Mind Your Head - Art Cabaret Healing Fires Purging Pyres

I have a small piece in the exhibition at Mind Your Head,  do come along and enjoy the healing fires at the Mind Your Head art cabaret!

Roll up, roll up it's the third MIND YOUR HEAD! Art Cabaret in the basement of the Golden Anchor in Nunhead on 
Saturday 10th November 7pm-10pm 

It's the season of Guido Fawkes and Halloween and for Healing Fires Purging Pyres there will be performances, music, poetry, a quiz, a ritual and an exhibition! Expect works on the consequence of fire, the tragedy, the positivity, the anger, the release. Come to Nunead and see…


Live

Eugene Coyne (Music) https://eugenecoyne.bandcamp.com/

Grassy Noel & APE with Mai Butoh (Poetry/Music/Dance)


Montague Armstrong presents HAMMOND HITS (Music)

Out now on Linear Obsessional — https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/hammond-hits


Stephen Micalef (Poetry)


FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! Healing Fires Purging Pyres Exhibition with Dylan Coates, Sarah Doyle, Helen Elwes, Tracey Francis, Frog Morris, Julie Pickard, Julia Maddison, Hugo Simms, Euphoria Synn and the performers above


There will be a Healing Fires Purging Pyres ritual and the chance to take part in Spruce Monkscyth’s Flaming Quiz Nite! Spruce will also be covering the Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s 'Fire' on its 50th Anniversary with accompaniment from Montague Armstrong. 
Your Hosts Spruce Monkscyth & M’lie-dee Caroline
Our regular haunt in the basement of The Golden Anchor is unfortunately not wheelchair/level accessible. Steep stairs down. We hope to do a Mind Your Head special in an accessible venue so watch this space!

The Golden Anchor, 
16 Evelina Road, Nunhead, 
London SE15 2DX 
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£5 Entry on the Door 

With your Hosts Caroline Gregory and Spruce Monkscyth (Calum F Kerr)

The Ghost Tide

I will be selling hand printed La Pascualita confetti editions in the Ghost shop for the Ghost Tide exhibition. This hand printed confetti is perfect to throw at any wedding! La Pascualita is a famous corpse bride shop mannequin in Mexico. She is rumoured to be the shop owner's daughter preserved after she died from a black widow bite just before her wedding day in 1930

I am also very pleased to have been invited to do a Papel Picado workshop for the closing of the exhibition on Saturday the 3rd Nov from 2- 5pm. The workshop is suitable for all ages and there are other performances and walks to also take part in on this day.  Please take a look at the Ghost Tide invite image above for more info

Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Thames-Side Studios, 
Harrington Way, Warspite Road, Woolwich, 
SE18 5NR
www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk

EXHIBITION DATES 20 October – 3 November 
GALLERY OPENING HOURS Thurs-Sun 12pm – 5pm

OPENING PARTY Friday 19 October 6pm - 8.30pm
Gen Doy performance 7.30pm

The Ghost Tide - coinciding with the festivals of Hallowe'en, All Souls and the Day of the Dead - takes as its starting point the perspective that ghosts exist as an idea, or as part of a belief system, across cultures, across national borders and throughout recorded history. Most languages contain words to describe the ghost, spirit or immaterial part of a deceased person. Often, these words - like the type of ghost they describe - have traversed borders and been assimilated across cultures.

The exhibition, situated next to the Thames Barrier in South-East London, evokes ghosts as a migratory tide, washed up along the shore of the Thames their historical baggage in tow. It also explores the presence of artists in this part of London, as a migratory tide of creative flotsam and jetsam which ebbs and flows as the city gentrifies and develops.

Featured works include sculpture, installation, film, sound, performance and wall based works. The exhibition will include installations and outdoor interventions, as well as public events.
The Ghost Tide features works by over 30 UK and international artists.

Artists featured: Andrea G Artz, Chris Boyd, Davies, Monaghan & Klein, Gen Doy, Sarah Doyle, Graham Dunning, Diane Eagles, Andrew Ekins, Charlie Fox, Katie Goodwin, Kio Griffith, Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F Kerr, Rob La Frenais, David Leapman, Liane Lang, Toby MacLennan, Laura Marker, Joanna McCormick, Josie McCoy, Jane Millar, Output Arts, Miroslav Pomichal, Brothers Quay, Anne Robinson, Edwin Rostron, Matt Rowe, Sarah Sparkes, Charlotte Squire, Sara Trillo, Yun Ting Tsai, Kate Walters, Patrick White, Heidi Wigmore, Neale Willis, Mary Yacoob, Neda Zarfsaz.

About the Curators: Monika Bobinska is the director of CANAL, which organizes exhibitions and art projects in a variety of settings. She is the founder of the North Devon Artist Residency. 
Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator. She leads the visual arts and creative research project GHost (initiated in 2008), curating an on-going programme of exhibitions, performances and inter-disciplinary seminars interrogating the idea of the ghost.

CURATORS' TALK Saturday 20 October 3pm – 4pm

DAY OF THE DEAD CLOSING PARTY Saturday 3 November 2pm – 7.30pm

Papel Picado Workshop 2pm – 5pm Make your own Day of the Dead 'cut - outs' with artist Sarah Doyle. Suitable for all ages, materials provided 
Performances and Artist Led Walk 2pm – 5pm Charlie Fox, Calum F Kerr, Joanna Mccormick, in and around the gallery
Day Of The Dead Feast 5pm – 6pm Refreshments served 
International Film Screening 6pm Screening of short films in the gallery: Chris Boyd, Liane Lang, Brothers Quay, Yun Ting Tsai and Neda Zarfsaz

Protocol

I am proud to be a part of the Protocol show which opens this Friday. I hope that you can come along and enjoy an exhibition in a subterranean car park in Cavendish Square!


FRIEZE ART WEEK 2018

PROTOCOL
In association with Geoff Leong Foundation
Curated by Vanya Balogh

Dear friends, artists and associates

You are cordially invited to the opening of the PROTOCOL, historic 6th consecutive exhibition at this unique circular car park space situated at Cavendish Square in the heart of West End. Curated & devised by artist Vanya Balogh and supported by Arts Patron Geoff Leong this year the show features over 100 international artists exhibiting selection of works in the media of painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance art. You are all welcome to join us for the three days of fun and games during the Frieze Art Weekend .

Private view
Friday 5th October 6 - 9pm
All welcome > Free Entry

Exhibition open daily
Saturday & Sunday 10am - 8pm

Locations
Q PARK Cavendish Square W1
Level - 3
Free Entry / WA

John Lewis Department Store W1
300 Oxford Street W1
Floors Ground > 2 >3 >4 >5
Free Entry / WA


Featuring artists

@ Q PARK >
Tomaz Kramberger / Andy Stewart / Rachel Walters
Keeler Tornero / Sarah Pager / Martin Sexton
Penelope Payne / Noel Grassy Macken / Robert Noah
Susana Lopez Fernandez / Joseph Sakoilsky
John Stephens / Hugo Von Hugo / Thomas J Ridley
Spizz Energi / Vanya Balogh / Dimtrios Oikonomou
Adam Zoltowski / Bob Lawson / Meriilis Rinne
Sam Smudger / JL Reed / Maslen & Mehra + Delete
Michael Croft / Jude Cowan Montague / Paul Sakoilsky
Desdemona Varon / Rachel Megawhat / Taline Temizian
Stacie McCormick / Marisa Polin / Meg Shirayama
Keith Ball / Julia Maddison / Rubbish Artist / Vanja Karas
Tiziana Mandolesi / Rebecca Feiner / Jim Roseveare
Maria Teresa Gavazzi / Danny Pockets / Djelal Ispanedi
Susan Supercharged / Alice Herrick / John Plowman
Fiona McAuliffe Artist Forte / Steve Pettengell / Lee Maelzer
Stella Whalley / Graham Tunnadine / James Bell / OtO
Anita Bryan / Drs Fitz & Fitzy / Theresa Caruana / Susan Haire
Mandee Gage / Melissa Alley / Tisna Westerhof / Michal Cole
Sebastian Sharples / Venetia Nevill / Richard Ducker
Chandra Selvam / Mikey B Georgeson / Nicola Hicks
William Angus - Hughes / Andrea Wright / Nerys Mathias
Nadia Ballan / Angela Wright / Jason Gibilaro / Kunbo Meng
Alexander Hinks / Christopher Clack / Toni Gallagher / Mia C
Jessica Bailey / Sooz Belnavis / Alina Gavrielatos / Paul Gildea
Deborah Bee Artist / Pascal Rousson / Loukas Morley
India Roper-Evans / Fiona Haines / Carol Wyss / Cathy Gale
Anna Fairchild / Sian Kate-Mooney / William Alexander
Julian Firth / Martha Parsey / Jon Baker / Tommy Seaward
Chris Simpson / Cathy Gale / Ozgul Arslan / Ansell Cizic
Hedley Roberts / Richard Sharples / Hercules Fisherman
Cadi Froehlich / Susana Sanroman / Ben Hopper / Ibby Doherty
Toby Bricheno / Yukako Sakakura / Andrea Robinson / Mona K
Toby Morgan / Sarah Doyle / Teo Robinson / Clive Burton
Almuth Tebbenhoff / Roger Clarke / Paul Coombs / Dean Todd
Katya Kan / Mary T Spence / Antonio Cabrera / Ray Gange
Paul Tecklenberg / Guy Haddon-Grant / Jonathan Slaughter
Ian Wolter / Jonny Tanna / Phoenix Blu - Coyle / Anna Niman
Nick Curtis / Aerial Sparks / Rosie Polet / Andrew STYS
Doug Haywood / Paul Tucker / Daleya Marohn / Steve Smith
Alexander Short / Paul Freud / Gina Southgate / Ann Grim
Jill Gibson / Mark Woods / Gzillion Artist / Rebecca Scott
Vera Jefferson & Cedric Christie <>

For further info & Press Release contact;
geoffleongfoundation@gmail.com
txt or call > 07587454613

Mind Your Head - Mass Sologamy

I have a small piece in the auction at Mind Your Head, my piece for the auction is called La Pascualita. It’s tiny hand printed confetti of the famous corpse bride shop mannequin in Mexico. Which is rumoured to be a bridal shop owner’s daughter preserved after she died from a black widow spider bite just before her wedding in 1930

Mind Your Head! is back in the basement at the Golden Anchor in on Saturday 7th July with Mass Sologamy! 
The Golden Anchor, 16 Evelina Road, Nunhead, London SE15 2DX 
£5 Entry on the Door (marriage vows guaranteed)
With your Hosts Caroline Gregory and Spruce Monkscyth (Calum F Kerr)

Live in your Head!
Marianne Hyatt (Bitchfork, Country Dirt) - Music
http://www.hyattesque.com

Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Mr Solo, Mikey Georgeson & The Civilised Scene) - Music
https://mikeygeorgeson.bandcamp.com

Fran Isherwood - Poetry
https://londonbooksandarts.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/fran-isherwood/

Melania the Stepback Wife (Birgitta Hosea) - Performance
http://www.birgittahosea.co.uk/

Also Mass Sologamy (Self-Marriage) Ceremony with the Amnionic Priestess, Spruce Monkscyth and a very special appearance of our very own Morning Glory, goddess of the soundwaves. 

Also bid in the Something, Old, New, Borrowed and Blue Auction with artworks by Sarah Doyle, Julia Maddison, Joanna McCormick, Frog Morris, Liam Scully, Jaqueline Utley, Julie Pickard, Sarah Sparkes and many of the performers above! Auctioneer extraordinaire Spruce Monkscyth!

Mass Sologamy is for those who feel Self-Marriage just might be crazy enough to work. Marry yourself kits are available to support you. Self-Marriage is a commitment to valuing and prioritising yourself within a culture that has neglected it, lied to it, insulted it, left it behind even commercialised and dehumanised it. What does Sologamy mean to you? Do you have to love yourself to marry yourself? Can you legally get married to yourself? or if you are not quite ready for the full commitment…Can you legally marry your dog? 

Invite image from The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)

Chutney Preserves - The Original Chutney Spa

For the Chutney Spa Sarah Doyle presents the sensory deprivation 'Isolation Helmet'. The treatment will consist of the subject wearing a large helmet when they emerge how will they have changed?
The helmet is inspired in part by the Isolator Helmet invented in 1925 by Hugo Gernsback, editor of Science and Invention magazine, one of the pioneers of science fiction. A futuristic spa treatment inspired by a future visionary!

Camberwell Arts Festival Launch: The Chutney Preserves Spa
16th June, 12.00 - 17.00
Camberwell Green, London, SE5
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Invoking the spirit of the ancient Camberwell Fair and its promise of “Rare doings in Camberwell”, The Chutney Preserves artist collective open a one day health and beauty spa on Camberwell Green.
Offering a humorous range of surreal and exclusive artist- created treatments to the public, the Chutney Preserves promise to deliver 'beyond alternative care' to the community.
Come along to watch, receive or purchase some life enhancing tonic.

Since 2005 The Chutney Preserves have worked with over 100 artists and participated in numerous festivals and events including: Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park, Camberwell Arts Festival on Camberwell Green and Supernormal Festival at Braziers Park Oxfordshire.

Chutney Preserves: Sarah Doyle and her Isolation Helmet; Rebecca Feiner and her Capitalist Cleanse; Tim Flitcroft purveyor of Dr Franchu’s Snake Oil; Phillip Raymond Goodman A.K.A. The Chaos Doctor; Amnionic Goddess Caroline Gregory; Rachael House founder of Feminists United Crone Kindred Society (F.U.C.K.S); Inspiral Londonbringing you Spinning Meditations; Miyuki Kasahara and a life extending Ancient Fish; Calum F Kerr and his Talking Medicine Bottles; Joanna McCormick with healing Kisses and Poems; Frog Morris seeker of the Lost Camber Well; Charlotte Squire and her Feel Good Give Away; Sarah Sparkes and her Fannies. 

Curated by Sarah Sparkes
For further details contact thesarahsparkes@gmail.com

Digital Graffiti

My work Opheliyah has been chosen as a finalist piece for the Digital Graffiti show which will illuminate the walls of Alys Beach from 18th - 20th May

You can watch the video of Opheliyah here on my Vimeo

More Information about the event is here  and here

Tickets for the event are available here

More info about the event:

Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach is a one-of-a-kind projection art festival where artists use the latest digital technologies to project their original works onto the iconic white walls of Alys Beach.

Sometimes referred to as “Photon Bombing,” “Guerilla Projection” or “Urban Projection,” underground artists around the globe have been using the latest design, animation and projection technologies for many years to cast dynamic images onto skyscrapers and other urban structures as a means of artistic expression. Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach is a festival geared towards bringing these artists together in one place to celebrate and showcase their unique talents.

Each year, the festival attracts digital artists, filmmakers, musicians, interactive designers, photographers, VJs, producers, celebrities, agency executives and fans of art, technology and architecture. Thousands of dollars in cash prizes are awarded to artists, with digital submissions being received from as far away as Israel, Austria, Canada, Germany, London, India, France, Italy and China.