Sharon Leahy-Clark

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Born: London
Lives: London

Education
1999-2001 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art, Painting
1996-1999 Middlesex University, BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class)
1995-1996 City Literary Institute, Foundation Art & Design
1983-1986 Polytechnic of North London, BSc (Hons) Sociology

Solo Exhibitions
See below




Group Exhibitions
2012
Westminster Reference Library, London (solo show)

2011
The Three Cornered World, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe (solo show)
Secret Postcards, Royal College of Art, London

2010
Winter Open, Baskethousevillageuniverse, London
Secret Postcards, Royal College of Art, London
RE:Animate, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire

2009
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group, Project Space (awarded Commendation)
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire
Secret Postcards, Royal College of Art, London

2008/9
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space (London), Summerfield Gallery (Cheltenham), Winchester Discovery Centre (Winchester), Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery (Suffolk), DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery (Durham)
Artsway Open 2008, Lymington, Hants
British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
Secret Postcards, Royal College of Art, London

2007
Celeste Art Prize 2007 (finalist), Truman Brewery, London and Lyon & Turnball, Edinburgh
Creekside Open (selected by Victoria Miro), APT Gallery, London

2006
Anonymous Drawings 3, Bluetenweiss, Berlin
Clothesline, ABC No Rio, New York

2005
Different Alphabets/Different Languages, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire
Margate Rocks, Margate, Kent

2004
Aftershock, 1A Space, Hong Kong
Faith, Transition Gallery, London
Faith, CAS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2002
Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
It's all in the Text, Stroud House Gallery, Gloucester
Core, MOT Gallery, London

2001
David Bowie Wonderworld, Royal College of Art, London

2000
Truancy, Lime House Arts Foundation, London
Yip Yap Yip Yap, Cable Street, London

1999
Pissing to the Stars, Redgate Gallery, London (solo show)

1996
Figuring Cezanne, Tate Britain and Lethaby Gallery, London



Grants/Awards
2001
Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize
TI Group Travel Award to Berlin

2000
TI Group Travel Award to Iceland

1999
TI Group Travel Award to Budapest
Absolut Secret, RCA Grant

Collections:
The Drawing Gallery (Dr Yvonne Crossley)
British Airways collection
Redgate Gallery, London



Publications
In the Darkness of the Wardrobe, Samantha Moore, (Essay), www.apengine.org (2010)
The Independent - RCA Interim Show (2000)

(Catalogues):
Oriel Davies Re: Animate (2010)
Ludlow Summer Exhibition (2010 & 2009)
Jerwood Drawing Prize (2008)
British Glass Biennale (2008)
Celeste Painting Prize (2007)