Sarah Spanton
Spanton's practice is cross-disciplinary. Based in Manchester, her work embraces performance, video, photography, dance, sculpture and text.
Her recent work is made as part of her organisation Waymarking - which undertakes community-led planning, regeneration and economic development with a creative and cultural twist - www.waymarking.org.uk
Live / Performance
2014 - City Scribe: Montpellier, France, Montpellier
2014 - Cornucopia Exchange, Leeds
2013 - City Scribe: Liverpool, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2012 - City Scribe: Leeds 2, Leeds City Centre
2012 - City Scribe: Leeds 1, Leeds Town Hall / Great George Street
2010 - Project One, Pulse Cafe, 25 Fossgate, York
2010 - Princess: Clock Ticking, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield
2010 - Red Beast, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
2008 - Red Beast, Hull College, Hull
2007 - Bridge, Leeds College of Art & Design and Henry Moore Institute Library, Leeds
2006 - Princess: Clock Ticking, Patrick Studios Project Space, Leeds
2005 - Assemblage, Round Foundry Media Centre, Leeds
2005 - Princess: Clock Ticking - development phase, Leeds City Art Gallery & Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
2005 - The Performance Pack Performance, Patrick Studios, Leeds
2002 - Homeward Bound, Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin
2002 - Tomboy, Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin
2001 - Tomboy, Yorkshire Dance & Shifty Commuters Cabaret & The Green Room, Leeds, London, Manchester
2000 - Emerge, Waterstones Bookshop, Leeds
1999 - Homoeostasis; Fight or Flight, Yorkshire Dance & Ekistics Festival & 3 Mills Island Studios, Leeds, Sheffield, London
1998 - Box #1 & Box #2, Powerhouse 1 & Riley Theatre, Wakefield, Leeds
1997 - Homeward Bound, Chisenhale Dance Space & Powerhouse 1 & Chichester Institute, London, Wakefield, Chichester
1997 - Homeward Bound, Judson Church & Tacheles Theatre, New York, Berlin
1997 - Homeward Bound, New Works Festival & Mosaics '98 & Yorkshire Dance, Leicester, London, Leeds
1995 - Experiment No 11, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
1994 - We Surface, Yorkshire Dance & Powerhouse 1 & Institute of Higher Education, Leeds, Wakefield, Chichester
Group exhibitions
2014 Slices / Seams, part of Bed, Federation House, Manchester
2011 - Dwelling; a visual gazetteer, part of Open Eye, West Riding House, Leeds
2005 - Spatial Arrangement, Shift & Slack Video Screening, Leeds & Hull
2005 - Threshold, part of Zero Destination, Brahm Gallery, Leeds
2004 - Princess: peepshow fictions, Perambulator (New Work Yorkshire), Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire
1994 - 7 Lashes, Berlin, Germany
1994 - 7 Lashes and Hook, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
1994 - We Surface and Some 'Other' Men, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
Solo exhibitions
2020 - Towards-Together, Bridge 5 Mill, Holt Town, Manchester
2016 - Reactions, Crewe and Alsager Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University
2012 - Verse: Voices: Vistas, Miss Brown's Coffee House, Chapeltown, Leeds
2011 - Verse: Voices: Vistas, Leeds Media Centre
2005 - Set Apart From Others, Round Foundry Media Centre, Leeds
2000 - 7 Lashes, Waterstones Bookshop, Leeds
Socially engaged residencies
2013/4 - Citizens for Change, Leeds
2013 - Value in the Neighbourhood, Wachterstraat / Heukelstraat, Poelenburg, Zaandam
Artist book-works
2014 - Reflecting Back (online publication)
2013 - Witnessing the Event / Capturing the Particular (online publication)
2011 - Dwelling; a visual gazetteer
2008 - On Communication
Online / Web-based projects
2014 - ongoing... Move, Mark, Map - https://movemarkmap.wordpress.com/
2014 - Interactions Blog - https://interactionsperformance.wordpress.com/
2014 - Cornucopia Exchange - https://cornucopiaexchange.wordpress.com/
2014 - New Work Yorkshire Archive - https://newworkyorkshirearchive.wordpress.com/
2013 - Value in the Neighbourhood Blog - https://valueintheneighbourhood.wordpress.com/
2010 - ongoing... Waymarking Blog - https://waymarkingthesketchbook.wordpress.com/
Other projects
2014 - Interactions - initiator/manager of artist development programme on socially engaged practice
2013 - Nothing Ventured... Nothing Gained, Yorkshire - initiator/manager of international discursive events programme (part of Compass Live Art)
2012 - Live Art Meets Choreography, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds - curation of performance event
2011 - Compass Symposium, Leeds - initiation and direction (part of Compass Live Art)
2010 - 2017 Leeds Creative Timebank - co-founder and member
2003 - 2015 New Work Yorkshire, inititator, joint manager of artist-led network
Education and Qualifications
2015 University of Manchester – MSC in Urban Regeneration and Development (Distinction)
2000 De Montfort University, Leicester - MA in Dance Theory; representation and somatics
1989 Sheffield City Polytechnic - BA Hons. degree in Fine Art; Sculpture
1985 Hounslow Borough College - Certificate in Foundation Art