Sharon Leahy-Clark

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Born: London
Lives: London

Education
1999-2001 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art, Painting
1996-1999 Middlesex University, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1995-1996 City Literary Institute, Foundation Art & Design
1983-1986 Polytechnic of North London, BSc (Hons) Sociology

Solo Exhibitions
2011
(Forthcoming) - 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe (solo show)

1999
Pissing to the Stars, Redgate Gallery, London (solo show)




Group Exhibitions
2010
RE:Animate, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire

2009
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group, Project Space (awarded Commendation)
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire

2008/9
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space (London), Summerfield Gallery (Cheltenham), Winchester Discovery Centre (Winchester), Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery (Suffolk), DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham
Artsway Open 2008, Lymington, Hants
British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge

2007
Celeste Art Prize 2007 (finalist), Truman Brewery, London and Lyon & Turnball, Edinburgh
Creekside Open (selected by Victoria Miro), APT Gallery, London

2006
Anonymous Drawings 3, Bluetenweiss, Berlin
Clothesline, ABC No Rio, New York

2005
Different Alphabets/Different Languages, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire
Margate Rocks, Margate, Kent

2004
Aftershock, 1A Space, Hong Kong
Faith, Transition Gallery, London
Faith, CAS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2002
Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
It's all in the Text, Stroud House Gallery, Gloucester
Core, MOT Gallery, London

2000
Truancy, Lime House Arts Foundation, London
Yip Yap Yip Yap, Cable Street, London

1996
Figuring Cezanne, Tate Britain and Lethaby Gallery, London



Grants/Awards
2001
Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize
TI Group Travel Award to Berlin

2000
TI Group Travel Award to Iceland

1999
TI Group Travel Award to Budapest

Collections:
The Drawing Gallery (Dr Yvonne Crossley)
British Airways collection
Redgate Gallery, London



Publications
4 November 2000, The Independent