Susan Meyerhoff Sharples

Profile:

As an established northwest based artist I continue my professional practice working to commissions and exhibitions, whilst employed as Artist Educator on the Family Education Team at the Tate Gallery Liverpool. I also undertake residencies and workshops within schools and colleges.
My work is concerned with evolution, provocative defence systems and the primal instinct for survival achieved via diversity and adaptation. Repetition is a constant element in the work.
I create hybrid sculptural forms exposing a glimpse of evolutionary fantasy, suggesting relationships between ancient organisms and their modern descendants. Their ambiguity reflects cultural, social and environmental concerns of identity, protection, genetic engineering and global warming. Viewed from a playful perspective, they transform a materials utilitarian functionality into mythical forms linking prehistoric with futuristic.
The work is executed through the appropriation of material and skills generally used within the construction, engineering and craft industries.

Recent Exhibitions / Commissions:

2008
Novas Gallery, Cultural Quarter, Liverpool
Bridges Not Walls, World Museum, Liverpool
Tidal, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn
Park Life, Birkenhead Park, Wirral
Soup@Redbill , Redbill Gallery, Wales
Mini Print exhibition, Artlink, Hull

2007
Source, Markmakers, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Journey, Movement, Place, Wolstenholme Square Gallery, Liverpool
Transmute, Artfinder Gallery, Liverpool
Pocket, Site Gallery, Liverpool
River Mersey, Markmakers, Castle Park, Cheshire
The Paint Warehouse, Academy of Arts, Liverpool
Markmakers, Heath Business Park, Runcorn
Square Route, Blackburne House, Liverpool

2006
Esquared, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway, Wales
Transmute, Liverpool Biennial, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Expressions, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn, Halton
Gift, Museum Man, Liverpool
Between Times, Shrew Collective, Woodside Ferry Terminal,Wirral
Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Private Commission, Lancelyn Green Sculpture Garden, Bebington
Esquared, Up Front Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria

2005
Cell, The Brasserie, Chester
You Don’t Have to Be a Genius, Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral
Private exhibition, Onset Gallery, Chester
Up Front Gallery, Cumbria
Private Collector, Alberta, Canada

Website & Contact:

Website: www.susanmeyerhoffsharples.com
Email: susanmeyerhoffsharples@hotmail.co.uk