Sharon McElroy Artist and Filmmaker
Commissions/Exhibitions
2019/2021 Wetlands Unravelled, WWT, London Wetlands Centre, Barnes
2013 Unravelling The Vyne, The Vyne (National Trust) Sherborne St. John
Solo Exhibition
2023 The Corruganza Boxmakers, Hunter Wing, St Georges UCL
Heritage Exhibition
2024 - The Corruganza Boxmakers, Wandworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library
open
ended
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Community Now, Then and Forever, The Grosvenor Arms, London
2021 Conflict and The Creative Arts, University For The Creative Arts, Canterbury
2019 Time, Memory and Transience, St Georges Church, Esher
2019 Edition 5: Open Printmaking Exhibition, 44AD Gallery, Bath
2019 The Anonymous HeART Project, Kings Place, London
2018 Art is Something Much More Dangerous, The Horsebridge Arts Centre,Whitstable
2017 Draw The Line, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2016 On Our Way to Where? hARTslane, London
2016 A Many Sided Thing, A-side B-side Gallery, London
2015 Leaving Home, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London
2014 The New Georgians, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
2013 Process in Exile for Made In Arts London
2013 MA Show, Wimbledon College of Art, University Of The Arts, London
2012 ‘Trust’: Artists Respond To Morden Hall Park, Morden
2012 Memoria Technica, The Nunnery, Bow Arts, London
2011 BA Show, The Foyer Gallery, Wimbledon College Of Art, University of The Arts, London
2010 Park ’10, Cannizaro Park, London
Two-person collaborative exhibition
2017 Ties That Bind At The Water’s Edge, The Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable
Symposia/screenings
2017 Patterns of Home at Digital /Material: Developments in Printed and Woven Textiles
University For The Creative Arts Research Department, UCA, Rochester
2015 A Man of The Cloth at The Erotic Cloth, Colloquium, (University For The Creative Arts
Research Department), The Artworker's Guild, London
Selected Screenings
2014 The Other Side Of Here, 51 Zero Voyager: Film, Video /Digital Media Arts Festival, Strood /Rochester/ Chatham
2014 Open Projector Night, The Bowerhouse, Maidstone
2014 Thursday Late, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2013 Skins We Live In, Made In Arts London, 29-31 Oxford Street, London
2010 Moving Image South with Ben Rivers, HMV Curzon, Wimbledon
Festivals
2023 Wandsworth Heritage Festival
2018 Whitstable Biennale Satellite Progamme, Whitstable
2018 Brighton Artists Open Houses, Brighton Fringe Festival, Brighton
Residencies
2017 Patterns Of Home, Merton Faith In Action Homelessness Project, London
2017 A Many Sided Thing: Mini residency with Drawing Connections, Artists
Collaborative, Wimbledon College Of Arts, University Of The Arts, London
2010 C’mon Everybody, (Long Live the King) The Ace Café, Stonebridge Park, London
2010 A Hermit In Residence, The Carshalton House Estate, Carshalton
2009 U’s, Sutton United Football Club, Sutton
Charity/Partner projects
2023 The Corruganza Boxmakers banner parade to accompany a guided walk and blue plaque unveiling (Wandsworth Heritage Festival)
2018 Wardrobe Assistant/Costume maker for The Wind in The Willows, Leatherhead Operatic Society
2018 Printing Workshop facilitator at Merton Faith In Action Homelessness Project,London
2014 Sole Costume Designer/Sourcer on Vandalis, a Heritage Lottery Funded
Community Film Project with the Environmental charity Groundwork London
2014 Printing Workshop facilitator at Harris Academy Morden and Oral historian
on The River Wandle Flowing Through Time, a Heritage Lottery Funded Project with
Environmental charity Groundwork London
2013 Oral historian for 20th Century Stories a Heritage Lottery Funded Project with
Honeywood Museum and The London Borough of Sutton
Selected Education
2011-2013 MA Fine-Art Wimbledon College of Arts, University of The Arts London
2005-2011 BA Time Based-Media, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of The Arts London
2002-2004 Edexel Diploma in Foundation Studies Art and Design
Surrey Institute of Art and Design (now University For The Creative Arts, Epsom)