Sharon McKeown

Sharon is a visual artist based in Belfast. Her work focuses on collage through a range of mixed media. Working semi-abstractly, she layers successive ideas using the positives and negatives of collage creating an oneirically developing narrative. Nature and the human figure are recurrent in her work. While visually exploring the interior and exterior landscape she explores the idea of series through repetition of shape and form. Sharon is currently working towards developing and assembling a broad collection of mixed media works that are all underpinned by a simultaneous narrative.

Sharon McKeown (b.1994, N.Ireland) graduated from Ulster University, Belfast (2018) with a BFA(Hons) in painting. In addition to her degree she studied at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Finland (2017) where she had her first solo show Unknown Ventures. She is a member of The Drawing Journal, a collaborative art project investigating the materiality of and relationship between text and drawing.

Recent exhibitions include:

• Royale Arcade Academy, Arcade Studios, Belfast, 2023
• The Drawing Journal: Quiet Wanders Laughing, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo, 2023
• Displacement and Belonging – Home, Rua Red, Dublin, 2023
• Her latest solo show A Morning As Dark As Night took place at Platform Arts, Belfast, 2021.