Alison Sharkey
Alison Sharkey

Gallery

Total number of images: 3

Colonia II
  • Colonia II
Ruths
  • Ruths
Ruths
  • Ruths

Biography

Born 1973

EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Wastelands, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2009 The New Landscape, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
2008 Out of Bounds, The Exchange, one night event, Penzance
2008 Surface Gallery Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2008 MINED, Cornwall Mines & Engines, Cornwall
2008 Folded, Glued and Printed, Newlyn Art Gallery, Transitions Curators Edition, Cornwall
2007 Unity Wood, part of MORE, Cornwall
2007 Happidrome One, Goonhilly Nature Reserve, Cornwall
2007 Sound:Space – screen, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2006 Wheal Art Weekend, Wheal Frances, Cornwall
2006 Santa’s Secret £10 Tombola, Redruth, Cornwall
2006 Cornwall Open Studios, Falmouth Wharfs, Cornwall
2005 Wharf A Secret History, Falmouth Art Centre, Cornwall

OTHER PROJECTS

2007 Coordinator/curator, Unity Wood, Cornwall
2007 Steering committee member, MORE, Cornwall
2006 - present Coordinator, Cornwall Visual Arts Forum
2006 Coordinator/curator, Wheal Art Weekend, Cornwall
2005 - 2006 Group member, Level2 Artist Led Initiative, Cornwall
2005 – present Professional Development Guide, Creative Skills, Cornwall
2001 Commissioned artist, Balavanich Hospital, North Uist, Western Isles

EDUCATION

2002-2005 BA Fine Art, University College Falmouth, Cornwall
2001-2002 HND Art and Design, Lews Castle College, Western Isles
2000-2001 Foundation Gaelic Music and Language, Lews Castle College, Western Isles
1999- 2000 Diploma Art and Design, Lews Castle College, Western Isles
1992-1996 BA English, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

AWARDS

2005 Graduate Mentoring Scheme, University College Falmouth
2003 The Sail Loft Bursary, University College Falmouth
2005 Learning By Doing Grant, Creative Skills
2002 Millennium Travel Award

PUBLICATIONS
The Shape of Things to Come: A Bid for Manifesta in Cornwall, Axis, June 2009.
Folded, Glued and Printed, VOL2, 2008
British Archeology, May June 2007, p. 22- 27
a-n Magazine, September 2007, p.8
a-n Magazine, August 2007, p.26
Cornwall Today, July 2007, p. 105
Wheal Art Book, 2006

Contact Info

Alison Sharkey
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www.alisonsharkey.com