Sharon Quigley VPSSA

Website: http://www.sharonquigley.com

Email: sharon_quigley@yahoo.com

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Statement

As a visual artist I balance a self-directed studio practice with interdisciplinary collaboration and participatory engagement. I have undertaken many artistic residencies, research-driven projects and public art commissions. This has allowed me to develop and employ a wide range of skills in creativity and collaborative design, often working with musicians, drama practitioners, designers and makers, to create art in context. I have developed focused, co-creative projects, for a variety of arts organisations and have successfully delivered well-received public artworks, social and visual interventions within public spaces as well as within galleries and non-traditional art spaces.
In painting, the body; its multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, are main concerns. I use it as a framework to explore the subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. I create intricately patterned surfaces, fusing a myriad of cultural references from diagrammatic engravings, arabesques, micrographic reproductions and cellular structures, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlation that exists between them all. In recent work, scenes which invoke the natural world also reveal an anatomy of patterns that persist and endure throughout life.

Biography

Born
Stirling, Scotland
Studied
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee 1986 – 1990
B.A (Hons) Fine Art – Painting (First Class)
M.A European Fine Art, Barcelona, Winchester School of Art 1994 -1995
Awards
Hope Scott Trust Award (Publication) 2009
Edinburgh Printmakers Visiting Artists Printmaking Prize (SSA) 2008
Hope Scott Trust Award (Travel)1995
Royal Glasgow Institute Exhibitionship Prize 1994
Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award1993
James Guthrie Award for Painting 1991

Recent Residencies and Commissions
2016-2017 Wide Open, All Our Voices, Memory Bower, Inverclyde Royal Hospital
2016 Atlas Arts Dualachas Chroitearachd, Cultural Crofting
2016 Rohallion Psychiatric Unit, Murray Royal Hospital, Art in Healthcare
2015-2016 University of Stirling Art Collection- Anne Frank Trust Commission
2015-2016 Stirling Community Hospital Commission
2014-2015 Stirling District Asylum Records, Artist in Residence, University of Stirling Archive
2014 Atlas Arts Broadreach, Life on the Land, Artist in Residence, Taigh Chearsabaigh, North Uist
2013-2014 ‘The Words of Birds’, Children’s Spaces, Artist in Residence, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert
2012 ‘Orientation | Sonic adventures in Space’ Changing Room Gallery, Abrupt Encounters Residency


Collections
Art in Healthcare
University of Stirling Art Collection
Cardiology Department, Forth Valley Royal Hospital
Baillie Gifford Headquarters
Mastercard International
Royal Bank of Scotland
University of Dundee
International Centre for Cultural Development, India

CV

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