Susan Meyerhoff Sharples
As an established northwest based artist I continue my professional practice working to commissions and exhibitions, whilst employed as Artist Educator on the Family Education Team at the Tate Gallery Liverpool. I also undertake residencies and workshops within schools and colleges.
My work is concerned with evolution, provocative defence systems and the primal instinct for survival achieved via diversity and adaptation. Repetition is a constant element in the work: repetition within diversity and diversity within repetition. I create hybrid sculptural forms exposing a glimpse of evolutionary fantasy, suggesting relationships between ancient organisms and their modern descendants. Their ambiguity reflects cultural, social and environmental concerns of identity, protection, genetic engineering and global warming. Viewed from a playful perspective, they transform a materials utilitarian functionality into mythical forms linking prehistoric with futuristic.
The work is executed through the appropriation of material and skills generally used within the construction, engineering and craft industries. email: susanmeyerhoffsharples@hotmail.co.uk
RECENT EXHIBITIONS / COMMISSIONS
2008
Pax08 The Womb Project, The Blackie, Liverpool
Liverpool International Artists, Novas CUC Gallery, Liverpool
Bridges Not Walls, World Museum, Liverpool
Tidal, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn
Park Life, Birkenhead Park, Wirral
Soup@Redbill , Redbill Gallery, Wales
Mini Print exhibition, Artlink, Hull
2007
Source, Markmakers, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Journey, Movement, Place, Wolstenholme Square Gallery, Liverpool
Transmute, Artfinder Gallery, Liverpool
Pocket, Site Gallery, Liverpool
River Mersey, Markmakers, Castle Park, Cheshire
The Paint Warehouse, Academy of Arts, Liverpool
Markmakers, Heath Business Park, Runcorn
Square Route, Blackburne House, Liverpool
EDUCATION
2005 Teaching Certificate of Education (part1), Wirral Metropolitan College, UK
2004 Fine Art Fellowship, Wirral Art School, Wirral, UK
2003 B.A.Hons. Fine Art (1st Class), John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
