Sarah Entwistle b. London,1979. Lives in Berlin
Trained as an architect, at The Bartlett, UCL and Architectural Association, London. In 2019 she received the main prize for Mostyn21, Mostyn Gallery and in 2017 was the recipient of the Artists’ International Development Fund, Arts Council England. In 2014 she received the Foundation Le Corbusier Grant for Visual Artists and in 2015 presented a solo exhibition, He was my father and I an atom, destined to grow into him, at the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. The exhibition coincided with the publication of her experimental biography, Please send this book to my mother, Sternberg Press, 2015, published with the support of The Graham foundation for the advanced studies in fine art, Chicago.
Fascinated with the malleable nature of materials, and the architectural historical practice of spolia -the appropriation of materials into new forms - as a potent counter force to inherited personal and cultural determinism her broader project is a continued dialogue and dismantling of the archive of her late grandfather and fellow architect, Clive Entwistle [1916-1976], whom she never met. This vast collection of unrealized designs and personal papers revealed Clive to be a mercurial and complex figure whose cardinal points of ‘Architecture, Spiritually, Intellect and Sex’ laid bare his conflation of sex and esoteric pursuits with his professional practice. The segues of her grandfather’s life have wound deep into a trans-generational haunting addressed through her practice as she continues to filter and digest, on a number of levels, the archive contents. Raking it for resonant motifs, imagery, materials and forms. Repurposing both original material and intellectual content into a visual and formal language. Addressing this material has become a means for evaluating her own identity as an architect, artist and woman. Developing objects within sculptural still lives that incorporate singular elements such as large-scale hand-woven tapestries, found and refashioned metal off cuts, ceramic objects and works on paper that often recall domestic furnishings and quotidian objects. The expressive handmade singularity of each element renders them counter to the reproducible and purposeful prototypes of high design. This process of transmutation attempts a form of creative and cultural exorcism, and a reckoning with a highly personal history.
EDUCATION:
University of Westminster: RIBA part 3: Professional Diploma in Architecture 2008-2009
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London: RIBA part 2: Diploma in Architecture [Distinction] 2005-2007
The Bartlett, UCL: RIBA part 1: BSc Architecture and the built environment 1999-2003
GALLERIES:
HERO Gallery, Amsterdam
Etage Projects, Copenhagen
Signs and Symbols, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Over and Over Again: Life after Yourself 2020
HERO Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joint solo with Diango Hernandez.
Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti with Gabriel Rolt
Remember to do those things done before that have to be done again 2020
Museo Nivola, Sardinia, Italy
You shout first, and I will shout after
Signs & Symbols Gallery, New York, USA 2019
It may prove a mere accident that we met, or it may prove a necessity
Signs & Symbols Gallery, New York, USA 2019
All that I have acquired in life is yours for the taking, and in fact, you must take it
Etage Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018
Carry this folded piece of paper everywhere, like a talisman
Solo exhibition, Adelinquere Project space, Turin, Italy 2017
He was my father, and I was an atom of him destined to grow into him 2015
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, France
Please send this book to my mother Sternberg Press. 2015
Experimental architectural monograph, produced with the support of
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago
In Short, in theory and with a bit of Luck 2012
Architectural Association, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS:
Art Rotterdam with HERO Gallery 2020
February
HEROES
HERO Gallery, Amsterdam 2019
Mostyn21
Mostyn Gallery - Curator, Hannah Conroy 2019
Ideal types 2018
HERO Gallery, Amsterdam
GRANTS AND PRIZES:
Mostyn21 - Mostyn Gallery, Wales
Main Prize 2019
Jurors: Jennifer Higgie, Hannah Conroy, Alfredo Cramerotti,
Arts Council England
Artists’ International Development Fund 2017
Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris.
Young artists grant 2014
Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture, Chicago.
Production and presentation grant for artist book with Sternberg Press 2014
PRESS AND REVIEWS:
100 books that every designer should know. 2020
Renee Spitz – AVedition
‘Book of the Year’ by Owen Hatherley 2015
Exhibition review by Amy Verner 2015
He was my father, and I was an atom of him destined to grow into him
The Spaces
Exhibition review by Hettie Judah 2015
He was my father, and I was an atom of him destined to grow into him
TEACHING AND LECTURING:
Design Unit Tutor: First Year 2010 - 2012
Architectural Association, London
Visiting lecturer 2006 - 2015
Architectural Association / Bartlett School of Architecture / Cambridge University
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES:
Turning Points in Biography, Symposium, University of East Anglia. 2013
Delivered paper on work in progress.
Architecture on Display, participant round table discussion chaired by 2010
Mark Wigley, Architectural Association, London