Camera: James Newton
Film editing: Joe Walsh, Amy Prior.
Music: ‘Je Suis Peuple Sans Visage’ by DJ Rupture

Drawing Room from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.

Shown as part of week-long film festival at the Curzon Soho/I.C.A, 2007.
http://sarahdoyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-cant-believe-how-great-i-feel-update.html

“This work is based on ideas and suggestions by the artist and writer Paul O’Kane concerning the question of a necessary expulsion that may lie at the heart of the formation of any community.”

THE ROLE OF THE VILLAGE IDIOT

An afternoon of public art/street performance on Peckham Square Saturday
28th March 2009, 2pm til 6pm.

The theme of the afternoon is performance and the role of the village idiot. Obviously we have the holy fools, shakespears court jester, the dada art movement, but the village idiot is something else he/she is something other, something familiar, somebody we all know and recognise in our local communities. Here we will attempt to investigate, the role of the village idiot, the question of ‘a necessary expulsion’, the emotion of shame and how that relates to our daily life and the strange people that we meet, street theatre and public art. Mainly using gesture and small props the artists will attempt to engage with the everyday happenings in peckham square. There will be a reception in the Bunhouse Pub opposite peckham square in the evening.

curated by Mark McGowan.

Artists:
Marcia Farquhar, Plastique Fantastique, Brian Dawn Chalkey, Hunt and Darton, Aaron Barschak, Edwina Ashton, Daniel Lehan, Galatica Hilton, Andrew Cooper, David C West, Sarah Doyle, Olivia Jane Ransley, Marcus Cope, Simon Ould, Alicia Logan, Mieko Takanami, Swarfega, Charlie Fox, Neil Drabble, Jack Catling, Calum F Kerr, Adrian Lee, Frog Morris, Phoebe Collings James,
lee campbell, sean kirwin, sara burgess, robyn minogue, lucy rushton, CApStAn StRiNg, Stephen Micalef, Rachael House, Jo David, Robin Bale, Vanessa Mitter, Deej Fabyc, Paulo Pierrea and more

I have work about actresses playing other actresses in biopics in the current ‘Fame’ issue of Arty magazine which you can buy online here: Arty Magazine

still image from ‘The Audrey Hepburn Story’ by Sarah Doyle

Here are links to two interviews connected to my Biopic work recently shown at
Transition Gallery for the Too Much Is Not Enough exhibition

Jotta profile of Sarah Doyle’s biopic paintings

Run Riot interview with Sarah Doyle

Start Time:
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 3:00am

Elevator Gallery
Mother Studios
Queens Yard
White Post Lane
Hackney Wick
London E9 5EN
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A platform for performance artists, musicians, sound artists, video and filmmakers, followed by an after Party.

Artist Oriana Fox will be composing an reinactment of Yves Klein’s performance painting where he used “living paintbrushes”. He covered nude women models with his signature blue paint (International Klein Blue, IKB) and then in a piece of performance art in front of an audience “painted” with them on large sheets of paper by directing them verbally. Instead of using naked women Fox will be using male performers.

Geisha brings to Elevator her exotic and erotic electro pop and the legendary Craig Template returns.

Also exciting new video art screenings and installation around the gallery space including Sarah Doyle’s ‘Dancehall Danceoff’.

DJ’s will groove with you late into the night…

ARTISTS CONFIRMED-

SARAH DOYLE
GEISHA
CRAIG TEMPLATE
PUSSY POWER
ORIANA FOX
GRACE MORGAN & HER BEAUTIFUL MINIONS
CAROLINE SMITH
BILL LESLIE
BRAM THOMAS ARNOLD & ELEANOR WYNNE
ERICA SCOURTI
DAWN WOOLLEY
MATTHEW APPLEBY
LAURA OLDFIELD FORD
RAAGNAGROK
BRIAN RHODES
WARREN GARLAND
VJ MALT DUCK
DJ SNOOZIE HEXAGON
DJ DAVID NOTARIUS OF SOUTH HACKNEY RADIO

PLUS DJ’S AND MUCH MORE.

Start Time:
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 5:30pm
End Time:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:00pm

Show info:
The Kiss of a Lifetime is a limited edition print show featuring the work of both internationally renowned artists and emerging talent from the UK and abroad.

This show aspires to give an overview to what the ‘Kiss’ signifies within our contemporary culture in the broadest sense, from the romantic to the lifesaving, from the prosaic to the violent.

The show is presented salon style, with the artists proofs pinned to the wall – like that of a love forlorn bedroom covered in posters of idolisation.

With over Ninety artists the show features; Mark Applegate, Magda Archer, Edward Barton, Paul Becker, Dave Beech, Stratton Barret, Divyesh Bhanderi, Simon Blackmore, Andrew Bracey, Brass Art, Lee Campbell, Paul Caton, Suki Chan, Lucienne Cole, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Sandy Christie, Faye Claridge, Philip Constable, Nick Crowe, Sophia Crilly, Antony Crook, Gordon Dalton, Alexandra David, Jo David, Stephen Davids, Gary Daly, Paul Davis, [deletia], Sarah Doyle, Sam Ely & Lynn Harris, Tim Etchells, Freee, Doug Fishbone, Bec Garland, Dom Garwood, Dave Gledhill, David Griffiths, S Mark Gubb, David Hancock, Shona Handley, Paul Harfleet, Richard Healy, Andy Hewitt, Len Horsey, Rachael House, Stewart Home, Hilary Jack, Mel Jordan, Naomi Kashiwagi, Mark Kennard, Serena Korda, Abigail Lane, Jean-Pierre Lapeyre, Wiebke Leister, Chara Lewis, Charles Lindsay, Katrin Lock, Cathy Lomax, Tessa Lynch, Jo McGonigal, Mark McGowan, Rory MacBeth, Jude Macpherson, Melanie Manchot, Jim Medway, Alexis Milne, Jason Minsky, Kristin Mojsiewicz, David Molloy, Franz Otto Novotny, Joerg Obergfell, Matthew Pawson, Gary Peploe, Vinca Petersen, Anneké Pettican, Harry Pye, Brian Reed, Katy Richardson, Isabel Rock, Liam Scully, Kenny Schachter, David Shrigley, Pamela So, Lisa Solminski, Paul Stanley, Chris Taylor, William Titley, James Topple, Jessica Voorsanger, Charlotte Young, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, John Walsh, Wendy and her Friends, Simon Woolham, Andrea Zapp, + Further Special Guests TBA…

See the BBC news report about the show

Rogue Artists’ Studios & Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street
Piccadilly
Manchester, M1 2WH
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Special thanks to: Alyson Doocey, Wendy Roberts, David Gledhill, Sophia Crilly, BEARSPACE and VANE.

This show is dedicated to Tony Hart rip.

Refreshments provided by: BECKS, APOTHECA & DOUGH.

SUPPORT BY: POLITE COMPANY & ROGUE ARTISTS STUDIOS

MEDIA SUPPORT BY: FLUX MAGAZINE

Artists:
Kim L Pace, Jessica Voorsanger, Gavin Toye, Cathy Lomax, Sarah Doyle

10 January – 8 February 2009
Fri-Sun 12-6pm
Private View: Friday 9 Jan 6-9pm

‘Fandom is one of the purest forms of unrequited love; it is both euphoric and destroying. You love them and they don’t want to be anywhere near you.’ Jessica Voorsanger.

The delirium of fame and fandom along with the darker underbelly of worn out and depraved celebrity define the work in this show by five artists who each have their own fascination with this heady subject matter.

The psychological compensation of either identifying with, or idolising a star can be seen as an attempt to make up for the inadequacies of modern life. However far from being a reactionary dismissal of these adolescent and dysfunctional yearnings, the participating artists deem identification with their subject matter and wry humour a legitimate site from which to work.

Themes in the show include Patrick Swayze and his equine love interest, the inevitable end of the kitsch Hollywood idol Jayne Mansfield, screaming teenage fans, actresses playing other actresses and karaoke wannabes.

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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info@transitiongallery.co.uk
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See more images from Too Much Is Not Enough here on Flickr

22nd Nov – 21st Dec 2008

Private View: Fri 21 Nov 6-9pm

Artists:
Alex Michon, Alex Virji, Antonio Gianasi, Ben Newton, Cathy Lomax, Chris Randall, Gavin Toye, Geraldine Swayne, James Unsworth, Jasper Joffe, Jimmy Conway-Dyer, Justin Pearce, Jonny Dawe, Kristen Cutlip, Lee Johnson, Mary Herbert, Matt Franks, Noah Sherwood, Robert Wornum, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Rose Gibbs, Sarah Doyle, Sarah Conway-Dyer, Tom Mason

Mike Leigh’s play and film ‘Abigails Party’ was set around the changing attitudes of the aspiring middle classes of the suburban 1970s. It raised issues of social status – the keeping up of appearances – and the conflict of differing tastes.

The play finishes with the death of Lawrence, the arbiter of the ‘high arts’, following a night of cringe-worthy ‘entertaining’ by wife Beverley (Alison Steadman). She argues for her erotic painting over her husband’s Van Gogh, her Demis Roussos over his Beethoven.

Abigail’s Arty will transform the gallery space into a living space, showing art that’s about contemporary taste.

Crimes Town
110 Church Street
London, N16 OJX
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See images from the Abigail’s Arty show here on Flickr

15 Nov – 21 Dec 2008

Private View: Fri 14 Nov 6-9pm

Artists:
Carolina Ambida, Michael Ajerman, Majed Aslam, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Paul Becker, Lindsey Bull , Jorge Cabieses, Melanie Carvalho, Rachel Cattle, Jake Clark, Mark Croxford, Sam Dargan, Roger Dilkes, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Rob Eagle, Patrick Galway, Mikey Georgeson, Antonio Gianasi, Mark Gubb, Roderick Harris, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Hebson, Rachael House, Paul Housley, Marc Hulson, Jasper Joffe, Annie Kevans, Hannah Knox, Lady Lucy, Cathy Lomax, Andrew Mania, Jennifer Merrell, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Natasha Morland, Tabitha Moses, Paul Murphy, Ben Newton, Marcus Oakley, Gary O’Connor, Nina Ogden, Laura Oldfield Ford, James Payne, Claire Pestaille, Esther Planas, Rachel Potts, Harry Pye, Polly Read, DJ Roberts, Joseph Ryken, Alli Sharma, Joe ‘Sh*tter’ Boyce, Charlie Stanley, Keara Stewart, Ilona Szalay, Emma Talbot, Chris Taylor, Emma Thatcher, Abbi Torrance, Gavin Toye, Katherine Tulloh, Edward Weldon, Jo Wilmot, Lara Viana

The synthesis of music and art has a long history from pop to post modern, with particular songs becoming integral to the making of individual pieces of work. Lyrics have a powerful artistic poignancy and with this in mind Transition Gallery have asked over sixty contemporary artists to make a new work inspired by a favourite lyric for Awopbopaloobop.

Unsurprisingly Awopbopaloobop features a diverse array of lyrics from the political rallying cry of the Internationale to the plaintive gospel of The Sweet Inspirations via The Ting Tings, Joy Division, The Smiths, Sibylle Baier, Pavement, PJ Harvey, The Jam and many more. Using a variety of media Awopbopaloobop transforms this cacophony of passionately felt lyrical paeans into visual manifestations of aural desire.

The launch of the rock ‘n’ roll issue of Garageland Magazine which features Jarvis Cocker, Thurston Moore, MIA, Kylie Minogue, Bernard Rhodes, Peter Liversidge, Slade in Flames, the top ten art bands and much more takes place on Sunday 30 November 4-6pm.

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
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info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 8986 3888

See more images from AWOPBOPALOOBOP here on Flickr

After four great years in Notting Hill, Sartorial Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its move to
Kings Cross in the heart of London’s most exciting new art district. Sartorial Kings Cross will be one
of the largest new contemporary art galleries in London with 6000 square feet of exhibition space.
Sartorial is known for its commitment to ground-breaking art, unparalleled support of artists, and publication of the art world’s favourite fun-sized magazine “The Rebel”.

Two major shows launch the space:

REMEMBER MY NAME is about celebrities who thought they could only cope with life by being famous and then found out they couldn’t. Showcasing Sartorial’s Superstars plus bright new things:
Julie Bennett, Sarah Doyle, Mikey Georgeson, Gretta, Mat Humphrey, James Jessop, Jasper Joffe, Annie Kevans, Cathy Lomax, Martin McGinn, Gavin Nolan, Harry Pye, Chris Tosic, Gavin Toye.

BURNING CANDY – Three of the UK ‘s most notorious graffiti vandals, Cyclops, Sweet Toof , Tek33
have exclusively for this show created new works with their raw messy trademark punk style that has brought them cult status over the last two years. ‘Burning Candy’ book with text by Olly Beck available.

PRIVATE VIEW OCTOBER 15th, 5 – 11pm. Music and Live Performances
Both exhibitions run until November 11th.
Tuesday to Saturday 1:30 to 7pm

SARTORIAL CONTEMPORARY ART
26 Argyle Square , London WC1H 8AP
T: + 44 (0) 20 7792 5882 / E: art@sartorialart.com
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FERREIRA PROJECTS
23 Charlotte Road
London, EC2A 3PB
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artists:
Ayling&Conroy, Bedwyr Williams, James R Ford, Russell Herron, Sarah Doyle, Stewart Gough

FERREIRA PROJECTS is proud to announce James R Ford’s first curatorial project – Irregular Pulse. Presenting a group of contemporary artists whose work is imbued with a sense of play and conceptual wit; spanning installation, sculpture, painting and video.

Ayling&Conroy are interested in making artwork that entertains, and involves various forms of audience engagement. Their practice has grown out of an interest in the context in which artwork is created and received, and the audience’s participation with the work, wherever it exists; both at the point of experiencing the work in the gallery or in its wider dissemination through discussion, documentation and other types of media.

Bedwyr Williams represented Wales at the 2005 Venice Biennale with a project called ‘Basta’. His work involves stand-up comedy, sculpture and painting, posters and photography. He recently gave a performance at Royal College of Art, London and had a solo exhibition entitled ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’ at STORE at the start of 2008.

James R Ford is an artist whose practice is concerned with childlike past-times, pursuits and obsessions. His body of work consists of projects and investigations based around observations, process and play: ranging from a formula predicting Bond film plot structures, to tracking the lives of cigarette lighters, to covering a Ford Capri in over 4,000 toy cars. Ford’s latest work focuses on his fascination with his pet – utilising his adolescent cat as an art tool.

Russell Herron has produced a series of works as adverts, announcements, stickers, magazines, litter, wall paintings and performances as well as an online blog and an email listing service. His work frequently uses his own name as an intervention in an ever growing series of signs and free collectables. He is the founder of The Russellettes, a group of individuals who appear at private views and launches dressed in Russell Herron branded T shirts.

Sarah Doyle uses mixed media and drawing, along with video and multi media. The subjects dealt with typically involve popular culture and growing up. Her work concentrates on the emulation of icons and obsessions, feelings of isolation and trying to fit in. Doyle’s current work consists of paintings using nail varnish and nail technician tools on mirrors.

Stewart Gough’s sculptures are assemblages of everyday plastic objects and utility systems used as though real world ‘Lego’ bricks. Operating in the spirit of Archigram’s ‘Instant Cities’; often implying an integrated mode of transport, decamping to facilitate their operation as sculptural event, thereby proposing a new, materially ‘merged down’ space for a positively ironic sculpture.

All participating artists will be exhibiting new or recent work. To accompany the show there will be a new limited edition collectable by Russell Herron and a special appearance by The Russellettes on the opening night.