Biog

My main website address is www.suzysharpe.co.uk 

Statement 

My practice is broadly based and includes painting, drawing, printmaking and installation. My interests are held together with an inescapable and continual attempt to create a dialogue around the human/animal relationship, against the backdrop of a society, in which the distance between them seems ever increasing. ​My Father was a butcher and I currently live and work in rural Cornwall where a variety of non human animals, including livestock, pets and wildlife punctuate my days and inspire my work. Issues relating to food, farming, wildlife, pet keeping and the effects that humans have on the environment are always at the for front of my mind and research.  Using my work as a vehicle I  explore, question and celebrate the relationships between humans, animals and the environment that we share.

Education

Master of Art (with Distinction) Illustration: Authorial Practice - Falmouth University
PGCE Plymouth University
BA Fine Art - Plymouth University

Projects & Employment

2014 Ghosts of Gone Birds Live Art Studio - Camden Migration Festival - London
2013 A Day for Nature – Stithians Reservoir
2012 Shortlisted for the BBC wildlife artist of the Year
2012 Truro Art week selected artist
2011 Newlyn Society of Artists elected committee member
2011 ‘Paint Magazine’ Article published
2011 Represented Winsor & Newton at BDC show London
2010/14 Artist in residence Royal Cornwall Show (Rare Breeds Survival Trust)
2010 Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists
2009 Selected as Winsor and Newton Featured Artist
2009 Cornwall Today Magazine – postcard from an artist July
2009 Cornwall Wildlife Trust – Inspired and Wild – Guest Artist assistant co-ordinator/curator
2009 Compassion in World Farming – images selected for Christmas Cards.
2008 Collaborative Project in association with Paul Hoskin for Longreach House mental Health Unit,
2010 – Present Part-Time lecturer (Painting, Drawing, Printmaking) Cornwall College BA Hons Contemporary Creative Practice

Exhibitions

2010 -14
Newlyn Society of Artists - Critics Choice - PZ Gallery
Fannie & Fox Gallery
Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery - Unit 11 - There's Hope Yet
Newlyn Society of Artists – Flux – Heseltine Gallery
Birds, Bugs and Beasts – Four Crows Gallery
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust – Slimbridge
A Day for Nature – Stithians Reservoir
Newlyn Society Of Artists – Helen Fieler Gallery
Nature in Art – Gloucester – The Wildlife Art Society International
The Fowey River Gallery – Fowey
The Old Customs House – Porthleven
Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery – Morvah
The Wonderwall Gallery – Cirencester

2007-10
Obsidian Art – Aylesbury
The Fowey River Gallery – Fowey,
The Wonderwall Gallery – Cirencester
The Rainy Day Gallery – The Little Picture Show – Pz
The Old Customs House, Porthleven,
Great Atlantic Gallery – Falmouth
Whistlefish Galleries, Milkwood Publishing at Spring Fair NEC
Cornwall Wildlife Trust Inspired & Wild guest Artist 2009 -11
Gallery 49 – Cows Week
Falmouth Art Gallery – Expressions in Humans and Animals
Delamore Gallery, Dartmoor
Over the Moon. – St Agnes
Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery – Morvah
Cornwall Crafts Association Trelowarren & Trelissick
Printmakers Gallery, St Ives
Creftow Gallery & Studios (co-operative member),
Helston Museum

2004-6
Response to Eden – Eden Project;
Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelissick and Trelowarren
Poetics of Material Eden Project.
You are here Sancreed House Sancreed,
West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, Treliske Hospital, Truro
The Bay Gallery, Penzance
Tri Arts Treliske Hospital, Truro,
By Hand Falmouth Art Centre,
Articulate Newlyn Art Gallery.


Other Exhibitions

2004 -2010 Cornwall Open Studios
2010 Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery
Falmouth Art Centre
Cornwall Farmers, Touring exhibition Truro, Penzance and Wadebridge
Plymouth University at Royal Cornwall Show
2008 Helston Museum; West Cornwall Hospital & Royal Cornwall Hospital
2007 West Cornwall Hospital; Helston Museum
2006 Royal Cornwall Hospital (Truro); Helston Museum
1997 Camborne School of Mines