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Sally has collaborated with other artists since 2000.

2SALLY4TH, 2008-11

Cycling, in Search of... 2011

Derbyshire

inviting intrigued passersby to contribute to the Fantasy Museum, a story about a precious object, person or event. 'Does it have to be real?' 'Can I make it up?

(photo Sally Lemsford)

 

talking to people in market

Pen&Cil. 2011

The Bluecoat, Liverpool

sweeping, dusting, mopping, polishing surfaces, in amongst people and intervening with them as they pass by or stand and watch. With great aplomb, giving out envelopes containing the collected up debris labelled 'Abstract Landscapes by Pen&Cil'.

(photo unknown)

2cleaners make abstract landscapes

Everyone's a Winner. 2011

Stoke: interactive intervention

'We'll talk about the SHOP project, you tell us about Stoke, its art, architecture and life...and we all win lip whistles and flutes.'

and another image is in the Trans-Siberian Arts Centre travelling on the Trans-Siberian Train from Moscow to Beijing 26 April- 2 May 2011.

(images JP Deacon)

 

 

2 people with a board and 50 scrolls

In Search of... 2010

adjacent to Conjunction Biennial, Stoke: interactive intervention

The offer of FREE escapes to unusually named places- inviting imaginations before going and an image on a postcard after a visit there.

(image Sally Newham)

postcard imagining what a place looks like

Gathering. 2010

9 Ladies stone circle: interactive intervention

At summer solstice, people make new statements with light boxes from One and Other (the 4th plinth).

(photo Sally Newham)

Over the Garden Fence. 2009

MatlockLive!: interactive intervention

A space in which to air your thoughts, be fired up and chill out!

(photo Jodie Cresswell)

 

tea table set with labels and invitation to write on the table cloth

In Passing We Remain. 2009

Norwich: interactive intervention

Dialogue about cremation or burial through a game and reference to Sir Thomas Browne.

 

game to choose burial or cremation

Other 2SALLY4TH projects have been:

  • Who is Listening? Artist's Voice, Nottingham
  • NY traces, Cornwall
  • Chain, South Normanton
  • Lost Community Foundation, South Normanton

Hollywood or spoon, a small group making big social comment through live art, projection and installation in non-gallery spaces. 2000-07

ID. 2005

3CYLINDERS at MatlockLive!: performance

Jesus wore a hood and sandals, Hitler wore a suit... can you tell what a person's identity is from an ID card?

(photo Tony Fisher)

cutting out an persons outline

Running Scared. 2003

Wirksworth Arts Festival: performance

Don't judge a person till you have walked in their shoes... Asylum Seekers have a wealth of stories to tell...

you are worth your weight in gold.

(photo JP Deacon)

2 people in costume making walking stories

Binding Contract. 2003

Riverside Centre, Belper: live art, installation, projection

The transition from cottage-industry to mill-working. Controls tighten, voices gag, people become invisible elements in the mechanistic process from cotton plant to finished consumer item.

one artist binding up another with rulesing uprules on cloth strips

Other Hollywood or spoon projects have been:

  • Every Little Helps, Belper
  • Divided, Nottingham
  • Caged Countries, 3CYLINDERS at Belper
  • It's Mine, Wirksworth Arts Festival
  • Angel Cake, Wirksworth Arts Festival
  • The Presence is a Gift, Derby
  • Veiled Silence, Wirksworth Arts Festival and Derby
  • She Balance, The Big Green Gathering
  • Pink-nic, Nottingham






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