Based in Glasgow, Sharon is an artist whose teaching experience includes Undergraduate Fine Art Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art specialised in Life room and Drawing and Painting practices, Strathclyde University and Glasgow University Lifelong Learning programme.

After graduating from GSA in 2001 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting, Sharon secured the Villore Scholarship to complete her MFA specialised in Painting at the New York Academy, graduating in 2004. She is recipient of the New York of Academy International Council Travel Award.

Being awarded a Sainsbury scholarship in 2005, Sharon was able to develop her studio practice in Italy at the British School of Rome.

Thomas’ drawings and paintings have been invited for exhibitions across Europe and the U.S, including locations such as Spike Gallery, New York; Museet for Religiøs kunst, Denmark; Mandrake Gallery, Los Cruces, New Mexico and more locally at Glasgow International, Collective Gallery and RSA, Edinburgh.

As a figurative painter Sharon’s studio practice explores societal power structures, using old master techniques and media such as oil and egg tempera.  Often collaborating with other painters and writers, Sharon’s work offers a contemporary feminist perspective on the politics of art making today and its relationship with art practices of the past.

Sharon’s commissioned projects have included documentation of prominent Scottish women in paint and print media, one example being the 2018 installation of the Mary Barbour statue in Govan, Glasgow, led by her 2011 proposal etching supported by Glasgow Women’s Library, to honour the leader of the 1915 Rent Strikes.