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Lucy sparrow felt cornershop
Lucy Sparrow (born July 1986 is a contemporary artist originating from Bath, England. She works at the intersection of contemporary art and craft setting the agenda for textiles within the urban art scene. She works mainly with felt and wool, creating oversized soft versions of existing objects, according to her website. Her work often features the SSRI prescription drug, Prozac.
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- Lucy sparrow felt cornershop
- Lucy Sparrow Stocked an Entire Supermarket with 31000 Felt Sculptures
- The Cornershop
- Madame Roxys Erotic Emporium
- 8 till Late
- References
Sparrow has been involved in a number of notable group shows in the UK; for instance, she was a contributor to the Victoria and Albert Museum 2013 travelling street art collection alongside Banksy, Blek le Rat, Jamie Hewlett, Pure Evil, D*D*Face and urban illustrator Oh Jiwon. Her first solo show at Hoxton Gallery was Imitation, which recreated famous artworks out of felt, including a shark in a tank by Damien Hirst.
Lucy Sparrow Stocked an Entire Supermarket with 31,000 Felt Sculptures
The Cornershop
In 2014, Sparrow created a Kickstarter campaign to fund her first major exhibition. The Cornershop was a soft sculpture recreation of a British newsagent's installed in a derelict cornershop in East London. According to news sources, it took Sparrow and her assistant seven months and 300 sq metres of felt to create the 4,000 items on display.
Madame Roxy's Erotic Emporium
In 2015, Lucy Sparrow made an installation of a sex shop in London's Soho, saying that her inspiration for the work was her five years working as a stripper in a nightclub, and that she wished to make people question the increasing suppression of some sexual practices in British law, and the gentrification of Soho. The exhibition was called Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium and included pornographic magazines, whips, toys and jars full of STIs.
8 'till Late
In 2017, Sparrow installed a felt replica of a bodega in The Standard, High Line hotel in New York City.