Juxtapoz Art and Culture-Spring_2019

LUCY SPARROW JUXTAPOZ.COM 77

Not any more than Warhol’s approach, you
shouldn’t call it fake art.
Ha! Fake art, fake life. That’s our life now.

I knew you wouldn’t restrict yourself to
supermarket products.
I want to show a range of what I can do. Food,
obviously, has been really successful, but essentially,
I want to show every aspect. I’d like to make an
entire home that’s like a hoarder’s house all made of
felt. I might make a replica of my house where each
room will have a different decade. I want to start
doing big, flat tapestries with storyboards and all.
There are just so many things.

In the meantime, you’re enjoying your new

home.

I’m loving it. I’ve never owned a home before, and

now I have somewhere to live permanently. I’m

designing it in the most crazy way so that the living

room will be Victorian curiosities with taxidermy,

a 50’s pink and lime green kitchen and a fast-food

themed bedroom. I’ve got a circular bed that’s

actually being made into a hamburger so that when

you climb onto the meat patty, underneath will be

the lettuce and the buns on top.

It’s definitely your mission to make, and to make

people happy.

Yeah, essentially my goal is to create events

and pieces of art that people will remember

forever. And I mean pieces of art as in the whole

installation. I hope that a kid who went to Sparrow

Mart with their family will remember it in 20

years time. I remember going to see the Sensation

show at the Saatchi Gallery when I was 11, and

it blew my mind as to what art could be. It just

changed how I viewed everything. My Mum took

me, and I’ll never forget it. I even remember what

we had for lunch that day.

Lucy Sparrow’s next exhibition will open at M Woods

in Beijing, China in July 2019.

Above: Felt version of Mondrian’s Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, 18.1” x 18.1”, 2019