GHost

@theghostformula

Visual arts and creative research project initiated in 2008. GHost = a platform to manifest and interrogate the idea of the ghost.
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes Really looking forward to being a co-host at this magical day of talks @conwayhall tomorrow. Convined by @valley_of_the_skitster ————-Magic is a dark vein running through the history and practice of art. Join us for a selection of talks and discussion on artists and magic in art. Victoria Jenkins: Visions of the Occult – An Untold Story of Art & Magic @jenkinsjenkinsjenkins Vivienne Roberts: Lost Artists at The College of Psychic Studies @mediumisticart Vivienne Roberts: Madge Gill and Myrninerest Rachael House: Genderqueer Deities @rachaellhouse Phil Baker: Austin Osman Spare – The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist 25th March 2023 · 11:00am Doors open: 10:30am
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Posted @withrepost@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 37. Deep Trance Jack Webber was a coal miner turned Spiritualist Medium. In deep trance states he produced 'apports' things/ objects that are manifested from another plane of existence. Like Helen Duncan and other material mediums he frequently produced ectoplasmic emissions. Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021 Thanks in part to Arts Council @aceagrams Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House @senatehouselib FACT @fact_liverpool and NTMOFA Domo Baal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial with @gogowhippet to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition @thamessidestudiosse18 and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects @newartprojects these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #jackwebber #materialmedium #ghostphotographer #welshmedium #spiritualism #ghostartist #gouachepainting #newseries #londonartist . #worksonpaper #ectoplasm #seance #trance
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Posted @withregram@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
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Thanks @collectionofmediumisticart for sharing this today. Posted @withregram@collectionofmediumisticart 80 years ago today, on June 27, 1942, the White Rose resistance group in #Munich began its work against the Nazi regime. To take an example from such role models is important, is vital, every day we aspire to live in a free and open society. I bow to the brave members of the group with a white rose from the intermediate realm – materialized in a spiritualistic séance by the Polish medium Stanisława Popielska (ca. 1893-1938), known in parapsychological literature as Stanislawa P.). Materialization séances are special examples of mediumistic art, realized with the use of the whole body. Due to some kind of sacred precinct of the cabinet behind heavy black curtains and with the medium in her black dress (often Stanisława was sewn into a black leotard), the presentation seems orchestrated like an avant-garde theatrical performance, some kind of modernist mystery play and at the same time like a peep show for furtive brief glimpses into the abysses of a seductive otherworld. With the grace of a prima ballerina, 20-year-old Stanisława pushes aside the curtain with her fingers elegant as in a painting by #Bronzino , to make the appearance of the ghostly white rose visible to the sitters. // Detail of vintage stereo photograph by Piotr Lebiedziński, 26 April 1913, Warsaw (complete size 7.7 x 16.5 cm | 3 x 6.5 in) // Piotr Lebiedziński (1860-1934) was Polish engineer, chemist, entrepreneur, inventor, and constructor in the field of photography and film. He also was an ardent researcher in the field of psychical research and one of the main investigators of Stanisława Popielska. May be of interest @seance_book @theghostformula @thesarahsparkes @tonyoursler @weisse_rose_stiftung #WeißeRose #WeisseRose #münchen #neverforget #agnolobronzino #stanisławapopielska #ectoplasm #mediumism #seance #mediumisticart #seancephoto #spiritmessages #spiritphotography #spiritphoto #occult #collectionofmediumisticart
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 31. The Nun's Walk Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021 One of the most infamous of the Borley Rectory ghosts, was that of a nun. The apparition appeared to witnesses along a pathway which eventually became known as 'the nun's walk' People still visit Borley, hoping to glimpse or record paranormal activity, though the old Borley Rectory has long gone. Thanks in part to Arts Council Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House FACT and NTMOFA Domo Baal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects, these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #borleyrectory #spiritualism #thenunswalk #ghosthunter #ghosthostings #sarahsparkes #newartprojects #ghostpaintings #gouachepainting #artistseries
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 29. Communion Gouache on cotton rag, A6 In the first decades of the 1900s, in Winnipeg Canada, the large private home of Thomas and Lillian Hamilton hosted a 'ghost laboratory'. Mediums and sisters Mary and Susan Marshall regularly sat for seances as part of the Hamiltons search for proof of paranormal phenomena and their hope to commune with the spirit of their son who died of flu in the 1918- 1919 pandemic. Thanks in part to Arts Council Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House FACT and NTMOFA Domo Baal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects, these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #marymarshall #spiritualism #seance #canadianspiritualism #ghostlab #ghosthostings #sarahsparkes #newartprojects #ghostpaintings #gouachepainting #artistseries #TGH #ThomasHamilton #ectoplasm
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 28. GHost Moon Gouache on cotton rag, A6 Tonight, Aug 22, the full moon is A GHOST MOON It's Ghost Month, a month long ghost festival in Taiwan, which originates from the Chinese Ghost Festival. The first full moon of Ghost Month is known as the Ghost Moon or Hungry Ghost Moon. The Ghost Festival sometimes known as Hungry Ghost Festival falls during the 7th month in the Chinese calendar. During this month the spirits of the dead freely roam the land of the living for an entire month In 2017 I was artist in residence at The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art researching ghosts as part of the exhibition No Such Thing as Gravity curated by Rob La Frenais and Mike Stubbs. One of the many things I learned was not tap someone on the back during ghost month. Malevolent spirits may use this as a way to steal ones soul. Ghost Month is from Aug 8 - Sep 6 this year. Thanks in part to Arts Council Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House FACT and NTMOFA @ntmofa_museum Domo Baal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition at Thames-side Studios Gallery and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects, these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #ghostmoon #nationaltaiwanmuseumoffineart #hungryghost #taiwanghostfestival #ghostfestival #newartprojects #ghostmonth #gouache #ghostory #seance #sarahsparkes
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 26. Laid To Rest Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021 Borley Rectory was said to be haunted by a nun (among many other things). The story goes that the nun was murdered as a punishment for her affair with a monk. Psychical researcher Harry Price led a famous investigation into the Borley hauntings after being invited to investigate with a Daily Mirror reporter in 1929. Bones, part of a human jaw and a skull, were unearthed in the Rectory grounds. It was proposed that these were the mortal remains of Marie Lairre, the ghost nun who haunted Borley. The bones were placed in a wooden box and lowered into a small hole in the churchyard by the Rector. Was the nun laid to rest? Thanks to Arts Council Covid Support Fund @aceagrams in 2020, I was able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House FACT and NTMOFA Domo Baal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects @newartprojects , these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #Laidtorest #BorleyRectory #harryprice #psycicalresearch #newartprojects #bones #gouache #newseries #ghostory #ghostnun #sarahsparkes
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 32. "You’ll all be guessing—for the rest of your lives.” Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021 In 1920s Boston, Margery Crandon AKA "Mina" AKA "the Blonde Witch of Lime Street", was a renowned material medium. Mina manifested the voice of her dead brother Walter, whose ectoplasmic hand appeared from her vagina, it seems, producing a thumbprint as evidence* Mina"s seances were attended by local and international luminaries - Arthur Conan Doyle was a fan. However Houdini was convinced he could prove she was faking it. After attending her sittings he detailed just how she used slight of hand/ leg/ head and accomplices to move objects around. In August 1926, Walter, Margery’s angry spirit guide proclaimed that “Houdini will be gone by Halloween" Houdini died on Sunday Oct 31st. * One of Walter’s fingerprints turned out to be Mina's dentist’s Thanks in part to Arts Council Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House @senatehouselib FACT and NTMOFA Domo Baal and Inspiral London @inspirallondon and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition curated with Monika Bobinska and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects @newartprojects , these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #MargeryCrandon #spiritualism #minacrandon #materialmedium #houdini #seance #ghosthostings #sarahsparkes #newartprojects #ghostpaintings #ectoplasm #gouachepainting #artistseries
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Posted @withregram@thesarahsparkes 101 GHost Stories' #101ghoststories 34. The Foyster Family Gouache on cotton rag, A6, 2021 Rev. Lionel Foyster, his wife Marianne and adopted daughter Adelaide lived in Borley Rectory from 1928 - 1939. The Rectory already had a reputation as a haunted house. The Foysters claimed to have experienced a barrage of paranormal activity including objects being propelled violently by unseen hands, Marianne being thrown from her bed and Adelaide "attacked by something horrible" The boy in my painting is the son of Lodger Frank Pearless. It is written that, Marianne said, she had been having an affair with the lodger and had claimed poltergeist activities to cover this up. Thanks in part to Arts Council Covid Support Fund in 2020, I've been able to reflect on 11 years of my 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 series. From GHosts inception with the marvellous Ricarda Vidal in 2008, where we held 'GHost-hostings' in the haunted rooms at Senate House FACT @fact_liverpool and NTMOFA Domo Baal @domobaal and Inspiral London and exhibitions at St John Bethnal Green, LAF and Folkestone Triennial with @gogowhippet to the recent Arts Council funded Ghost Tide exhibition @thamessidestudiosse18 and solo show The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects @newartprojects these are just a part of my journey as the GHost host. Now I'm sharing the GHosts of my life - the ghosts of GHosts - a host of guests, who have worked with GHost or formed part of my research. #borleyrectory #mariannefoyster #Hauntedhouse #harryprice #poltergeist #spr #ghosthostings #societyforpsychocalresearch ##sarahsparkes #newartprojects #ghost-paintings #gouachepainting #artistseries
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Feed your Hungry Ghost. To find out why listen to my ghost story on @zoe2dots_howe Rock 'n' Roll Witch podcast on @sohoradio Link in bio We talk about ghosts and ghost festivals, my #101GHoststory paintings and tell our own ghost stories. I talk about some of the amazing ghost researchers, mediums, artists and more I've worked with as part of the GHost Project since 2008. This photo is of a Hungry Ghost 'Gaki' sculpture by artist Miyuki Kasahara @miyukikasaharaart . She gave these away at a GHost exhibition. To take into your care, it was necessary to sign an agreement to feed the ghost. Find out what happens if you don't feed your Hungry Ghost on Zoe's Hallowe'en edition of her show. And do subscribe to her brilliant podcasts. #zoehowe #rocknrollwitch #ghoststory #ghoststories #hungryghosts #ghostmaking #GHostproject #sarahsparkes #miyukikasahara #chocolateeatingghost #Gaki #preta
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