ARTS ALIVE St. Pete Catalyst's Bill DeYoung - Lucy Sparrow @FloridaRAMA

Artist Lucy Sparrow, whose unique installations in London art galleries (and elsewhere) have made her something of a worldwide celebrity, is the guest today on the Arts Alive! podcast with Bill DeYoung. 
👉Sparrow was in St. Petersburg putting together Lucy Sparrow’s Quick Shop, an installation-slash-exhibition at FloridaRAMA, St. Petersburg’s walk-through art experience. It’s a place where sensory overload is encouraged, and everything there is just a meter or two over the top. Perfect for Sparrow, whose whimsical FloridaRAMA entry is a bodega, a small grocery store, in which each and every item – and there are 13,000 of them – is hand-stitched and lovingly covered in felt. (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.)
👉During this entertaining 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 “felt Imaginarium” in Beijing, a McDonald’s in Miami and her current London exhibition, a to-scale Fish & Chips restaurant.
👉In fact, the only question she never gets around to answering is “Why?” 
Because she’s an artist, and that’s really all the answer anybody needs.

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