Sharon McDonagh
Resonate

PREVIEW
Thursday 14th July | 5.30pm – 8.30pm

  • Exhibition Open
    Sunday 17th July | 2:30pm – 4:30pm By Appointment
    Monday 18th July | 11:30am – 2:30pm
    Thursday 21st July | 11:30am – 2:30pm
    Sunday 24th July | 2:30pm – 4:30pm By Appointment
    Monday 25th July | 11:30am – 2:30pm
    Thursday 28th April | 5.30pm – 8.30pm
    Sunday 31st July | 2:30pm – 4:30pm By Appointment
    Monday 1st August | 11:30am – 2:30pm
    Thursday 4th Augustl | 11:30am – 2:30pm

  • Sharon McDonagh (b. Yorkshire 1969) is a York based artist with a passion for urban decay, derelict buildings and the fragility of life. Taking inspiration from her previous career as a high profile Police Forensic Artist and her work in End of Life Care, she has the ability to transform her subject matter into colourful, tactile paintings that evoke emotion, nostalgia and intrigue.

    For many years McDonagh has created artists impressions of unidentified fatalities from mortuary photographs and crime scene information. She has gained recognition for her work within the field on television as well as in the media due to her unusual work and experiences. She was commissioned as an artist by the BBC to produce the drawing of the late relative of Gary Lineker for the ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ programme.

    Recently McDonagh has been utilising her skills to create highly textured acrylic and multi-media paintings that examine the beauty of nature through decay. She has been involved in community art projects with disadvantaged young people and young offenders as well as exhibiting at venues around York including the York Open Studios event. She currently works with teenagers who come from challenging backgrounds, promoting art as a way to express themselves.,She is also the artist delivering a unique project on the Dementia ward at York Hospital, using art as a way to encourage patient interaction and alleviate anxiety. 

  • WEBSITE: sharonmcdonagh-artist.co.uk

    FACEBOOK: Sharon McDonagh_Artist

    INSTAGRAM: sharonmcdonagh_artist

Living in eternity: tomorrow never comes | Essay by Bruce Davies
Studio Journal | Underground With Sharon McDonagh: an eye for detail

Sharon McDonagh has spent many years piecing together images from fragmentary remains, initially as a high profile forensic artist for the police but now also as a visual artist. For this exhibition McDonagh has created an entirely new series of works in response to the environment in which she will be exhibiting.

McDonagh’s practice takes abandoned objects and imbues them with a deep sense of nostalgia through her replication of the effect of natural decay. Blurring the boundaries between reality and memory; these detailed and highly textured multi-media works seek to grip the emotions that are ultimately formed in the last remaining fragments of life..

In examining the fragility of life, we can come to recognise the significance of items left behind in the transition between life and death.