From the exhibition 2024 Members Exhibition
Year: 2024
Material: Mixed media, hand embroidery
Dimensions: 31 x 17 x 4 cm
About the Maker: Sharon Peoples has worked as an artist in Canberra for over 25 years, exhibition nationally and internationally as well as taking on commissioned work. In 1994 she completed a Master of Visual Arts at ANU, a graduate diploma in Curatorship and Art History at ANU (2004) and then graduated with a PHD in 2009 in Art History, writing a thesis on gender and fashion theory. In 2016 she picked up the threads of her visual arts practice and her work focuses on both hand and machine embroidery.
She has had eleven solo exhibitions since 2010, the most recent were From the Highest Tree, Avid Gallery, Wellington NZ, Working the Garden (2023) at the Southern Highlands Art Collective and Messenger from the Garden (2020) at Timeless Textiles in Newcastle. Sharon has participated in over 20 group exhibitions – the highlights being the latest Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Award (2022) at the Australian Design Centre, Sydney, Surface and Depth (at the Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome 2021) and Stitched Art is Art both with the SEW (Society for Embroidered Art), the Art Textiles Biennale (2021) at the East Gippsland Art Gallery and the Australian Fibre Art Award (2021) at Gallery 76 in Sydney.
Photo: Tim Bean
