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Leith School of Art Exhibition Space 17 April 2023 - 09 June 2023 09:30 - 16:30 daily North Junction Street Campus

We are delighted to present a series of paintings by Edinburgh-based artist Sharon Quigley for our current Exhibition at our North Junction Street Campus!
As a visual artist Quigley balances interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement with a self-directed studio practice. She has undertaken a number of well received and successful research led arts projects, artist residencies, visual and public art commissions.
She regularly works co-creatively with a variety of artists, designers, makers and arts production companies, such as Round Table Projects, Wide Open, Atlas Arts, Project Ability, and Artlink Central.
Sharon studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee before completing an MA in European Fine Art in Barcelona and is the recipient of several awards including the W and Jay Gordon Smith Award for painting, The Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Exhibitionship Prize, The Jeffrey Orchar Award for Painting, SSA Edinburgh Printmakers’ Visiting Artists Award, and a two Hope Scott Awards.
She has work in a number of collections, both private and public, including the Bank of Montreal, University of Stirling’s Art Collection, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Mastercard, Art in Health Care, Baillie Gifford and The International Centre for Cultural Development in India.

 

Artist Statement

The body; its multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, are primary concerns in my work. I use it as a framework to explore the subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. I create intricately patterned surfaces, fusing a myriad of cultural references, from topographic and diagrammatic engravings,arabesques, micrographic reproductions and cellular structures, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlationthat exists between them. In recent paintings, scenes which invoke the natural world also reveal the anatomy of patterns which persist and endure throughout life.