Sharon Peoples

Artist Statement

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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