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Sharon Magill is an artist whose work explores the fragilities and strengths of self and nature. Empowered by her past Sharon’s practice draws on the relationship between the body as isolated self and as connected with others. Engaging intuitively with natural materials and place Sharon creates a dialogic exchange to explore new meaning.
Sharon works with a variety of media and processes including cyanotype printing, digital video, sound and photography, drawing and painting. Working with others (artists and the public) is an important aspect of her practice. Through participatory and collaborative projects and workshops Sharon invites an openness of exchange and culture of sharing.
As an English born artist living in Wales and with Irish heritage her research engages with identity and migration. The contrasting themes of known and unknown, absence and presence, connection and disconnection are embedded in this practice as she develops a biographical visual narrative. Sharon’s work is increasingly concerned with the environment and climate change, as she develops a balanced and respectful relationship with nature through working with and in the natural environment.
Born: Luton, England
Lives: Cardiff, Wales
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Sharon Magill is an artist whose work explores the fragilities and strengths of self and nature. Empowered by her past Sharon’s practice draws on the relationship between the body as isolated self and as connected with others. Engaging intuitively with natural materials and place Sharon creates a dialogic exchange to explore new meaning.
Sharon works with a variety of media and processes including cyanotype printing, digital video, sound and photography, drawing and painting. Working with others (artists and the public) is an important aspect of her practice. Through participatory and collaborative projects and workshops Sharon invites an openness of exchange and culture of sharing.
As an English born artist living in Wales and with Irish heritage her research engages with identity and migration. The contrasting themes of known and unknown, absence and presence, connection and disconnection are embedded in this practice as she develops a biographical visual narrative. Sharon’s work is increasingly concerned with the environment and climate change, as she develops a balanced and respectful relationship with nature through working with and in the natural environment.
Born: Luton, England
Lives: Cardiff, Wales
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2020: Here I Am, curated open exhibition, Art in the Attic, Porth, Rhondda
- 2019: Every time I see this bench I think of you, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024: Pressed and Pulled, Printmaking from The Yard, The George Gallery, Newnham on Severn
- 2023: Resilience, Spring open exhibition, Cardiff MADE, Cardiff
- 2022: Finding – A Shared Walk, Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare
- 2021: Shared Walk: Lost?, Redhouse Cymru, Merthyr Tydfil
- 2021: Without Borders, 1SSUE, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (touring internationally)
- 2021: Ode to Anna, Phrame Wales, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran
- 2021: Shared Walk: Pulling Apart Together, Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare
- 2019 – 2020: The Art of Regeneration, Oriel y Bont, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2019 – 2020: International Print 2019, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
- 2019: Film commission for The Periodic Table: A Sculptural Installation by Nigel Talbot, Oriel y Bont, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2019: Journeys C to C, Shared Walk group exhibition, Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare
- 2019: Journeys: A to C, Shared Walk group exhibition, Cwtsh Community and Arts Centre, Newport
- 2019: 1SSUE International, group exhibition, Oriel y Bont, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2019: Interior Monologues, group exhibition, Oriel y Bont, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2018: A Shared Walk, group exhibition, Art in the Attic, Porth
- 2017: Un-Credited Woman, Women’s Arts Association Group Exhibition, Llanover Hall, Cardiff
- 2017: A Shared Walk, The Old Laundry, Braeval Street, Made in Roath
- 2016: MA degree show, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2016: Ystrad Stories, co-curated exhibition of community stories, Oriel y Bont, Treforest, University of South Wales
- 2016: Emerge II, group exhibition, Art in the Attic, Porth
- 2016: Emerge, group exhibition, Little Man Coffee Company, Cardiff
