Sharon Leahy-Clark British, b. 1965

Based at the Centre for Recent Drawing, London. 

Graduated: Royal College of Art 2001, MA Fine Art Painting. Middlesex University 1999, BA Hons (1st class) Fine Art. Polytechnic of North London 1986, BSc Hons (2:1) Sociology. 

Recipient of several awards including the Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize. Work in collections including British Airways and The Drawing Gallery. Co-founder of ‘Head on a Plate Projects’ collaborative drawing project with artist/critic Sarah Kent.

Teaching: Drawing and tutorials at the Art Academy, London.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Forthcoming: Head on a Plate Projects at 303 Projects, Lowestoft, live drawing event

2022 Head on a Plate Projects, Fitzrovia Gallery, live drawing event

Head on a Plate Projects, Centre for Recent Drawing, live drawing event

2019 Rolling the Rock, Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD),Islington, London

2017 Not afraid of the dark, Paper Gallery, Manchester

2011 The Three-Cornered World, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire 

 

Two person exhibition

Enigma, Vivienne Roberts Projects 2024

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023-2024 Carnevale, Vivienne Roberts Projects

 2023 Don't Look Back, Vivienne Roberts Projects

2023 Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy, Wales

Champs Noir, Terrace Gallery, London

Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2022 Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London

Give or Take, Centre for Recent Drawing, London (curator & exhibiting artist) 

Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy, Wales

The Lido Open, Margate

Like a slight hiccup… La Grange Gallery, Reims, France

2021 Thank you and I mean that very, very sincerely, 303 Projects, Lowestoft

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset

Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy, Wales

2020 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London

Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London

2019 Royal West of England Academy Open 167, Bristol

2018 Caroming, Centre 4 Recent Drawing, London

2017 Like the Lines of a Hand, Paper Gallery, Manchester, and touring

The Sense of Things, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, California

Between Things, Minories Gallery, Colchester

Summer Salon, Luborimov/Angus Hughes Gallery, London

2016 Freeze for Frieze, Project for Frieze Week with Moncler and Purple PR, London

Sixty, Luborimov/Angus Hughes Gallery, London and Art-Athina, Greece

Tender and Cruel, Vacuous Gallery, London

2015 The Functionality of Thought Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, Yorkshire, and touring

2014 Oriel Davies Open 2014, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

New Mills ArtFEST 2014, (commissioned artist) New Mills, Derbyshire

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013 (touring)

2013 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013, Jerwood Space, London, and touring

Derwent Drawing Prize, Mall Galleries, London 

Sunday Times Watercolour Prize, Mall Galleries, London, and touring

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Project Space, London

Ludlow Open, The Harley Centre, Ludlow, Herefordshire

Neo:artprize 2013, neo:gallery22, Bolton

2012 Ludlow Open, Millichope Gallery, Ludlow, Herefordshire

2010 Re-animate, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales

Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire

2009 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group, Project Space, London (awarded Commendation)

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts

Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Shropshire

2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize - Jerwood Space, London, and touring

Artsway Open 2008, Artsway Lymington, Hants

British Glass Biennale 2008, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge

2007 Celeste Painting Prize 2007 (finalist), Truman Brewery, London and Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh

Creekside Open (selected by Victoria Miro), APT Gallery, London

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

2004 Aftershock 1A Space, Hong Kong

Faith, Transition Gallery, London and CAS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2002 Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales

Core, MOT Gallery, London

1996 Figuring Cezanne, Tate Britain and Lethaby Gallery, London

 

Art Fairs/Projects/residencies

2017 Manchester Contemporary, UK

2016 Freeze for Frieze, Moncler, Old Bond Street, London (Project with Purple PR)

Art Copenhagen, Denmark

SIXTY, Art-Athina, Greece

Art Dubai, UAE (RCA Secret, Project)

2015 Sluice, London

London Art Fair 

KÖLNER LISTE, Cologne

2014 Exchange Rates, New York

Manchester Contemporary, UK

Affordable Art Fair, London, (Project Space with Paper Gallery)

Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland (residency)