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.
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Artist, Workshop facilitator and Art Box Owner
A Bit About Me
My Career
A practising visual artist & creative practitioner, delivering community arts projects for regional & national organisations such as The Grand Theatre of Lemmings, Jaywick Martello Tower, Essex County Council, Essex University & NPO Emergency Exit Arts. I also work with schools, community groups & festivals.
ArtJamManningtree 2021
Life drawing portraiture group, has 60+ members & meets fortnightly in a positive & relaxed environment, enhancing people’s enjoyment & art skills. ‘It’s yoga for the mind’ - participant.
ArtBox Mobile Studio 2022
Recipient of an Essex Arts & Culture Award to develop The ArtBox - a self-converted mobile studio (originally a horsebox) that delivers art workshops in a fun & creative setting. Regularly commissioned by events to create bespoke large scale murals utilising the outside of The Artbox for audiences to colour in, creating a community inspired, participatory but non- pressured situation for people to play with colour & drawing. The murals are gifted to the community & displayed in libraries, parish halls & community spaces.
Schools and Community work
Having the overarching aim to connect people & create a pride of place to play, experiment & have fun with art whilst learning or finessing skills.
ArtBox North Street Manningtree 2024
a building project that has undergone an extensive renovation with the vision to create an artist centre in which to develop individuals and my own practice.
My Practice
Having lived in Asia for 6 yearsI have been interested in the experience of memory replays and imagery that 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.
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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.
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