Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Chisenhale Gallery Workshop


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

Monday, September 14, 2009

Nunhead Arts Week


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!


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

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