Artist Statement
“Drawing on moments from everyday life I improvise with the binaries of spontaneity and choice. The work is driven by a process where one action leads to another. At times it is made rapidly by soaking, pouring and blotting pigments. Other works are made slowly, sometimes over years. Piecing work together in stops and starts, fragments are cut up and reassembled as in the tradition of quilting. My engagement with abstraction departs from earlier narrative-based work exploring identity, but continues a dialogue with transformation. I am interested in repetition, pattern, the grid and inspired by artists such as Frank Bowling, Agnes Martin and Ed Moses. Daily life is full of repetition, yet each moment is fresh. I am driven to shape materials, transform the chaotic and create objects of contemplation.” ~DS
Collections
Liverpool University Collection; BBC London; and, Private UK and international collections.
Born in London, Dionne Sparks has a first class BA Hons in Fine Art from Liverpool John Moores University. Formerly based in Berlin, Dionne currently lives and works in London.
Exhibitions Include
Confluence, Safehouse 1, London
Those Who Can, Cubitt Gallery, London
Wege des Ausbruch, Schoeneberg Townhall, Berlin
Meeting the Challenge, Kato, Berlin
Island Influences, The 198 Gallery, London
Bluecoat Christmas Draw, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Cherubim, Seraphim, Mistletoe and Myrrh, The Cornerhouse, Manchester
Diverse Cultures, Crafts Council Gallery, London and travelling
Storia, The Black Arts Alliance, Manchester
Being Here, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
Black Art: New Directions, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
The Whitworth Young Contemporaries, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Group Graduate Show, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Passion: Contemporary Black Women’s Creativity of the African Diaspora, The Elbow Room, London and travelling to Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
Out There Fighting, The Elbow Room, London
Art and Education for Racial Equality, Blackburn House, Liverpool