Sharon Maher

Native to Navan, County Meath, Sharon studied for her National Diploma at Sligo Institute of Technology. After graduating in 1992, Sharon travelled to Portugal to study ceramics. She lived and worked there for four years and on her return home continued her education to complete a BA (Honours Degree) in Fine Art in 1999. She worked in the Signal Arts Centre in Bray for two years and is currently a teacher and Resource person Youthreach Progression where she manages the centre and teaches QQI level 5 Art Subjects.

“I work in all mediums from oils and acrylics to glue and household paints. I paint, sculpt, Batik, print and also work in Ceramics.  I do a lot of community arts projects from painting murals, building parade floats or giant puppets to social issue projects. I don’t like to put a label on myself but if I did I would be an abstract expressionist with a sense of realism.  I am more concerned with the process than the end result and most of my work has no lines in it where the colour creates the illusion of lines.  I love doing community arts projects where I use art to cross cultural boundaries and I believe art is for everyone not to be kept in ivory towers.”

 

 

Previous Exhibitions

2018

Group Show – Inside Out – Meath Arts Group Exhibition The Atrium, Trim
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Surveyor exhibition – Solstice
Meath Arts Group Pop-up Exhibition
Navan Shopping Centre
Newgrange visitors center

2017

Group Show – Ebb & Flow: an exhibition of new work by Meath Arts Group, Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne
Meath Arts Group Exhibition -The Atrium, Trim
Hinterland Festival, Kells
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Group Show –Newgrange Visitors Centre

2016
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Surveyor exhibition – Solstice
Meath Arts Group Pop-up Exhibition, Navan Shopping Centre

2015

Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Surveyor exhibition – Solstice
Meath Arts Group Pop-up Exhibition, Navan Shopping Centre

2014
Culture night -Bray
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

2013
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Surveyor exhibition – Solstice
Meath Arts Group Pop-up Exhibition, Navan Shopping Centre
Group Show – Newgrange Visitors Centre

2012 Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Surveyor exhibition – Solstice
Meath Arts Group Pop-up Exhibition, Navan Shopping Centre
Group Show – Newgrange Visitors Centre

2011
Group Show – Idireadra, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath

2010
Group Show – Arts Trail, Trimgate Street, Navan, County Meath

2009
Joint Show with Martina Auzzi, Backroom, The Lantern, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – When I Close My Eyes, Toradh Gallery, Civic Offices, Ashbourne, County Meath
Group Show – The Portugal Trip, Kells Heritage Centre, Kells, County Meath

2008
Group Show – Brú na Bóinne, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – The Arts Trail, Window Displays, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – Rotunda Gallery, Navan Shopping Centre, County Meath

2007
Group Show – The Burren, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – The Arts Trail, Window Displays, Navan, County Meath

2006
Group Show – Horizons – Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – Life in the Lane – Metges Lane, Navan, County Meath
Group Show – Moynalty Steam Threshing – Moynalty, County Meath

2005
Group Show – Newgrange Hotel, Navan, County Meath

2002
Group Show – Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Ely Place, Dublin

2000
Solo Show – Ultramar Ceramics, Navan, County Meath

1999
Joint Show – with Kay Maher, Meath County Library

1998
Eduardo da Cunha Gallery, Solsral de Parehaõ
Solo Show – Galeria Municipal de Pombal, Pombal, Portugal

1997
Group Show – Plasitcas e Fotografia, Leiria, Portugal
Group Show – Bienal des Arts, Leiria, Portugal
Solo Show – Patio das Cantigas, Leiria, Portugal
Solo Show – ‘Vinho Verde e Azeitonas’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

1996
Group Show – Meitheal VII, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

1995
Group Show – ‘Famine’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Solo Show – ‘Art Auction’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Group Show – ‘Petra Reflections’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
Solo Show – ‘Olaria’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Solo Show – ‘Meitheal VII’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

1994
Solo Show – County Buildings, Wicklow, County Wicklow
Group Show – ‘Mermaids Purse’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Solo Show – ‘Exposiçaõ’, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

1993
Solo Show – Railway Street, Navan, County Meath

1992
Group Show – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Group Show –  Bear Cats, Sligo
Group Show – Factory Theatre, Sligo
Group Show – Model School, Sligo

1992
Group Show – Yeats Gallery, Sligo

1991
Group Show – Town Hall, Sligo

Awards
1992 – Feis Sligeach Painting Award
1991 – Music, Arts and Drama Ireland