Crafts CouncilDirectoryElena SparkeRose Perpetual (2022)AboutSelected for Wales Contemporary 2022. This miniature embodies universally relatable themes within a context of life's journey. I offer a poetic examination of memory, identity, nature's rhythms echoing our own, hope. Symbolic value of rose and book, fluidity and narrative potential of textiles, metaphoric use of gold, subvert the idea of preciousness. Most invaluable treasures are all around us, in the enduring beauty of nature, perpetuity of culture, the work of human hands and within us. Elena SparkeFarnham, EnglandRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Artist Book Textile SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual, Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual (2022)AboutSelected for Wales Contemporary 2022. This miniature embodies universally relatable themes within a context of life's journey. I offer a poetic examination of memory, identity, nature's rhythms echoing our own, hope. Symbolic value of rose and book, fluidity and narrative potential of textiles, metaphoric use of gold, subvert the idea of preciousness. Most invaluable treasures are all around us, in the enduring beauty of nature, perpetuity of culture, the work of human hands and within us. Elena SparkeFarnham, EnglandRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Artist Book Textile SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual (2022), Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureRose Perpetual, Image Copyright © Matthew Burch Photography Textile Artist Book SculptureMore from Elena SparkeProjectThe Book of Becoming (2020/2021) Assemblage of 6 textile book-sculptures: Roots, Fire Within, Manuscripts don’t Burn, Wonder, Tabula Rasa & Rosa Muse-Bookmark, Poesia.ProjectArchaeologies Installation: 6 textile sculptures Sumi, Nabrosok, Terra, Aurum, Inle, Voices (2021)Project'The Last Book' and 'The Book of All' (2022/23). Project'Insomnia' Wearable Art Cloth (2023)Project'Deeper than Language' (2024), Two Textile Artist BooksProject‘Tapestries of Time: Verdure Reimagined’ (2024), four narrative textile relief panels