Sharon Rawlinson
Artist BA Honours Fine Art.
Mixing media of photography, film and painting to produce individual, commissioned and community arts based projects across the UK.
Since my return to the UK from living in Asia for 6 years I have been interested in the experience of memory replays and workings of the displaced mind creating 2 worlds, the places we have travelled and lived and the reality of where we are right now.
Our vision is constantly trying to make sense of the visual bombardment and layers of imagery that we see and process on a daily basis from the time that we wake up to the time that we go to sleep. This imagery is written and overwritten into our subconscious, seeping into memories like subliminal messages and unwatched video tapes.
My life experiences led my practice into an investigation into artist film and visual media using footage taken during those moments of fragile ephemerality between memory and now.
The writings of Walter Benjamin on the dialectical image and Martin Heidegger on the experience in movement have both influenced me to investigate a way of seeing film as art and to use film and photograph as a way of painting which reflects the cultural and technological age we live in today.
Since completing my degree I have worked on various art projects, commissions, film set painting and community arts projects. Delivering workshops in the community and schools has helped me to develop my own workshops that can be delivered to young, old and those struggling with mental health.