I was born Melbourne, Australia into a family that encouraged creativity and making. In my family someone was always making something. From a young age, sewing and embroidery became my lifelong passion. Even though at times I pursued other paths, these paths spiralled: returning to and exploring themes related to the body. While I often I try to pare down and intellectualise my work, there is no denying the strongly decorative elements. In the last fifteen years I have been constructing machine embroidered textiles using soluble fabric to make lace-like structures. These structures are the vehicle for the narratives of life’s complexities.
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FORMAL EDUCATION:
2004 - 2009 PhD, Art History, Australian National University (ANU).
2003 Graduate Diploma in Curatorship and Art History, (ANU).
1992 – 1994 Masters of Arts (Visual Arts) School of the Art (ANU).
1976 – 1979 Diploma of Interior Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Messenger From the Garden Timeless Textiles, Newcastle Jul-Sept
2019 Still Waters Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT, December.
Lacing the Body Brunswick Street Galleries, VIC, February
2018 Birds Portraits Narek Galleries, Bermagui, NSW, Oct-Nov
Fragments Tears and Lace, Barometer Gallery, Paddington, April.
Death of a Craft, CraftACT: Craft and Design Centre, Feb.
2016 Shadow of Doubt Textiles Foyer Gallery, ANU, April -June
SMALL SPACE SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Hortus Conclusus Crucible Cabinet, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Feb.
2019 Quietly Waiting Alone Chutespace M16, ACT, March
2020 COVID-19 ONLINE EXHIBITIONS:
Flora (Instagram exhibition) Connection Arts Space (CAS), Dandenong VIC, Oct
Make the World Again http://maketheworldagain.net May 21
Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web Networks Australia ANCA (Australian National Capital Artists) Gallery April
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2020 The Secret Garden with Belinda Jessup, Gallery 76, Sydney, Sept.
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 reNEWal Altenburg & Co Gallery, Braidwood Mar-Apr
2020 Australia Wide Seven Belconnen Arts Centre, Oct
C/- CraftACT Craft and Design Centre, Oct-Nov.
AIR19 Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Mar-June.
Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web Networks Australia Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Feb- May.
Petite: Miniature Textiles Wangaratta Art Gallery June-Aug
2019 -Visionaries: Craft ACT 2019 Members Exhibition CraftACT: Craft and Design Centre, Sept.
-Tuggeranong Gardens (Community exhibition) Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT, Mar
2018 -Lure of the Local, Inner North Art Prize (Finalist), The Front, Nov.
-Thread Stitch Cloth, Embroiderers Guild of NSW, Sept.
-Place Makers Craft ACT Craft and Design Centre, Sept-Oct
-Trees: seeing, being with and listening to trees ANCA Gallery, Dickson, ACT, July-August.
-Petite Wangaratta Art Gallery, May-June.
-Threads Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC, Feb.
INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 -Stitched Art is Art The Clerkenwell Gallery, London, Nov.
- The 9th International Biennale Exhibition of Mini Textile Art “Scythia” Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine, May
- The 9th International Biennale Exhibition of Micro Textile Art “Scythia” Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine, May
2018 -Thread Bearing Witness, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester England
Sharon Peoples, Machine embroidery |
Sharon Peoples, Machine embroidery |
Sharon Peoples, Machine embroidery |
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