CV of Sharon Walters (b 1975)
Education
2011 Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Fine Art Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts 2004 Fine Art Foundation Central Saint Martins
1997 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Social Sciences, Thames Valley University
Awards
2023 Second Place Mosaic Art Prize, Ares Management, exhibited Hauser & Wirth 2019 First Prize Reach Art Prize, Art for Youth London, exhibited at the Mall Galleries
Fellowships, Residencies and Commissions
2024-2025 Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum
2023 Vault Residency, Arthouse, Lagos
2022- ‘Seeing Ourselves’ Podcast Commission and Events National Maritime Museum 2022 Private Artist Residency, Sommerset
“Eric and Jessica Huntley” - Commission and acquisition for the National Portrait Gallery
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘Seeing Ourselves’, HackelBury, London, United Kingdom
2022 ‘Sharon Walters: Seeing Ourselves’ Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England Group Exhibitions
2024 “Eric and Jessica Huntley” on Display, National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Portraits, Landscapes, Abstractions’ HackelBury, London
AIPAD Booth A08, HackelBury, New York
‘Floating in Place’, Gallery Affinity, Lagos, Nigeria 2023 ‘Rites of Passage’, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
‘Like Paradise’ curated by Ekow Eshun Claridge's ArtSpace, London
‘Black Atlantic’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2022 ‘The Spaces In Between’ W1 Curates, London
2021/22 ‘The Friendly Forest’, The Show Windows, Coventry, The Midlands 2021 ITV Creates, Nationwide TV
2020 Black Minds Matter, Tea Art Gallery, London
2019 Gunnersbury Park Museum, London
Common Threads’, NOW Gallery, London
2018 Lifedeathspiritflesh, Contemporary Collage International Group Show, Hundred
Years Gallery, London
2010 ‘Root to the Fruit’, Heritage Lottery Fund project
Projects:
Community Engagement:
2022 Artist Mentor, Tate
2016-2019 Community Engagement Curator and Public Programmes Curator, Gunnersbury Park Museum
2002-2019 Acton Park Play and Leisure Events (APPLE) arts charity 2016-2017 Art tutor, Feltham Young Offenders Institution
Open Ealing 2013 E.A.S.E
2011 Arts Facilitator, Family Workshops, The British Museum
2010-2011 Lead Curator: year-long, intergenerational Black History project, including
collaborative project with James Barnor. Heritage Lottery Fund 2010 ‘Root to the Fruit’, Heritage Lottery Fund Project
Selected Press
2024 Shepherd, Jacqueline “London Nightlife with Jacqueline Shepherd” BBC Sounds, 29 May 2024
Steer, Emily “Art insiders share their favorite routes ahead of London Gallery Weekend” ArtBasel, May 10, 2024
Campbell, Albertina “Sharon Walters: Seeing Ourselves At HackelBury Fine Art” FAD Magazine, 25 May 2024
Shepherd, Jacqueline “London Nightlife with Jacqueline Shepherd” BBC Sounds, 24
January 2024
2022 Oshin, Péjú “Spotlight: Collage Artist Sharon Walters” The Wick, 05 October 2022
Aesthetica, “Alternative Narratives of Empowerment”, Aesthetica, 31 May 2022
TalkArt “Sharon Walters” TalkArt, Season 12 Ep 17, 22 April 2022
2021 Grazia “New Ways Of Seeing: Sharon Walters On Under-Representation Through
Collage” Grazia, Issue 10
Wint, Rebecca “How This London Artist Explores and Reclaims Power Through Her Art” IDEO, November, 2020
Gannon, Emma“Sharon Walters Art As Therapy” Ctrl Alt Delete Episode 291, October 2020
2020 Latouche, Deborah “Where do we go from here?” Millionair Magazine, August/September Issue 2020, pp 208 - 2011
Entwistle, Lauren “The Immersive and Therapeutic Power of Art” The Temper, July
2020
2018 “Sharon Walters, Seeing Ourselves” Fearless Femme Magazine, October 2018
Public Collections
2023 Soho House, High Road House, London National Portrait Gallery, London
2022 Soho House, Soho Works- Shoreditch, London 2020 Soho House, 180 The Strand, London