Sharon Campbell
Manchester
Sharon Campbell is based in Manchester, recently having moved from Rogue Artists Studios, to Awol Studios, working in both the fields of contemporary visual art and architectural glass design: making sculpture, installation and interventions in gallery spaces and public settings (including public squares, social housing estates and building interiors).
Sharon explores the process of engaged lead arts practise, seeing where this journey will take her and the people she is working with. She makes connections between people, creating temporary communities both face to face and online. Motivated by the personal, everyday and the familiar, to create transformative work which speaks of a sense of place, identity and community.
Sharon is vastly experienced at working with people (in many different contexts), her process is playful and experimental, yet also engaging and accessible, about exploring narrative and turning conversations into something significant.
Highly skilled, her methods include a strong use of form and shape alongside sensitive responses to site and context. Drawing forms a core part of the process, informing design and construction, where fine line work and draughtsman-ship are highly characteristic. She integrates conceptual ideas with a keen understanding of the properties and characteristics of a range of materials including found objects, glass and textiles to create resonant meaningful sculptural work.
Sharon Campbell was part Sagar and Campbell a successful working collaborative partnership from 2005 - 2015:
Sharon continues to work in collaboration with artists and partners, starting an ongoing dialogue which balances approach and skill, opening up new and fabulous possibilities.
Sharon Campbell CV
2015/2016 The Treasure of Language
Project in development with Rachel Ramchurn, Chapel street primary school, Surestart and Friends of Fallowfield Loop.
2015 Heathlands Village ‘The Journeys of their People’
Commissioned architectural glass art work, The Fed, Manchester. A celebration of an organisation and the journeys its people have made. created with Lauren Sagar
2015 Footsteps in Time
Hideaway Youth Project Hulme and Moss Side. Celebrating an Award Winning Project and 50 years of great Youth work.
2012 - 2015 The Chandelier of Lost Earrings (Arts Council Funded) created with L Sagar
2012 Residency LimeArts, Central Manchester University Hospitals
Awards and Exhibitions - Chandelier Of Lost Earrings
2014 Wins Best Arts Project category of 2014 National Lottery Award
2015 Wins British Women's Artists award
2013 St Mary’s Maternity Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals
2014 Federation House, Manchester
2014 Towneley Hall Gallery, Burnley
2015 20:21 Gallery Scunthorpe
Currently Exhibited in 3 Piccadilly Place Manchester.
Touring with Wewioraprojects as part of The Tall Tales Narrative Project 2015 /2016, Glasgow, London and Rochdale.
2014 Chapel Street Totems. Commissioned school playground art work, Chapel Street Primary School Manchester. created with Lauren Sagar
2011 The Summerhouse Interventions
St Mary’s Maternity Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals with Lauren Sagar
2010 The Summer House
St Mary’s Maternity Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals
Commissioned by Central Manchester University Hospitals. Created with Lauren Sagar
2010 Making This Home
The Johnson Fold Estate, Bolton
Commissioned by Bolton At Home. Created with Lauren Sagar
2010 Arlington House Wall Piece
Arlington House, Camden Town, London
Commissioned by One Housing group. Created with Lauren Sagar
2008 The Ice Box
Piccadilly Place, Manchester
Commissioned by Argent, The Piccadilly Partnership (including The Carlyle Group) and Arts & Business. Created with Lauren Sagar
2006 Poetry Discs
Piccadilly Place, Manchester
Commissioned by Argent, The Piccadilly Partnership (including The Carlyle Group) and Arts & Business. Created with Lauren Sagar
Selected Articles
a-n magazine https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/manchesters-new-art-space-federation-house
https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/public-votes-for-chandelier-of-lost-earrings-sculpture-in-national-lottery-awards
Telegraph weekend review 21st September 2014 p. 19. Christopher Middleton
Arts Council http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/funded-projects/case-studies/chandelier-lost-earrings-lights-manchester-maternity-ward/
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