The deeply felt art of Lucy Sparrow

Over the past decade, Lucy Sparrow has owned an East London off-licence, a fresh food market in Florida and a sex shop in Soho. She’s had a stint as a surgeon, pushed a street-food cart in Bangkok, recreated the work of Old Masters, handed out medicine at her very own chemist and prepared a banquet for Queen Elizabeth II. She’s done all of this through the medium of felt – and in her most recent fabric installation, the artist has taken over Lyndsey Ingram gallery in London, where she set about replicating something distinctly British: a fish and chip shop.