{"id":72108,"date":"2025-12-05T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72108\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:48:09","slug":"arts-alive-podcast-artist-lucy-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72108\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Alive! podcast: Artist Lucy Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Lucy Sparrow, whose unique installations in London art galleries (and elsewhere) have made her something of a worldwide celebrity, is our guest today on the Arts Alive! podcast.<\/p>\n

Sparrow was in St. Petersburg putting together Lucy Sparrow\u2019s Quick Shop, an installation-slash-exhibition at FloridaRAMA, St. Petersburg\u2019s walk-through art experience. It\u2019s a place where sensory overload is encouraged, and everything there is just a meter or two over the top.<\/p>\n

Perfect for Sparrow, whose whimsical FloridaRAMA entry is a bodega, a small grocery store, in which each and every item \u2013 and there are 13,000 of them \u2013 is hand-stitched and lovingly covered in felt.<\/p>\n

(Every package of soap, every box of chocolates or crackers, every milk bottle and every potato is like a little life-sized pillow, covered in felt and appropriately decorated. Everything is for sale, too.)<\/p>\n

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During our interview, Sparrow explains her process, and her illustrious history as a worldwide felt artist, and gets specific about her most famous installations, from a tea party at Buckingham Palace, a \u201cfelt Imaginarium\u201d in Beijing, a McDonald\u2019s in Miami and her current London exhibition, a to-scale Fish & Chips restaurant.<\/p>\n

In fact, the only question she never gets around to answering is \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because she\u2019s an artist, and that\u2019s really all the answer anybody needs.<\/p>\n

Click on the arrow to listen to the conversation.<\/p>\n

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