Sharon Peoples: OPEN STUDIO

 

Open Studio 

10am-4pm

19 November 2022 

46 Miller Street 

O'Connor ACT 

Sharon Peoples Website

Tree Whispers exhibition opening

 

A Networks Australia members group exhibition. 

Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 14 October 2022

More information can be found on the Belconnen Arts Centre website

Image: 

Sharon Peoples, Grevillea Robusta Mandala. Image courtesy of the artist. 

Passages and Portals - Networks Australia exhibition

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Dotti Le Sage,  Frozen Garden with scapulae Photographer Fiona Bowring

Sharon Peoples, Maidenhair shovel and Maidenhair trowel  Photographer Fiona Bowring

Monique van Nieuwland, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Josie  Cosgrove, Deep Blue Eyes, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Rozalie Sherwood, Cry for Peace, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Gail Nichols, La Nina Deluge, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Angela Coleman, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Ann McMahon, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

 Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Passages and Portals 

September 9

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October 19 2022

Networks Australia is a group of practising visual artists, living and working in Australia. We work in all mediums including textiles, sculpture, photography, painting and drawing.

Our exhibition titled ‘Passages and Portals’ consists of artworks inspired by Australian poetry. Poems are often passages and portals, offering new ways of seeing our natural surroundings and life experiences. In this exhibition, each artist has interpreted an Australian poem visually.

The Networks artists have invited a group of local Grenfell poets to include their own poetry in the exhibition, addressing the themes of Passages and Portals. These poems will be displayed among the artworks in the gallery.

Grenfell Art Gallery

Propagate - Sharon Peoples and Nellie Peoples

Sharon Peoples, Gardening Trowels, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, photographer Brenton McGeachie.

Sharon Peoples, Garden Shovel: White Hakea, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, 94 x 22 x 4 cm, photographer Brenton McGeachie.

M16: Gallery 1 a

Nellie Peoples and Sharon Peoples

Friday 6 May - Sunday 22 May 2022

Propagate examines the everydayness, the labour and social relationships of gardens, through small works relating to the body and drawings. Sharon and Nellie Peoples each begin with dialogues between local landscapes and the practices as a maker. There are many complex processes that can be employed to increase the number of plants, as there are in these artists’ individual making practices. Propagate reflects the building of conversations within individual work, as well as each another. The artists exchange ideas as they would cuttings, seeds and root divisions from their gardens, as well as planting ideas into each another’s design thinking.

M16 Website

Art Textile Biennale 2020

Two of the Networks Australia members are exhibiting in this international exhibition. 

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery

03 April – 31 May 2021

East Gippsland Art Gallery 

22 January - 5 March 2021

Sharon Peoples 

Belinda Jessup

Wangaratta Petite Miniature Textiles exhibition

12 June -16 August | Gallery 1

JUNE – AUGUST

Petite Miniature Textiles 2020 exhibition is the 6th iteration of this popular and much loved event. Occurring biennially, this exhibition showcases the best small textile artworks from around the nation. This exhibition continues to grow in popularity with artists from around the country participating by creating contemporary textiles no larger than 30x30x30cm.

Petite has become a highlight of the gallery’s program and focus for contemporary textile art practitioners. A diverse array of techniques and themes explore everything from colour, texture and decoration to social, political and environmental issues, propelling textiles into the realm of the visual arts.

To celebrate the 2020 Petite exhibition the Wangaratta Art Gallery is proud to release this beautifully designed online catalogue that is guaranteed to delight and intrigue all of those who choose to explore. It will act as an important archive recording this year’s event, recording this unique time in history due to the COVID restrictions, but most importantly allowing access to all who are not able to visit the exhibition in person.

 Petite Miniature Textiles exhibition Website 

Online Exhibition Catalogue

(click on image to open catalogue) 

Tree Conversations: Digital Exhibition at ANCA Gallery Canberra

Tree Conversations: gallery view, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery 

Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web Digital Exhibition

Can trees talk? Are you listening? In Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web, Networks Australia share fresh insights into the world of trees. Providing audiences with thought provoking exhibitions since 2010, this group of artists from regional NSW and ACT present unique works in a diversity of mediums that will share secrets from the mysterious lives of our leafy companions.

Artists include: Ann McMahon, Belinda Jessup, Bev Moxon, Christine Appleby, Deb Faeyrglenn, Dotti Le Sage, Jenny Manning, Karyn Fearnside, Katherine White, Liz Perry, Marli Popple, Monique Van Nieuwland, Nancy Tingey, Ola Robertson, Rachel Devlin, Rozalie Sherwood, Sharon Peoples, Susan Hey and Wendy Dodd.

The digital version of this exhibition is presented in partnership with Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Photograph courtesy Brenton Mc Geachie.

Click here to access the ‘Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web’ catalogue.

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Still Waters - Sharon Peoples Artist Statement

Exhibition opened until 11 January 2020. Tuggeranong Arts Centre

Sharon Peoples 2019

Sharon Peoples 2019

Sharon Peoples 2019

Sharon Peoples 2019

Still Waters 

Sharon Peoples 

In January 2019 I spent four weeks as artist in residence at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. My project was to work on ideas about gardens in the area. The residency was a springboard for thinking and in subsequent months a new body of work was assembled.  It is not the terrestrial gardens that is the focus, rather other blooms that are the subject of Still Waters.  

Canberra is often seen as a city that is entirely designed with little organic growth, although that seems to be loosening, socially and design-wise. And perhaps in other unintended ways. Nature has its own way of indicating the limitation of design. The environment cannot be fully controlled.  

On my walks during the residency, I pondered the beautiful extensive landscapes at each turn in the path around the lake, admiring the designer’s skill at framing the water, hills and mountains. I revelled in the general quietness but was puzzled by the lack of interaction with the water during the peak of summer.  

The still waters of Lake Tuggeranong in the early Summer mornings are glorious. Becoming more familiar with the Lake during the residency, details caught my eye: the birds, the occasional dead fish, the water reflections, the plant life. I revelled in the general quietness with bird calls as a backdrop, until I realised the only interaction by humans with the Lake were two men who regularly motored a small boat to the top end of the Lake. 

I subsequently came upon an area of blue/green algae and quickly realised the connections behind the tranquillity and the inhibition of use. Blue/green algae has made it presence felt on the Lake. Its reverberation felt downstream no doubt. The organic growth of the city is perhaps not what was imagined.  

I later learned that the men were scientists and were checking the water readings in an effort to understand the source and typology of the toxic algae. A small area in the water was fenced off by rope with orange floats. Once they finished their work for the day silence returned.  

  

In the exhibition the larger lace works, which are machine embroidered, reflect fragility of the environment. For the smaller hand embroidered pieces, I use darn stitching as a metaphor for repair: repairing the environment. In these works, I particularly used cotton thread to link climate change with industrial crops, such as cotton. Layered within the use of the glass cases is the assistance glasses give to our vision. As well the ability to open and shut the cases at will.  

Sharon Peoples Website

Tuggeranong Arts Centre website 

Gallery 1

Tuggeranong Arts Centre
137 Reed Street, Greenway ACT

Sharon Peoples

Sharon Peoples

Still Waters Exhibition opening invitation

Still Waters Opening
Thursday 5 December 2019, 6pm
Tuggeranong Arts Centre

All Welcome

Sharon Peoples Website

Still Waters at Tuggeranong Arts Centre 

Sharon Peoples - Still Waters exhibition

Still Waters

5 December 2019 - 13 January 2020

Tuggeranong Arts Centre 

In January 2019, SharonPeoples spent four weeks as artist in residence at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. The residency was a springboard for thinking and in subsequent months a new body of work was assembled to create the exhibition, Still Waters.

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