Sharon Haward
Hastings
An interest in our physcial and psychologicicaI relationships to space is at the centre of my practice and I use objects and images to animate a space, arranging them according to site-specific cues.
The objects and images I create are primarily abstract but they suggest encountes with real things in the world, everyday objects, places and spaces. The aim is not to illustrate this experience or encounter but rather to configure fragments and surfaces to imply a physical and psychological relationship with them. Recent works feature arrangements of grids openings, printed and painted surfaces that suggest a combination of hard rational exteriors and softer folded interior spaces, Buildings to get wrapped up in perhaps.
An important part of my process in a thinking through making process which enables my ideas to grow and develop as I respond to the different concepts, materials and spaces in an instinctive way. Recent painted pieces have evolved through a kind of unplanned dances between structures, painted and sewn fragments and the creation of large impromptu fields of painting and collage. I am interested in exploring how these objects interact with the space they are shown in and allowing them to seep into the fabric of the site. They are of the space yet provide the viewer with a moment of doubt.
Education
2012 - University of Brighton MA Digital Media Arts
1981 - Newcastle University BA Hons Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Undone Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea
2018 Fold Rye Creative Centre
2016 Sense of Space Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
2014 Interruption Curious Project Space, Eastbourne
2010 An Experiment in Town Planning Monument Gallery, Southampton
2004 Remains Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone; Ramsgate Library Gallery; Cranbrook Library Gallery
2003 Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Group Exhibitions
2021 Gaining Ground Photohastings, Hastings Arts Forum
Processing Uncertainty Dirty Old gallery, Hastings
Traces Air Gallery [online]
2019 Between Skylight + Dust Hartslane Gallery, London
Im/material Bodies Sluice HQ, London and Rye Creative Centre, Rye
2018 Curiouser#9 Station Brussels Congres, Brussels
Every Story tells a Story OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading
2017 Decorating Dissidence Mile End Pavilion/Queen Mary University of London
2014 Whitstable Biennial Satellite film screening
Access Space Sheffield
Telling Stories Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
2013 Parade video screening Margate
Pneu Electro Studios Project Space, St.Leonards on Sea
2011 Instants Vidéo Poétiques video screening, Paris
2012 Feedback University of Brighton Gallery
2010 HopSkip Hackney Wick
2019 Circumnavigation Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne
2008 Anonymous Drawing Berlin
Signs of Life 1 Liverpool Biennial Fringe
2006 Karavan Gallery, Reigate
Breathe Crypt at St Mary in the Castle, Hastings
2003 Art in Romney Marsh St Mary the Virgin, St Mary in the Marsh
2002 Experimental Spaces Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings
Beaux Arts London
Prizes, Awards, Open Submission
2016 East Sussex Open (selectors Jenni Lomax, Melanie Manchot, Brian Cass)
2013 Barbican Arts Group Trust Open, London
2010 East Sussex Open
2003 Sussex Open
2002 Artsway Open
Residencies
2019 Process Space 29 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2018 Identity City of Dordrecht, Netherlands
2017 En Place Chateau de Sacy, France
2015 Atelier Austmarka, Norwary
2014 Making Space Fabrica, Brighton;
Sharing Space Eastbourne College, Eastbourne
2009 Reside:Résider Kent and Côte d’Opale (Dover Arts Development)
Runway The Creative Centre (an old school), Rye
2002 Experimental Spaces Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Commissions
2020 MuseeLab Sable-sur-Sarthe, France
2016 Alternate Legacies The Bridge, Hastings
2016 Peek The Space St.Leonards on Sea
2012 Seaside Hotel St Mary in the Castle, Hastings, Coastal Currents, curator Joanna Petkiewicz
2011 Interface de Brandwoeker, Oudenaarde, Belgium, curator Christine Gist
2011 Watchtower Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, Romney Marsh
2008 Eat photo project, Bridge Community Centre, Hastings
2005 Mortuary window design, Conquest Hospital, Hastings
2004 Art in Hospitals, window designs, Conquest Hospital, Hastings
Bibliography
2019 Decorating Dissidence (online journal) on Women Architects
2019 An Appointment at the End of the World zine, Manchester International Festival
2017 Road Trip Figure Ground Public Art
2016 What They didn't Teach You at Art School Ilex Press
2015 Time, space and heritage: site-specific art invades 19th century fort, Pippa Koszerek (a-n online)
2015 Mark Waugh Notes and slippages on the schizophrenia of the day
2010 Owen Hatherley (BD Online) Experiments in Town Planning
2008 MailOut (Dec/Jan) Ghost Town & Socially Engaged Practice
2006 a-n (March) Artists Projects Four Corners
Collections
London, Brighton, Brussels, Edinburgh, Oxford
Other Relevant work/Projects
2021 On Material Reciprocal Space, Artists in Conversation You Tube (British Council)
2015 Space Interrupted 3 site installation project (GfA) Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards; Limbo Art Space (electricity substation) Margate; Fort Brockhurst, Gosport
2010 Facade 2 site installation project (GfA) The Space, St. Leonards; Old Coach Park, Dover; Replay town centre interventions, Coastal Currents, Hastings
2009 Ghost Town outdoor installation (GfA) The Bridge, Hastings
2005 Four Corners installation in empty flat, (GfA) Farley Bank, Hastings
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