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SHARON PAULGER
Location
Milton Keynes
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Medium
Screen prints
Titles
1. Just To Fill The Space ( Milton Keynes University Hospital)
2. Just
3. All of April and a Little Bit of May
4. Don’t Worry You Will Die
5. Maybe….That Is What I Could Do
6. Oh No Have I Ruined It?
7. Another Day Another Layer
8. How Will I Know When It Is Finished?
9. What Shall I Do Today?
10. Keeping Busy
11. Frippery (Tension Fine Art)
12. While I Am Doing This I Wonder Why I Am Doing This
Bio
Sharon is a Milton Keynes based artist. She has a background of working as a facilitator and project manager in community arts and from 2012-17 was Director at Arts for Health (Milton Keynes). In 2022 she completed an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins, the same year she was short listed for The Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize. She has had solo shows at Tension Fine Art, Penge and Gallery Live, Milton Keynes. Her work has been included in group shows in London, Liverpool, Preston and Milton Keynes.
Following a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, in 2019 I made a career change from arts facilitator/project manager to artist. Through studying MA Fine Art Digital at Central St Martins (2020-22) I had the opportunity to explore what an arts practice for an artist with a life limiting illness can look like.
I am a screen printer who works with bright/fluorescent colours. This love of colour is inherent to me but the joy it brings me is even more important post diagnosis. Jo Spence, talking about her photo-therapy to document her cancer, said ‘this isn’t about not dying. I don’t want everyday to be a misery’ and that resonates with me and my work.
The question of ‘how we choose to pass time?’ has become fundamental to my work. My art practice is how I choose to pass the time, this makes the process more important than the product. I print intuitively and prolifically, layering colours, obliterating layers and then I crop and edit them to find pieces that delight me.
My mobility, my end of life planning, my financial constraints plus environmental concerns for future generations leads me to work small and light and to reuse and recycle materials where I can.
