Sharon Thomas

FROM THE BIG SPLASH TO THE LAST SPLASH, TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON, 2023 ‘FROM THE BIG SPLASH TO THE LAST SPLASH’ Curated by @toby_messenger_ @terrace_gallery @patchworks.xyz PV 6-10pm Weds 15th March @patchworks.xyz 258 Church Road, London E10 7JQ A cross generational, DIY painting show in east London split down the middle – Glasgow, London and a…

‘Paint Talk’ Trongate 103 Gallery Space, Glasgow. Featuring: Daisy Richardson @daisymayarichardson and Sam Douglas @samdouglasstudio Michael Clarence @michaeljohnclarence and Olivia Irvine @oliviairvineart Sarah Grant @sfgrant and Ben Risk @benjaminrisk Sharon Thomas @sharonthomasart and Michael Antkowiak @mantkowiak #contemporarypainting #contemporarydrawing #contemporaryart #contemporarylandscapepainting #scottishpainting #scottishart #modernbritishart #modernpainting #americanlandscapes #landscapeart #landscape_painting_now #digitallandscape #contemporarypainting #glasgowart #gi2021 #modernpainters #londonpaintclub #toronto

Sharon Thomas: ‘Rural Rides’ Preview: Friday 3 September 6-9PM Artist Talk: Saturday 18 September 2pm ‘Rural Rides’ presents the work of artist Sharon Thomas, spanning the last 15 years, offering significant works made in New York during the troubled years of the early 2000’s to those made in recent years in Glasgow. Thomas’ work implementing…

Beyond Epilepsy is working with Glasgow Science Festival 2016 to ask whether a greater understanding of the brain has led to more understanding in society as a whole. This project. led by academic Rachel Hewitt aims to be a platform for artists, not only promoting disabilities, but also artists with disabilities. Beyond Epilepsy is a…

Mansfield, S., A Perfect Birthday, The Scotsman Weekend Life Magazine, 2014. p16-17   TURNING 21 is a traditional coming-of-age, for organisations as well as people. And if any proof were needed that Glasgow Women’s Library has reached maturity, one needs only to look through the pages of the 21 Revolutions, an ambitious collection of new work…

21 Revolutions on Edinburgh Art Festival website

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By Elizabeth McMeekin SHE is known as one of the most influential women in Glasgow in the early 20th century, became the first female Labour councillor in the city and tirelessly campaigned for the working classes. Friday 9 March 2012 Now Mary Barbour, who lived in Govan in the early 1900s, is to be celebrated…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17304237 A project celebrating the life and work of Mary Barbour has been launched as part of International Women’s Day. Barbour was a housewife who roused thousands of women to protest at steep rent increases for living in Glasgow tenements during WWI. Mary Barbour’s leadership was responsible for a new rent restriction law. She also…

The dry autumn leaves strewn on the floor of the North Wall Gallery, Summertown, have not been blown in by the wind. They are all part of the picture ‘Apotropaic’, by Sharon Thomas, which dominates the main wall.

A Review of by Gráinne Rice “And wherever you do, whatever you do, there’s always that damp little island called the past…” Many of the works in the Apotropaic exhibition were developed whilst Sharon Thomas was a Sainsbury Scholar at the British School in Rome (2005-06). As implied by Morrissey’s words (another ex-pat anglo in…

Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture, Dec 2008/Jan 2009 Ever since the Abstract Expressionists held forth at the Cedar Tavern in the 1950s, the unwritten rule has been that making art is a consuming obsession that leaves no time or space for worldly responsibilities like childrearing. Before the AbExers, an artist like Gaugin left…

WILLIAM COBBING, JUAN FORD, LAUREN LAVITT, STEVEN MacIVER, EAMON O´KANE, SARAH STEAD, SHARON THOMAS The British School at Rome via Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma tel. 06 3264939 http://www.bsr.ac.uk Opening: Thursday, 16 March 2006, 6.30-9.30 PM 17-25 March 2006, Monday-Saturday, 4.30-7.00 PM and by appointment info: finearts@bsrome.it The next exhibition of The British School at Rome…