Sharon Wilson

Artist Statement

‘The camera is brought out at times of rejoicing, like weddings and christenings. I want to show another side that speaks directly to the viewer about the need to feel at one with the final process of life’. Kandola 1998.

The series of images I propose to offer are personal reflections and statements about ‘the human condition’ seen from a personal point of view. Here unique moments of my own dying father are portrayed as a consequence of having no visual material of him remaining from when I was growing up. I wish to share my fears about my own mortality and the frailty of human existence in general with an audience as images of contemplation, beauty and revulsion.

Sharon Wilson.
AKA- Elizabeth Hamilton.


Exhibitions

Waygood Newcastle, DLI Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens Project space, Laing Art Gallery Project Space. Punctum photography collective In-Camera Exhibition- Walkerville Gallery. Elswick Swimming Pool (Year of the Artist) Underwater Photography project. Sunderland University MA Show. Nissan Show. Latest –2006- ‘Human Zoo’ at University of Northumbria Gallery- ‘Up Close and Personal’ at the Hatton Gallery. ‘Mam & Dad’ show at Cluny Gallery Ouseburn. Wellcome Library, London commission and due to start collaborative Project ‘Bergen’ to key in to architecture week NE in 2007.

Sharon Wilson