Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Biographical information
Born 1954 UK
Education
1979-81 Slade School of Fine Art, Higher Diploma in Fine Art
1977-79 Lanchester (Coventry) Polytechnic, B.A Hons Fine Art
1976-77 Brighton Polytechnic
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Stanza 251 Firenze Italia
2024 Meeting Points Benjamin Rhodes Arts London
2023 Sequenze Storiche Bottega d'Arte Savadori Pescia Italy
2021 Across Colour Cabinet Room Emma Hill Eagle London UK
2019 Three Works.org Scarborough UK
2015 Three Works.org Weymouth UK
2013 Colour in Place Palazzo del Podesta Pescia Italy
1995 Union Street Gallery, London
1993 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1991 British School at Rome, Italy
1990 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1990 Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1989 Chisenhale Gallery, London (with Tim Allen)
1989 Ferens Gallery, Hull (with Anna Miszewska)
1989 Todd Gallery, London (with Claire Scanlon)
Selected group exhibitions
2025 Contemporary Concrete EAGLE GALLERY EMH ARTS Turps Gallery London
2024 Moonlighting (a bit on the side) APT Gallery London
2024 The Nomenclature of Colours (online) Slade School of Fine Art
2023/24 STABLE Bobinska Brownlea New River London
2023 A Conversation of Colors Il Ridotto Stanza 251 Florence Italy
2023 APT NOW APT Gallery London
2023 Bending Space II EAGLE GALLERY EMH ARTS London
2023 COLOUR/PRINT/POETRY Slade School of Fine Art London
2022-23 Small is Beautiful XL Flowers Gallery London
2022 APT NOW APT Gallery London
2022 Quattro su Quattrocento Oratorio di Sant'Antonio Abate Pescia Italy
2022 COLOUR/STRUCTURE Thames-Side Gallery, London
2021-22 Small is Beautiful XXXIX Flowers Gallery, London
2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London
2021. COLOUR/COLLAGE/POETRY online exhibition Slade School of Fine Art London
2020-21 Small is Beautiful XXXVIII Flowers Gallery, London
2020 Royal Watercolour Society London
2019 Fully Awake Freeland Foundation London
2019 Playtime Arthouse1 LONDON
2019 Panel Paintings 3:Diptych Emma Hill Gallery, London UK
2019 Clyde Hopkins and friends, Linden Hall Studio, Deal UK
2019 Enough is Definitely Enough General Practice, Lincoln, UK
2018 Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition London
2017 entr'acte : intermission Abstract-Project, Paris
2017 The Surface of Things Paper Gallery Manchester
2017 The Mercus Collection The Mercus Barn, Mercus-Garrabet, France
2016 - 2017 Imperfect Reverse Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge UK
2016 Imperfect Reverse Camberwell Space Projects London UK
2016 Salon des Réalitiés Nouvelles Paris, France
2016 Summer Mix Turps Gallery, London
2016 Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, Paris France
2015 The Drawing Collective, ABSTRACT PROJECT , Paris, France
2015-16 borderlands-a painting survey, Albus 3 Arts, Northhampton UK
2015 The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
2015 Espace d'Art 32250 Fources, France
2015 Eye and Mind#1 The Mercus Barn, Mercus-Garrabet, France
2015 Detail, Usher Galler, Lincoln
2014 Detail, Transmission Gallery, London
2014 Detail, H Gallery, Bangkok
2014 Colour/Boundary, Slade Summer School, London
2014 Colour/Boundary, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne
2013 Unspecific Objects, Royal Standard, Liverpool
2012 Zombie Modernism, Malgras|Naudet Gallery, Manchester
2009 Mini Meta, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2009 Meta-Contemporary British Abstract Painting, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2009 Conversations in Painting, Chapman Gallery, Salford
2006 Transfer, Keith Talent Gallery, London
2005 Painting, Fabian Peake, Sharon Hall, Islington Mill Gallery, Salford
2004 Surface Connections, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2001 Les Parapluies de Manchester, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
1996-97 The Borrowed Image, Rochdale Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Centre Gallery, Sunderland Centre for Contemporary Art
Bibliography
2024 Instantloveland The Reenchantment of Painting : New Work by Sharon Hall
2024 Saturationpoint.org Laurence Noga review Meeting Points Benjamin Rhodes Arts London
2024 Meeting Points catalogue text Sacha Craddock Benjamin Rhodes Gallery London
2024 Meeting Points catalogue text Stuart Bradshaw Benjamin Rhodes Gallery London
2023 Conversations in Colour Il Ridotto Stanza 251 Florence
2023 Bending Space II Eagle Gallery EMH ARTS London saturationpont.org.uk
2022 colour/structure catalogue Thames -Side Gallery London
2020 The Diagonal:David Sweet with Sharon Hall David Sweet Turps Banana Magazine #22
2019 Playtime and Painting Kamini Vellodi catalogue essay for Playtime, Arthouse1, London UK
2019 Fully Awake catalogue Freelands Foundation, London
2019 Clyde Hopkins and Friends catalogue, Linden Hall Studios, Deal, UK
2019 Enough is Definitely Enough General Practice Lincoln UK
2017 Conversations at the Mercus Barn David Saunders and Michael Parsons
2017 Imperfect Reverse, exhibition review by Fiona Grady Saturationpoint.org
2016 Imperfect Reverse, symposium review, Frederic Anderson
2016 Imperfect Reverse, catalogue Laurence Noga UAL publication
2016 The Drawing Collective Paris #21Abstract Project
2015 Viewpoints, Saturationpoint.org
2015 Eye and Mind #2 catalogue text, The Mercus Barn, Mercus Garrabet, Midi Pyrenees,France
2015 Interview with Charley Peters www.saturationpoint.org.uk January 2015
2015 The Virtual Archive, From Absorb to Zoom : An Alphabet of Actions in the Women's Art Library project with Anne Krinsky
2014 Review of Detail, Oliver Zarandi East End Review, October 2014
2014 Review of Colour Boundary, Stephen Moonie, Abstract Critical, February
2014 Review of Colour Boundary,Rachel McDermot, Peel, January 2015
2014 Colour/Boundary Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne. Catalogue essay by David Sweet
2013 Review of Il Colore nei Luoghi (Colour in Place ) Palazzo del Podesta, Pescia, Italia EQUILIBRIARTE.NET, May 2013
2013 Colour in Place Palazzo del Podesta, Pescia, Italy. Catalogue essays by Stuart Bradshaw, David Ryan, translation Veronica Mulas
2009 Transitions/Abstractions, David Ryan, essay
2006 Transfer, critical text, Bernice Donszelman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, David Ryan
2005 Painting, Fabian Peake, Sharon Hall, Alistair Payne, catalogue essay, Islington Mill, Salford
2001 Les Parapluies de Manchester, David Sweet, catalogue essay, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
1995 Rose Jennings Time Out, review, June 1995
1995 Mark Durden, Art Monthly, November 1995
1995 The Borrowed Image, Amanda Farr, catalogue essay, Edinburgh City Centre Gallery
1995 Sacha Craddock, The Times, review, May 1995
1994 Tania Guha Time Out, review, February 1994
1993 Robert Clark The Guardian, review, July 1993
1993 Sue Platt Manchester City Life, review, June 1993
1993 Sacha Craddock, David Ryan, catalogue essays, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1991 Marina Engel, catalogue essay, British School at Rome Gallery
1991 Adrian Searle, Time Out, review, December 1991
1990 David Lillington Time Out, review, October 1990
1990 David Ryan, catalogue essay, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1990 Rose Jennings, City Limits, September 1990
1989 Kate Bush, Artscribe International, February 1989
1989 Stuart Bradshaw, catalogue essay, Ferens Gallery, Hull
1988 Sarah Kent, Time Out, June 1988
Awards
2024 The Shelagh Cluett Residency Varanasi at the Alice Boner House Varanasi India
2014 Arts Council of Great Britain (for Colour/Boundary Exhibition)
2011 Manchester Metropolitan University Research Award
2005/6 Manchester Metropolitan University Research Awards
1996 Visiting Critic, Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire
1990 Rome Award in Painting, The British School at Rome
1989 Picker Lectureship, Kingston University
1989 Greater London Arts Association Award
1986 Greater London Arts Association Award
1981 French Government Scholarship
1981 Jeremy Cubitt Painting Prize
1981 Sir James Knott Scholarship
Teaching
1990-2014 Head of Painting and Senior lecturer in painting Manchester School of Art
1987-1990 Senior Lecturer in painting Humberside University
1985-88 Part time lecturer in painting Wimbledon School of Art
Visiting lecturer at various UK art schools
Corporate and Public Collections
Barclays Bank, London UK
Prudential Collection, New Jersey, USA
Artsite, New York, USA
Heathrow Airport, London
2022