Overview
- Public previews at the Lyndsey Ingram Gallery began this week with free admission Wednesday through Sunday and an extra opening on August 25
- The Bourdon Street Chippy installation features 65,000 hand-stitched felt items recreating everything from battered fish and chips to jars of vinegar and mushy peas
- Visitors can purchase felt works directly from the counter with prices spanning from £5 salt sachets to £50,000 drinks fridges
- Sparrow’s project evokes nostalgia for a dish whose traditional British “chippies” have dwindled from about 35,000 in 1929 to 10,000 by 2009, reflecting wider closures
- This latest work continues her decade-long series of immersive community-space installations and follows her recent recovery from anorexia that has shaped her relationship with food and art