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@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories'
#101ghoststories 35. The Electric Girl
Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021
In the 1920's, psychical researcher, magician and paper bag salesman Harry Price met a young dental nurse, Stella Cranshaw, on a train journey.
#HarryPrice invited Cranshaw back to his laboratory of Psychical Research, in London to test her abilities to communicate with the dead. During a series of well documented controlled
#seances numerous phenomena were recorded including sparks of blue light, manifestations of lilac flowers, bells ringing and a seance table attacking a colonel's knees!
As a research fellow and artist in residence, at the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, 2009-2012, I researched the
#StellaC seances making several pieces of work in response. This included working with library staff to record the notes from a Stella C seance, almost in the in the manner of reading lines in a play. The recording became part of an installation at Senate House
@senatehouselib - photo number 3 and 4. The installation left a space free for a single sitter to join the circle and listen to the recording of the seance reading. The jars on the shelves are printed with faces of mediums and Psychical researchers and hold light bulbs. Price tested Stella's telekinetic power by seeing if she could light up a light bulb inside a bell jar with the power of thought. I gave talks about Price for some wonderful hosts including, London Fortean
@valley_of_the_skitster The Ghost Club and Treadwells
@treadwellsbooks & SEFLs
@george_hoyle
Thanks in part to
@aceagrams Covid Fund 2020, I've been able to reflect on 12 years of creative research and curatorial project GHost
@theghostformula
What manifested from this is a host of ghosts and haunted people places and things that I am channeling in this new s
@thecollegeofpsychicstudies #sarahsparkes @senatehouselib #senatehouselibrary #HPL #gouachepainting #ghostpaintings #spirit