Sarah Sparkes - new website and show

Border Line

The Patriothall Gallery, 1D Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY

Exhibition runs from 25th March to 4th April 2007
12 till 6pm everyday, except Monday, and 12 till 9pm on Thursday

Preview 5.30 till 8pm, Saturday 24th March

The Patriothall Gallery is pleased to present the first of two shows featuring the work of ten contemporary artists. Five are based and work in London, the other five in Edinburgh. The exhibition explores discourses between the artists of the two metropolises, and examines identity and role, geographic and social geography, the political and the comic.

Sarah Sparkes is playing with the significance of elevating names to a position of dominance. Names and titles are spelt out on bunting flags that reign above the viewers head, raising the question have we entered a political arena, a royal jubilee, a sporting event or a village fete. The theme of borders is continued in Sparkes' three evocative paintings of shorelines.

>> view the artist's website at www.sarahsparkes.com
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