Artist Statement

ARTIST STATEMENT

SHARP

They/She

Im a queer working class socially engaged artist, activist, producer whose interdisciplinary approach moves between experimental video, photography, sculpture, and sound installations. while researching and exploring the human condition through a queer lens. With works that deal with issues around gender,sexuality,and social commentary. Themes of works within this have included Death,loss,illness,memories,time,displacement, isolation and ways of remembrance from a personal perspective as well as a collective experience.

Photography has been a vital tool in documenting sub culture, LGBTQIA+ life and for mapping changes in how Queer people identify and relate to each other and the world.

My works stem from photography and an extensive archive of imagery that dates back to the 80’s, from this anchor point I’ve expanded into video, installation and sculptural intervention as a means to occupy space.

My works originate from a vital urge to document my own life, my butch identity and the spaces around me be they domestic or out in the natural landscape in order to take over and illuminate the shadow left by section 28 and provide an inter-generational connection with repetitions in histories that continue to infringe on the liberties of LGBTQIA+ people

I have works held in national public and private collections and have recently exhibited in The Drafts, Devonshire Collective Eastbourne, On Queer Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Ultraviolet Soho London, Plant Dreaming Leeds Art Gallery, Back in the Pink Bradford City of Culture, FLAMM arts festival Bodmin, Mirrors: Reflecting on Identity, Falmouth Art Gallery. Cartographies of Care: Women/Land/Art Southcombe Barn, She Sells Seashells, Alice Austin House Staten Island New York. 

i was the overall winner of The Exeter Contemporary Open 2024 

ive just become one of the Custodians of To Moor The Sun a new DYKELAND Land art community project in West Penwith Cornwall, The land was first est 1996 has the women’s lands by a group of lesbians. The land as since been neglected and as been gifted to Decoder cic a QUEER art organisation to reawaken.

Currently raising funds for our new project To Moor The Sun a reawakening of the women’s land in Cornwall

Find out more and crowdfunder thank you for your support

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