Sarah Entwistle
born 1979 in London, UK
lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Sarah Entwistle portrait at Nivola sq.jpg
 

sarah entwistle received her BSc from The Bartlett School of Architecture, London and her Dip. from the Architectural Association, London, where she subsequently taught a design unit. In 2011, she inherited the personal effects of her late grandfather and fellow architect, Clive Entwistle (1916 – 1976), whom she never met — this material re-emerged from a Manhattan storage room where it had been retained for over thirty years. Entwistle's subsequent solo show In short, in theory and with a bit of luck (2012) at the Architectural Association marked the beginning of her engagement with Clive’s archive. Working from within a biographical frame that orientates around the processing and ‘spoliation’ of this archive, Entwistle's process of re-working both material and thematic remnants from within the archive offers opportunities to address wider gendered dynamics at an intimate scale. The contents of the archive reveals a charged relationship between Clive’s female lovers, relatives, and his professional practice as a proponent of architectural modernism. The impulse with this on-going processing of the material is compelled by the gradual re-centering and re-claiming of the female Muse.

Entwistle received the 2014 Le Corbusier Foundation Grant for Visual Artists and in 2015 presented a solo exhibition, He was my father and I an atom destined to grow into him, at the Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris. The exhibition coincided with her experimental biography, Please send this book to my mother, published by Sternberg Press in 2015. She was also the recipient of the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Fine Art, Chicago publication and production grant in 2014. In 2017, she received a grant from the Arts Council England, Artists' International Development Fund, with which she is developing an ambitious site-specific installation for the Zevaco House, Casablanca in collaboration with curator Salma Lahlou. In 2019, she was awarded the MOSTYN Open 21 Main Prize in Llandudno, Wales. She had her first solo exhibition in New York at signs and symbols, It may prove a mere accident that we met, or it may prove a necessity, in 2019, followed by her second solo exhibition at the gallery in 2022. In 2020, she was the subject of a solo exhibition, You should remember to do those things done before that have to be done again, at Museo Nivola in Sardinia. Her artist's monograph, titled Junk. Own, was published by DISTANZ, Berlin in March 2022.

 

selected works

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gallery exhibitions