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Valerie Sparks

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  • VALERIE SPARKS

    VALERIE SPARKS

    Dark Garden 14 Apr - 6 May 2023
    Dark Garden is an exceptional progression of Valerie Sparks’s celebrated ‘Sanctuary’ series. This latest exquisitely detailed collection takes on an almost calligraphic form, with the vertical orientation of the images...
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  • Water[shed]

    Water[shed]

    50 Artists. 50 Years. 6 - 27 Aug 2022
    50 Artists. 50 Years. water[shed] is an exhibition conceived by OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights and presented in collaboration with Bett Gallery to support the Restore Pedder campaign....
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Sanctuary (Series II) 1 - 31 Oct 2020
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    this is not a wallflower 18 Oct - 9 Nov 2019
    'this is not a wallflower' brings landscape and botanical art together through a series of wallpaper installations. Floral Panel ‘Sanctuary’ provides the over-arching concept for a new long-term project. It...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Crossing 3 - 27 Feb 2019
    This work was created in the period following the death of my mother. Water is an ever-present element in my work. For my mother, crossing a body of water was...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Cape Bruny - West East West 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2019
    There is a dreamlike quality to the way Tasmania’s contrasting landscapes exist in close proximity to each other. From the west to east, one side of a cape to the...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Prospero’s Island 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2016
    The Tasmaniam landscape provides a rich source of imagery from which to create an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Prospero’s Island. Prospero’s Island – South West and Prospero’s Island North East chart...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Volta / Emergent 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2015
    Volta 1 and 2, and Emergent were created for Wildflower Restaurant at the Como Treasury in Perth . The hyper-real panoramic aesthetic references the utopian, hybrid landscapes of 19th century...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Le Vol 1 Jan 2014 - 1 Feb 2016
    Inspired by the 19thC French Scenic wallpaper Le Bresil by Desfossé, this work brings together birds from the collections of various natural history museums. The French term Le Vol translates...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    This Weather 1 Jan 2009 - 1 Feb 2010
    The ‘ this weather’ series focuses on the beauty, seductiveness and sense of danger of the sea and on the growing anxiety around erratic weather patterns that we are vulnerable...
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  • Valerie Sparks

    Valerie Sparks

    Luminist 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2008
    Luminist takes its name from a movement of 19th Century artists who were preoccupied with light and idealized combinations of architecture and nature. In this new media interpretation these elements...
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