Based at the Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
Recipient of several awards including: Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize. Work in collections including British Airways and The Drawing Gallery.
Education:
1999-2001 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art Painting
1996-99 Middlesex University, BA Hons (1st class) Fine Art
1983-86 Polytechnic of North London, BSc Hons (2:1) Sociology.
Websites: www.sharonleahy-clark.com / artitious.com/artist/sharon-leahy-clark/
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Forthcoming: Solo show at 303 Projects
2023 Head on a Plate Projects, 303 Projects, Lowestoft
2022 Head on a Plate Projects, Centre for Recent Drawing, live drawing event
2022 Head on a Plate Projects, Fitzrovia Gallery, live drawing event
2019 Rolling the Rock, Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD), Islington, London
2017 Not afraid of the dark, Paper Gallery, Manchester
2013 Sailing to Byzantium, Godfrey Pilkington Art Gallery, St Helens, Merseyside
2012 Theatre of the Charmed, Westminster Reference Library, London
2011 The Three-Cornered World, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2023 Carnevale, Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, London
2023 Home, The Green Door Gallery, Brussels
2023 Don’t Look Back, Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, London
2023 197th Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2023 A Little Closer, Aleph Contemporary, The Bindery, London
2023 Royal Cambrian Open, Conwy Wales.
2023 Champs Noir, Terrace Gallery, London
2023 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2022 Like a slight hiccup, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Les-Reims, France
2022 Small Things With Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London
2022 Give Or Take, Centre For Recent Drawing, London (Exhibitor and Curator)
2022 Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy, Wales
2021 Lido Stores Open, Margate
2021 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
2021 Thank you, and I mean that very, very sincerely, 303 Projects Lowestoft
2021 Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy, Wales
2020 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2020 Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London
2019 Royal West of England Academy Open 167, Bristol
2019 Speed of Thought, Newington Gallery, London
2018 Caroming, C4RD, London
2017 Like the Lines of a Hand, Paper Gallery, Manchester and touring
2017 The Sense of Things, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, California
2017 Between Things, Minories Gallery, Colchester
2017 Summer Salon, Luborimov/Angus Hughes Gallery, London
2016 Freeze for Frieze, Project for Frieze Week with Moncler and Purple PR, London
2016 Sixty, Luborimov/Angus Hughes Gallery, London and Art-Athina, Greece
2016 Tender and Cruel, Vacuous Gallery, London
2015 The Functionality of Thought, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, Yorkshire and touring
2014 Oriel Davies Open 2014, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
2014 New Mills ArtFEST 2014, (commissioned artist) New Mills, Derbyshire
2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013 (touring)
2013 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013, Jerwood Space, London and touring
2013 Derwent Drawing Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2013 Sunday Times Watercolour Prize, Mall Galleries, London and touring
2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Project Space, London
2013 Ludlow Open, The Harley Centre, Ludlow, Herefordshire
2013 Neo:artprize 2013, neo:gallery22, Bolton
2012 Ludlow Open, Millichope Gallery, Ludlow, Herefordshire
2010 Re-animate, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
2010 Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire
2009 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group, Project Space, London (awarded Commendation)
2009 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2009 Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire
2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize - Jerwood Space, London and touring
2008 Artsway Open 2008, Artsway Lymington, Hants
2008 British Glass Biennale 2008, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
2007 Celeste Painting Prize 2007 (finalist), Truman Brewery, London and Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh
2007 Creekside Open (selected by Victoria Miro), APT Gallery, London
2005 Different Alphabets/Different Languages, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire
2004 Aftershock 1A Space, Hong Kong
2004 Faith, Transition Gallery, London and CAS Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2002 Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
2002 Core, MOT Gallery, London
1996 Figuring Cezanne, Tate Britain and Lethaby Gallery, London
Art Fairs/Projects/residencies
2017 Manchester Contemporary, UK
2016 Freeze for Frieze, Moncler, Old Bond Street, London (Project with Purple PR)
2016 Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 SIXTY, Art-Athina, Greece
2016 Art Dubai, UAE (RCA Secret, Project)
2015 Sluice, London
2015 London Art Fair
2015 KÖLNER LISTE, Cologne
2014 Exchange Rates, New York
2014 Manchester Contemporary, UK
2014 Affordable Art Fair, London, (Project Space with Paper Gallery)
2014 Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland (residency)