Education:

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography), La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Workshops and community outreach

Sharon has conducted ‘writing your life’ workshops and floral brooch making workshops.

As well she has mentored young visual artists for local community groups.

Solo and Joint Exhibitions.

2023 Commissioned to exhibit work as part of the Castlemaine State Festival at #Buda Castlemaine.
2023. Climate Resilience, group show. Exhibit B, Bendigo.
2023. Castlemaine Market Building sunmer show.
2022 Kinetic Kennington commission. Commissioned by The City of Greater Bendigo, this outdoor exhibition featured art that moves from five professional artists. Sharon’s work featured large cotton banners with beautiful imagery of the local wildflowers of the region. At 1 metre x 3 metres these banners were hung amongst the gum trees that surround the Kennington reservoir.
2022 Over the Horizon, The Old Auction House Kyneton.
2021 Exhibited My Health Story, Bendigo hospital Oncology ward, Dec 2021 to Jan 2022
2021 My Health Story, The Capital, Bendigo.
2021 Space, Dudley House Bendigo. Group show with 4 other local artists, each exploring how the term Space meant to them, October 2021. Sponsored by The City of Greater Bendigo.
Castlemaine Market Art summer exhibition
Bendarts Group Show, Dudley House, Bendigo.
St John of God group show
Castlemaine Market Art winter exhibition
2020 Central Victorians Remember :WW1 War Memorials, Bendigo, Mount Alexander and Loddon shire. Permanent exhibition Bendigo RSL Museum, Pall Mall Bendigo.
2019/2020 Castlemaine Summer Market exhibition
2014 : Imagining Mum, beautifully installed at the Mildura Arts Centre. The opening was on Mother’s day where Sharon photographed mothers and their families on the day.
2019 Natural Connections, Artist and Co-ordinator, group show, supported by the City of Greater Bendigo and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.
2019 Colab,BENDIGO, group show
2019 Write unto art Trail, group show, HEATHCOTE
2019 Gallery 22 upstairs group show, Castlemaine
2019 A4 Contemporary Art Show, Melbourne
2018 & 2019 Small works from a big place, travelling exhibition.
2019 Co.lab with poet Tru Dowling
Write unto Art , two pieces, one wearable art piece, one poem in response to Elaine van Dyk’s painting.
2019 Contemporary Art Society brooch show, Melbourne