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Sharon Quigley
The body; it’s multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, have been the main concerns within my artistic practice. I use it as a framework to explore the subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. Working directly onto paper, canvas or oil primed boards, I create intricately patterned surfaces, fusing a myriad of cultural references from Japanese Kimono designs, arabesques, nineteenth century steel engravings, micrographic reproductions and cellular structures, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlation that exists between them all. In recent work scenes which invoke the natural world also reveal an anatomy of patterns that persist and endure throughout life.

Sharon Quigley Studied Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee before completing an MA in European Fine Art in Barcelona. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh. Quigley has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of several Arts prizes and awards for painting, including The Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Exhibitionship Prize, The Jeffery Orchar Award for painting, The Hope Scott Trust Award for travel and for a publication and more recently the Edinburgh Printmakers Visiting Artist’s award.