Sharon West
Frilled neck Filly 2011
mixed media
85.0 × 60.0cm
City of Darebin art collection
Artist-In-Residence: Sharon West
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre’s inaugural Artist-In-Residence, Sharon West, practices principally with the mediums of painting, assemblage and digital work. Since 1999 she has taught visual arts at the Indigenous Arts Unit of the School of Art, RMIT University. In 2009, West completed her Masters of Art at RMIT, examining the relationship between settler and Indigenous cultures within the context of Australian colonial art history.
West has exhibited widely in group and solo shows both in Australia and overseas and has been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Portia Geach Portrait Prize and the Banyule Works on Paper Prize. In 2011 she won the Darebin Art Prize and the award for Excellence in Conceptual Photography at the Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. West is represented in public and private collections including the Cities of Darebin, Maribyrnong and Melbourne, Victoria University and the Museum of Empire, Bristol, United Kingdom.
As part of the Artist-in-Residence programme, Sharon West will present her solo exhibition Menageries Merveilleux: curious beasts of Bundoora and beyond, deliver a lecture for the monthly Talk and Tea series and conduct a painting workshop.
