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Sandra uses contemporary and
recycled materials such as toy cars, planes and dolls
to explore urban ideas in a form reminiscent of the iconography
of her Italian background and heritage. Born and raised
in London, and now living near Heathrow Airport, she has
developed a fascination for the physicality and consciousness
of the human individual within the collective unconscious
that is the city.
Her works are seductive and hypnotic: sometimes macabre
and surreal, sometimes abstract and beautiful. Landscapes
of organically shaped ‘mountains’ made of
plastic beads and wires also make an appearance in Sandra’s
extraordinary world.
As with her boxed works, her drawings are obsessively
intricate. She draws, sews and paints on the paper, mapping
out these urban, human and natural energies.
email: beccarelli_sandra@hotmail.com
D.O.B: 08-03-69 (London)
EDUCATION
| 2000 |
Artists’ Professional
Development Course, Redlees Arts Studios,
Isleworth |
| 1988-91 |
BA Hons Degree in Fine Art, Bristol Polytechnic |
| 1990 |
3 month exchange, Accademia Di Belle Arti,
Ravenna, Italy |
1987-88
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Foundation Course, Wimbledon School of Art |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| Jan 03 |
Lumina, Fovea Gallery,
Harrow, Middx |
| Oct 00 |
Enclosures Disclosures, Woodlands
Art Gallery, Greenwich, London |
| Nov 97 |
AGGRO and other pictures (cross-dressed
and cross), The Drill Hall, London |
Feb 96
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Large scale mixed media works, Alternative
Arts Gallery, London, W1 |
| June 94 |
Out of the Closet and Causing Havoc,
Alternative Arts Gallery, London, W1 |
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MIXED EXHIBITIONS
| Aug 01 |
LAMBDA, artists working
with light, shown in a club environment at
the Rythym |
| July 00 |
TW7+, open studios at the Redlees
Arts Studios, Isleworth |
| Feb 00 |
I am Desirable, eat me, Brixton
Art Gallery, London |
Aug 99
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Dressed Up Messed Up, with Judith
Haynes, The Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London |
| Oct 97 |
Checkout-Consumer Identity in the 90’s,
The Watermans Arts Centre, London |
| Sept 94 |
Mirror Mirror, Arts Index, Brighton |
| Oct 93 |
Mono '93, The Small Mansions Art
Centre, London, W3 |
| July 93 |
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women,
The Nicht Gallery, Bucks |
| July 91 |
Fresh Art, The Business Design
Centre, Islington, London |
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INVITED ARTIST
| July 02 |
Summer Open Studio, Redlees
Arts Studios, Isleworth, Middx |
| Sept 01 |
Collective Pulse, with Caitlin
Heffarnan, Stables Gallery, Orleans House,
Twickenham |
| Oct 95 |
The Way We Live Now, with Howard
Hodgkin, Susan Sontag and Phillip Tyler, Gardner
Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton |
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RADIO INTERVIEW
| Oct 95 |
BBC Southern Radio with Emanuel
Cooper
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PUBLICATIONS
| Jan 03 |
Article & an image from
Lumina in Artists Newsletter magazine |
| Sept 01 |
Review of Collective Pulse in Richmond
& Twickenham Times |
| Aug 99 |
One of my images on the back cover of Design
Week |
| Oct 95 |
Article in Brighton and Hove Art Trail
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Pulse Box 31
- Yellow Mountain Glow
32x27 cms
Phosphorescent beads, coloured wires, acrylic paint,
flashing battery operated lights in wooden box. |
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