SHARP

• contact

• email : THEARTISTSHARP@gmail.com

• Education

• MA photography Manchester School of Art.

• BA Hons Visual Arts and Culture Salford University.

• Recent Awards

• 2024 Overall winner Award The Exeter Contemporary Open

• 2023 ACE PROJECT GRANT Solo exhibition From Flowers ( Dreaming of Lamorna )

• 2021 DYCP funding ACE.

Recent Exhibition and Residencies

9/ 2024. The Exeter Contemporary Open group show.

7/ 2024 Artist in residency Cornwall Heritage Trust commission of new soundscapes of heritage sites.

6/2024 ULTRAVIOLET queer exhibition group show Soho London Curated by Gemma Rolls Bentley and Guts Gallery Ell Pennick in collaboration with KKWEER arts. Exhibition featured works by biggest names in queer art such as, Maggi hambling, Ajamu, Olivia Sterling, Ebun Sodipo, Sadie lee.

• 2/2024 From Flowers (Dreaming of Lamorna) Solo exhibition Lamorna Cove village hall. The exhibition crosses time periods from growing up in Bradford West Yorkshire to living in Cornwall, exploring queer language and symbolism within my own personal archive of photography stemming from the 1980s that reflects on the isolation and impact of section 28 and the longing of a queer utopia.inspired by time on residency in Lamorna Cove whilst connecting with LGBTQ+ artists such as GLUCK, Marlow Moss and Ithell Colquhoun who came before and lived in Lamorna Cove.

• 6/2023 The Whitaker Museum, WINK WINK an LGBTQ+ exhibition showcasing sculpture , drawing, mixed media, textile, film and more. The selected artists include Harold Offeh, Ro Robertson, SHARP, Topher Campbell, Chester Tenneson, Jez Dolan, Derek Jarman, Rene Matić, Helen Cammock, Daniel Fountain, Sarah-Joy Ford, Garth Gratrix, Jenkin van Zyl, Trackie McLeod, Harry Clayton-Wright, Jacob Talkowski, Parham Ghalamdar, Sunil Gupta, Lothar Götz, Ally Rosenberg, Will Hughes, Rafal Zajko, Stuart Semple and Jonathan Baldock.

• 2/2023 We are Floating in Space Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange Penzance group exhibition.

• 7/2022 On Queer Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

• 3/2022 Theirs, Yours, Ours. Salford Art collection The New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, works acquired for collection.

• 03/2022 The Cornwall Workshop, week-long intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers based in Cornwall and the South West, organised by CAST and hosted at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula.

• 10/2021 Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange Penzance Cornwall, SEEN exhibition.

• 01/2020 Cartwright Hall Bradford , exhibition of Corroding towards Dusk Photographic work, acquired for permanent collection.

• Past 8 years selected

03/2019 Bury Art Museum DYKE Propaganda performance for PRINT Live

02/2019 Leeds Museum My Butch performance for lgbtq+ history month

2018 Artist in Resident 6 months at Undercliffe cemetery Bradford West Yorkshire, support by ACE project Grant

12/2018 The Gallery 78 in Reykjavik Iceland Queer Instructions photography exhibition

07/2018 Hebden Bridge arts festival sound sculpture SPEAKHER

01/2018 HOME Manchester Anti-Monumentalalism live performance

12/2017 HIVideo film "A Trace" for HIVideo A Global Exhibition of Video Art for World Aids Day.

08/2017 Queer Art Show 5: REVOKE- to invalidate, reclaim and reverse in the anniversary year of 50 years since partial decriminalisation of the homosexual act with the Sexual Offences Act 1967 .

07/2017 REVOLT The Penthouse Manchester, Queers against Facism Curated as part of Manifest 17 Supported by ACE Grants for the Arts 

05/2017 With-In Memoriam Todmorden Death Festival.

01/2017 Threshold performance VOID gallery Derry.

10/2016 Paradoxparadox HOME Manchester week residency.

9/2016 Might and Main The Penthouse Manchester. Exhibition, Residencies and symposium

“a project exploring the mechanisms and celebrating the outputs of the artist led- researching the importance of place and space to artistic production”.

5/2016 The People’s History Museum, Manchester

Live performance “ THE WORKER” in response to PHM archives of Artist Cliff Rowe works. 

3/2016 Live Art Bistro Leeds event "A-Wake.

07/2015 The Whitworth Gallery Manchester live performance “the river runs black”

07/2015 CFCCA (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art) new commissioned works performance ‘the river runs black" + live sound recordings drawings and booklet. in response to Micro Micro Revolution exhibition of taiwan art. exploring the power of art as a vehicle to address social change in Taiwan through three socially-engaged art projects:

03/2015  Manchester Art Gallery live performance “A dark mass”. ‘In Emergency Break Glass’ brings together the North’s best emerging female contemporary artists, performers & creatives to challenge the male-dominated artistic canon, respond to the gallery’s artworks and inspire attendees.

• Art positions

2024/2025 Kompas Lead artist and producer Cornwall Queer heritage project with Queer Kernow and Arts Council England. Highlighting the queer history of Cornwall and producing new art works for exhibition and site-specific.

2023 Freelance Creative producer for Change Cornwall Museum Partnership. Delivering Cornwall Councils Creative Manifesto in Inclusion and Diversity.

2019-2022. Programming Producer Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange

Working with Arts Council Collection for the National Partners programme with Sunderland Culture and Firstsight Colchester.

10/2018 - 05/2020 Sound Artist for the Oral history's project West Yorkshire Queer Stories.

“West Yorkshire Queer Stories is a Heritage Lottery-funded project”

01/2017 - 10/2018 Lead artist and curator Bill Drummond’s The Curfew Tower Cushendall Northen Ireland.

03/2016 - 10/2016  Lead artist of FREEHAUS Art School Llandudno.

Working with Cultural Action Llandudno (CALL) and Arts Council Wales. To develop a disused building in Llandudno and bring it back to life by creating a new hub of community creativity with a art school style learning and social space.

“Our vision is to take Llandudno and its “Lost Spaces”, disused /derelict buildings and plots of land and through thought provoking and exciting programming develop discussion which will ultimately lead to them being reimagined and revitalized in a way that benefits all.”