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I’m an artist, writer and filmmaker working across textiles, film and live art. My practice explores themes of identity, mortality and memory, often through material processes like embroidery and jacquard weaving. I began in theatre and performance in the 1980s before moving into film, writing and directing features including AKA and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Alongside this, I’ve written for a range of publications and taught filmmaking at UCLA, where I supported emerging artists to develop their first projects. More recently, my work has shifted towards contemporary art and socially engaged practice. I completed a residency at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, exploring the shroud as both a cultural and material form, and I am currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. I’m particularly interested in collaboration, whether with communities, young people, or across disciplines, and my current projects bring together storytelling, craft and shared reflection around grief, care and lived experience.…I’m an artist, writer and filmmaker working across textiles, film and live art. My practice explores themes of identity, mortality and memory, often through material processes like embroidery and jacquard weaving. I began in theatre and performance in the 1980s before moving into film, writing and directing features including AKA and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Alongside this, I’ve written for a range of publications and taught filmmaking at UCLA, where I supported emerging artists to develop their first projects. More recently, my work has shifted towards contemporary art and socially engaged practice. I completed a residency at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, exploring the shroud as both a cultural and material form, and I am currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. I’m particularly interested in collaboration, whether with communities, young people, or across disciplines, and my current projects bring together storytelling, craft and shared reflection around grief, care and lived experience.

Duncan Paul Spark

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I’m an artist, writer and filmmaker working across textiles, film and live art. My practice explores themes of identity, mortality and memory, often through material processes like embroidery and jacquard weaving. I began in theatre and performance in the 1980s before moving into film, writing and directing features including AKA and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Alongside this, I’ve written for a range of publications and taught filmmaking at UCLA, where I supported emerging artists to develop their first projects. More recently, my work has shifted towards contemporary art and socially engaged practice. I completed a residency at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, exploring the shroud as both a cultural and material form, and I am currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. I’m particularly interested in collaboration, whether with communities, young people, or across disciplines, and my current projects bring together storytelling, craft and shared reflection around grief, care and lived experience.…I’m an artist, writer and filmmaker working across textiles, film and live art. My practice explores themes of identity, mortality and memory, often through material processes like embroidery and jacquard weaving. I began in theatre and performance in the 1980s before moving into film, writing and directing features including AKA and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Alongside this, I’ve written for a range of publications and taught filmmaking at UCLA, where I supported emerging artists to develop their first projects. More recently, my work has shifted towards contemporary art and socially engaged practice. I completed a residency at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, exploring the shroud as both a cultural and material form, and I am currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. I’m particularly interested in collaboration, whether with communities, young people, or across disciplines, and my current projects bring together storytelling, craft and shared reflection around grief, care and lived experience.

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I’m an artist, writer and filmmaker working across textiles, film and live art. My practice explores themes of identity, mortality and memory, often through material processes like embroidery and jacquard weaving. I began in theatre and performance in the 1980s before moving into film, writing and directing features including AKA and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Alongside this, I’ve written for a range of publications and taught filmmaking at UCLA, where I supported emerging artists to develop their first projects.

More recently, my work has shifted towards contemporary art and socially engaged practice. I completed a residency at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, exploring the shroud as both a cultural and material form, and I am currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. I’m particularly interested in collaboration, whether with communities, young people, or across disciplines, and my current projects bring together storytelling, craft and shared reflection around grief, care and lived experience.

Skills

Script

Set Design

Experience Level

Script

Expert

Set Design

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Performer/Devisor at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

January 1, 1983 - December 31, 1984

Performance piece Pornography: A Spectacle, devised with collaborators (Ivan Cartwright, Neil Bartlett, Robin Whitmore); UK tour to venues including ICA London and Toronto.

Writer/Director at Institute of Contemporary Art London

January 1, 1987 - December 31, 1987

The Host, produced for ICA London and shown at the National Review of Live Art Glasgow (with Georgia Byng and Tatiana Strauss).

Writer/Director at The Penny Theatre, Canterbury; Hen and Chickens Theatre, Islington

January 1, 1989 - December 31, 1989

Bad Baby, using local Kent performers; examined issues of child abuse using Beatrix Campbell’s Official Secrets as basis of the text.

Writer/Director at The Penny Theatre, Canterbury, Kent

January 1, 1990 - December 31, 1990

The Baron in the Trees, adapted from Italo Calvino’s novel for The Penny Theatre.

Writer/Director at Sadler’s Wells Theatre

January 1, 1991 - December 31, 1991

Copper’s Bottom, production featuring Aiden Shaw.

Co-writer at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Edinburgh Festival Fringe

January 1, 1993 - December 31, 1993

Call Me Susan explored prostitution across Europe via dramatized discussion with testimonies and images.

Cast/Writer at Channel Four

January 1, 1995 - December 31, 1995

Jackson: My Life... Your Fault (1995) – TV film; based on Spark’s Copper’s Bottom; cast includes Georgina Hale.

Cast/Writer at Channel Four

January 1, 1996 - December 31, 1996

Clancy's Kitchen (1996) – Channel Four; cast includes Mark Aiken, Indira Varma, Rocky Marshall, Sean Gilder, Nick Moran, David Walliams and Rose Gray.

Director/Writer at Spark's AKA (Film)

January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2002

AKA (2002) based on personal experiences; cast includes Diana Quick, Bill Nighy, Geoff Bell, Lindsay Coulson, Sean Gilder.

Director/Writer at The Picture of Dorian Gray

January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006

The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) – adaptation credit in Spark’s filmography.

Director/Writer at Method (Film)

January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004

Method (2004) – Spark’s film.

Director/Producer at Whitstable (Documentary)

January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011

Whitstable (2011) autobiographical documentary.