to Whistable on June the 3rd or 17th you might be lucky enough to get made over to look like a popstar of your choice...

While we were in Whitstable we visited the local museum where there is a lovely tribute to Peter Cushing who used to live there. This is a photo of his makeup from the museum. Quite fitting really as my art piece will involve a lot of makeup too.

Eel Fundraiser

2006-04-04T12:56:00.000+01:00

I will be selling some zines and stuff at the Eel fundraiser this Sunday the 9th April at The Bethnal Green Working Mens Club

It opens at 7:30

Proceeds go towards the next issue of The Eel and the August Vyner street Festival.
It would be dandy to see you there.

Bethnal Green WorkingMens Club
40-42 Pollard Row
London, E2 6NB
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The Circus Show

2006-03-21T12:54:00.000Z

The Circus Show
Originally uploaded by purestar.

The work in nail varnish on etched mirror at the Circus Show

have a look at some images of the show here

Circus Show Review

2006-03-13T15:51:00.000Z

The Circus Show opening at Three Colts Gallery on Friday was fun and Russell Herron has written all about it on his blog...

He took some really nice pics on the night too

The Circus Show at Three Colts Gallery

2006-02-23T23:33:00.000Z

I'm part of the Circus Show exhibition which opens on the 10th March 6-9 at Three Colts Gallery

The show runs from 11th March - 2nd April
Open: fri - sun 12-6

'The Circus Show" is a group show inspired by Alexander Calder's Circus that celebrates the spectacle and the crowd, play and transformation.

organised by Stephanie Moran and Marcus Cope

Heres the address -

Three Colts Gallery
Unit 207 (2nd Floor)
Greenheath Business Centre
Three Colts Lane
Bethnal Green
London E2
United Kingdom
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have a look at some images of the show here

Here is the Press Release for the show:

Step up, Roll up, Dress up, Pucker up, Bottoms up…. Three Colts Gallery are proud to present their most daring show to date. ‘The Circus Show’ is a group show inspired by Alexander Calder’s Circus that celebrates the spectacle and the crowd, play and transformation. The show will feature opening night performances, installations, paintings, sculptures - and more! On the opening night the audience will be invited (among other things) to Throw Custard Pies at a Tired Old Clown, Beat up a Traffic Warden with sticks, and win prizes for assaulting masochistic paintings. If that’s not enough they can chuckle at the giant clown’s arse poking through the ceiling and enjoy the musical performances. All the action will be filmed and shown as part of the exhibition. On entering the space you will be offered a carnival mask, confronted by an Elephant Podium that you will be required to manoeuvre around and encounter a field mic designed for hunting interplanetary sounds of endangered or magical nature. You can explore the burnt out dwelling of the clown who has run away from the Circus, and avoid the gigantic squirty flower that he left behind. More voyeuristically there will be an installation documenting the transformative process of a sex change operation and a miniature ‘Backstage at the Circus’ tableaux. You will not be alone in this experience though, for the walls shall bear their own spectators, a cast of characters to include a painted obituary of Sam the Worlds Ugliest Dog, a photo of Tony Blair and a head made entirely from plasticine. Alexander Calder used the circus as a place of fun, joy, motion. It allowed him to push the boundaries of what art could be - through play. The Circus also represents a site of chaos and excess, of mutation and exchange in the spirit of Bakhtinian liberation, of the ‘carnivalesque’. The Circus Show will be an exhibition of the clownish, comedic and grotesque or absurd. It will display the acrobatic and transformative; there will be metamorphoses between human and machine, privileging the crowd over the individual. So come along, we’ll have a gay old time! Cast: Jonathan Allen, Louise Andersson-Gylden, Craig Andrews, George Barker & Patrick Gould, Pascale Berthier, Betty Borthwick, Nik Carrick, Ross Casswell, John Chantler & Carina Thorén, Toby Clarkson, Lucienne Cole, Emma Coleman, Marcus Cope, Peter Darkin, Robert Dennis, Peter Denman, Sarah Doyle, Martin Dukes, Oliver Dungey, Lloyd Durling, Louisa Durose, Jamie Dyson, Tom Eastop, Zavier Ellis, Georgina Hooper, Calum F. Kerr, Richard Lamy, Mark McGowan, Hugh Mendes, John Miers, Stephanie Moran, Natalie Moran, Liz Murray, Sean O’Connor, Simon Ould, Klarita Pandolfi, David Parry, Lucy Pawlak, Harry Pye, Nicola Razores, Joseph Richards, Kes Richardson, Dai Roberts, Shawn Ryan, Julian Wakeling, Jonathan Waller, Edward Ward, Phillip Wilson-Perkin.

Interlude Magazine Launch

2006-02-10T10:56:00.000Z

I Will be selling some of my books at the Interlude Magazine Issue 3 Launch event on the 25th Feb which starts at 7pm

Do RSVP by clicking here if you'd like to come along

The event will take place at:
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Rd
E14

Hope to see you there!

Get my drawings on your phone!

2006-01-30T17:02:00.000Z

a very Happy New Year of the Dog to you!

You can download some of my drawings onto your phone from the Start Mobile site now!

Download one now to make your phone super cool!

Paper Jewellery Is So Hot For 2006

2006-01-05T17:37:00.003Z

Not only has the lovely Sylvia from the fab NYC based group Kudu been sporting my drawn earrings recently.

But the earrings are also featured as a must buy item in the current issue of Disorder Magazine

Drawn earrings are the only way to adorn your earlobes in 2006!

Marmalade Supergroup

2006-01-03T19:26:00.000Z

Happy 2006! - heres my first news for the new year

I did the drawings for the "How to Build a Supergroup" interview with Paul Epworth in Marmalade Magazine

Paul Epworth writes and produces music for bands and musicians as diverse as the Sugababes, Babyshambles, The Streets, the Kills, Bloc Party, Tom Vek and Kano as well as playing with his own band Lomax. He was asked by the magazine to create his ultimate Frankenstein band and I was invited to draw them.

Its available now in good bookshops (the interview is on pages 58 and 59)

Shift Calendar 2005

2005-12-22T17:53:00.000Z

As its now December 2005 lets take the opportunity to admire the lovely Shift calendar for this year.

Oh yes - I'm December!

Snowcase#5 online

2005-12-22T17:16:00.000Z

Fold Gallery have put Snowcase#5 online

Have a rummage through their drawers...

My books are in one of them

Heres a nice review from Bypasszine about my book too

Sarah Doyle : Helping You Find The Right Jewellery
This neat-concept, solid artist's book comes in a seal-strip see-thru plastic bag and is accompanied by a wearable, drawn-and-then-laminated pair of large earrings mounted on a vivid green multi-pointed star card (there are different pairs available). Sarah's decorated the front cover with drawings of various hallmarks - a pair of scales, an anchor, a crown, a castle, a cat and more. Genuine teenagers selected their fave jewellery items from Argos and Index catalogues, then Sarah (whose work's been published in Arty) depicted their choices and hand-outline-lettered the descriptions, serial numbers and prices. In addition, she made single-page illustrations of some of the celebs responsible for popularising particular styles - we have Neneh Cherry with her dollar sign earrings, Marlene Dietrich, Roxanne Shante, Teena Marie, J-Lo and Ashanti. Many of these stars can be viewed again in a striking portrait-filled centrespread (I recognised Frida Kahlo and Sade - and there's an in-profile hair-scraped-back, bubblegum-blowing teen with big hoops through her lobes).
We see a crucifix; a couple of best friend pendant sets (the two of you wear half of a heart each, or one of two interlocking jigsaw pieces); a panther bangle; padlock bracelets; and - similar idea to the best friend pendant - a mum-and-daughter set.
Not only is Helping You Find The Right Jewellery, "the complete advice guide to getting clued up on how to wear the best teen jewellery", it's a fab and attractive document of the youth culture of a particular era - something over which to wax nostalgic in decades to come. I like how it works on two levels - both as a straightforward how-to and as something arty types will appreciate. One to go into the Women's Library 'zine archive for posterity.

Snowcase#5

2005-11-23T15:58:00.000Z

I've got some work in Snowcase#5 at Fold Gallery
So if your around Cumbria over Christmas do pop along to see the show...

Snowcase#5
Private View 25th November 7-30pm - 9-30pm - wine and mince pies for all!

The ever-popular exhibition of artists' multiples returns to Foldgallery this year, bigger, bolder and brasher than ever. 22 artists from across the UK, Europe and North America are featured in this selling exhibition of small, mass-produced work.

The centrepiece for this year's exhibition will be a giant installation of secondhand cupboards, draws and shelves. Visitors will be invited to open the cabinet to discover the treasures inside. It's a very hands-on experience that aims to make contemporary art that little bit less scary.

The works themselves are wide ranging in their styles, from fashion items made from old tape measures to delicate sculptural match books, limited edition artists books to model galleries to show off your own work. With prices ranging from £2 to £50, there's something for every pocket.

snowcase was started in 2001 as a way for artists to make a bit of extra pocket money for crimbo - they make a small work of art, make some more or churn them out by the dozen, and flog them really cheaply as stocking-fillers. Over the years fold has had nice cheap snowcases and a more expensive one for a bit of variety. To encourage people to engage with the exhibitions, and hopefully buy work, fold have been experimenting with the whole gallery experience. From little wooden boxes and metal cages, to vending machines, to try and make the show as interactive as possible.

Snowcase#5 features work by:
Samantha Allan, Helen Snell, Lesley Halliwell, Zara Picken, Jon Ford, Tanya Axford, Sally Barker, Emma Bolland, Glen Boulter, Sarah Doyle, John Hall, Erin Hensley, Este MacLeod, Brenda Oakes, Anne Redmond, Richeldis Messam, Christine Stringfellow, Steve Messam, Tinsel Edwards, Milly Frances, Victoria Burgher and Breeyn McCarney.

Snowcase#5 runs from 26th November - 23rd December 2005
Gallery open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm and at other times by appointment.
Foldgallery, Walton's Yard, Market Square, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4QT. (017683) 71561

A-Mart

2005-11-15T09:23:00.000Z

I'm selling my Jewellery books in this year's A-Mart

Heres a link to A-Mart info

and here is Mark Pawson's very nice review of my "Helping You Find The Right Jewellery" Book in Issue 24 of Variant Magazine

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Theres more incisive social observation in Sarah Doyle's book of illustrations; HELPING YOU FIND THE RIGHT JEWELLRY, which follows the journey of jewellry from the album sleeves of female hip-hop icons to the pages of the Argos catalogue and then onto the earlobes of teenage girls in Peckham. Prices and catalogue numbers are helpfully included to assist you in making those all important budget jewellry purchasing decisions. It's Elizabeth Duke, namechecked by Goldie Lookin' Chain that we're talking about here rather than Jacob The rap royalty Jeweller, as mentioned by Fifty Cent. Each copy of HELPING YOU FIND THE RIGHT JEWELLRY comes with a different pair of enormous plastic laminated earrings - mine are Victorian style bow creoles!
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Acid Drops and Sugar Candy

2005-11-07T18:14:00.000Z

I have new work in the Acid Drops and Sugar Candy curated by Cathy Lomax

The show runs from the 19 Nov – 18 Dec 2005 and will take place at both Transition and Foster Art gallery in east London

The show focuses on the best and worst of Christmas...

My own work will feature the best and worst christmas albums of all time - if you want to find out what they are I hope you can come along to the show!

The medium of my work inacse you are wondering for this show is nail varnish on mirror

Transition will be hosting the dark side of Christmas- Acid Drops
110a Lauriston Road London E9

Foster Art will be hosting the light side of Christmas - Sugar Candy
20 Rivington Street, London EC2

Night On Earth Booklet

2005-11-04T17:30:00.000Z

Heres my drawing alongside Andy White's story in the Night On Earth Booklet...

Go to see the whole exhibition here -
Oxford House's Oh Art Gallery
www.oxfordhouse.org.uk
The gallery will be open everyday throughout November. Monday to Friday 9am
till 10pm, Weekends 10am till 6pm. The show runs from the 3rd until the 27th
of November.

The full address is:
Oh! Art Gallery, Oxford House
Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG

A Night on Earth

2005-11-02T16:24:00.003Z

This is the first blog post - for information on Sarah Doyle's earlier exhibitions please visit her webpage www.purestarproducts.com

One of my drawings is in the Night On Earth exhibition curated by Harry Pye. Which starts on the 3rd Nov...

Here is the info -

This exhibition features work from London based artists who miss aspects of their country of origin. Amongst the homesick artists who‚ve lent work for this show are Eilidh Crumlis (Scotland), Lara Murray (Australia) and Klarita Pandolfi (Italy). Also in this show are paintings from artists who've been inspired by their travels in Europe such as Caroline List (Austria), Mark Jones (Holland) and Catherine Story (France). Photographers who've lent work they took on their travels include; Martin Parr (America), Lucy Soutter (India), Steve Double (Cambodia) and Cian Quayle (Poland).

This exhibition also features travel stories. In an attempt to go around the world in 80 anecdotes, last year Harry Pye began asking friends, friends of friends and a few heroes to pen a 1,000 word story about an interesting evening they had when they were far away from home. Gay Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has contributed a story about getting a hug and an apology from Iron Mike Tyson in Memphis. David Nobbs, who didn't get where he is today without creating Reggie Perrin, has written about enjoying a meal in Peru's most surreal hotel. Toby Young, author of "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People" has contributed a story about a disastrous best man speech he delivered in Washington. Other people who've written a story for this project include comedy writers/performers Morwenna Banks, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee, poets such as Paul Birtill and Atilla the Stockbroker and musicians including Chas Hodges, Ed Tenpole Tudor and Dave Gedge. Extracts from the stories will be displayed in easy to read poster form. Each story is being matched by a drawing donated by a different artist. Amongst those taking part are Sarah Doyle, Humphrey Ocean, Daisy de Villeneuve, Richard Wathen, Cathy Lomax and George Shaw.

The private view for Night on Earth is on November the 3rd from 7pm till 9pm at the Oh Art Gallery, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, East London. 5 Minutes from Bethnal Green Tube, opposite Tesco Metro. To make this special event even more special (and to make up for the lack of free drinks)... Artists Jasper Joffe and Lucy Pawlak will be painting LIVE at the private view. Jasper will be making work about his travels in Africa and Lucy will be making a picture that conveys a sense of White Russia. The last week of the exhibition's run coincides with two related variety events that are taking place in the Oxford House theatre. On Thursday the 24th of November house band Los Pistoleros, with help from six guest singers including Bonzo Dog legend Neil Innes, will attempt to go around the world
in song. Also on the 24th there will be comedy from Richard Herring and music from London's greatest living lyricist Chris Difford & his acoustic chums. On Friday the 25th of November local band Arthur Brick, poetry from Paul Birtill, Gallon Drunk's James Johnson, and Terry Edwards & The Scapegoats. Tickets for these shows are a piffling £6 each and profits are being donated to War Child.

Oxford House's Oh Art Gallery
www.oxfordhouse.org.uk
www.oxfordhouse.org.uk
The gallery will be open everyday throughout November. Monday to Friday 9am
till 10pm, Weekends 10am till 6pm. The show runs from the 3rd until the 27th
of November. The full address is:
Oh! Art Gallery,
Oxford House,
Derbyshire Street
E2 6HG