Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Sculpture
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples
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email:
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susanmeyerhoffsharples@hotmail.co.uk |
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www:
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www.susanmeyerhoffsharples.com | |
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Qualifications: BA(Hons) Fine Art
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statement:
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As an established northwest based artist Susan continues her professional practice working to commissions and exhibitions, whilst employed as Artist Educator on the Family Education Team at the Tate Gallery Liverpool. She undertakes residencies and workshops within schools and colleges.
Susan’s 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. She creates 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 and genetic engineering. Viewed from a playful perspective, they transform a materials utilitarian functionality into mythical forms linking prehistoric with futuristic. Her current work, ‘Cultural Crossings’ series explores the evolution of multiculturalism from its most primitive origins to its modern manifestations. It embodies the idea that culture is learned as a member of a community, an evolutionary process and is a product of an arbitrary historical experience of a people, it adapts and mutates as our environment changes. Indigenous people and art emerge from complex layered histories reflecting many cultural interactions. Culture reveals unique differences between peoples, but equally reveals their similarities that are part of our human heritage. |
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exhibitions:
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2008 Liverpool International Artists, Novas Gallery, Cultural Quarter, Liverpool The Enlightenment, The Blackie, Liverpool Mount Pleasant Gardens, Cheshire 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 2006 Esquared, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway, Wales Transmute, Liverpool Biennial, Albert Dock, Liverpool Expressions, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn, Halton Between Times, Shrew Collective, Woodside Ferry Terminal, Wirral Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool Private Commission, Lancelyn Green Sculpture Garden, Bebington Esquared, Up Front Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria 2005 Cell, The Brasserie, Chester You Don’t Have to Be a Genius, Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral Onset Gallery, Chester Up Front Gallery, Cumbria Private Collector, Alberta, Canada 2004 Journeys, River City Artists, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Private Commission, Lancelyn Green Sculpture Garden,Bebington Mainartery Gallery, Chester Private Collector, Alberta, Canada Consequences, Up Front Gallery, Cumbria 2003 The Women’s Hospital, Liverpool Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Wirral Private Collector, Toronto, Canada Germinate, Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool Grosvenor Museum, Chester Time and Place, Up Front Gallery, Cumbria Speke Hall, Merseyside 2002 International Centre, Harrogate Royal Liver Buildings, Liverpool Up Front Gallery, Cumbria Exit X, Jump Ship Rat, Liverpool 2001 Black Sheep Gallery, Hawarden, Wales Progressions, Grosvenor Museum, Chester Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral Yale Memorial Gallery, Wrexham, Wales 2000 Drumcroon, Wigan Layers of Meaning,The Gateway, Shrewsbury Crosby Hall, Sefton 1999 Simmonscourt , Dublin, Eire Private collector, Chicago, USA Tatton Park, Cheshire International Centre, Harrogate Blackthorn Gallery, Wirral Alexandra Palace, London |
gallery
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all images are copyright the artist unless otherwise stated
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Culture – silicone |
Nature’s Breeze- stainless steel |
Mutabilis – copper,mixed media | Vision and Contemplation- stainless steel |
State of AmbiguityVI – mixed media | Wrotan II – copper |