Margaret Sharrow at St Dogmaels Gallery Winter Show

Image: Still from the video 'Soul group' by Margaret Sharrow at St Dogmaels Gallery, image copyright Margaret Sharrow, 2010

Margaret Sharrow is showing a selection of photographic and video work as part of the 'Winter Show' at St Dogmaels Gallery in Pembrokeshire.

It is the premiere of her video 'Soul group', installed in the new video viewing room.

There is also a chance to view some of Sharrow's cyanotypes of Greenland, and current work from her series of digital prints and collages 'Walking London / Walking Wales'.

St Dogmaels Gallery is on the High Street of St Dogmaels, a few miles from Cardigan on the road to Poppit Sands. Opening hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12 to 6pm.

The 'Winter Show' continues until February 2011.

Please vote for me to become the official blogger / artist for an expedition to the North Pole!

Peter Coviello at St Dogmaels Gallery, Pembrokeshire

Peter Coviello at St Dogmaels Gallery, Pembrokeshire. Photographs this page by Margaret Sharrow, 2010 - copyright for paintings remains with the artist

A lovely retrospective of this artist at the heart of the abstract expressionist movement in Britain, at St Dogmaels Gallery. I attended a talk at the exhibition in early July, and was surprised to find myself one of the only people there who hadn't met the artist in person before his death in 2006, making the experience oddly like a pleasant kind of wake. Quiet paintings, mostly, that grew on you the longer you were in their presence. They'd been stacked in his home and other places around this part of Wales, and were being assembled for an airing before various friends of the artist try to find homes for them with London dealers... how I wished I'd had the odd £300 to drop on one of the small gems - somehow I don't think they'll be available at that price for long.

Shrouded Forms: current work by Margaret Sharrow at Town Hall Café Deli, April 1-30

'Shrouded iron (face)', Margaret Sharrow, mixed media, 2010. Image copyright Margaret Sharrow 2010

'Shrouded Forms', a photographic/mixed media exhibition of current work by artist Margaret Sharrow, will open Thursday 1 April at the Town Hall Café Deli, Lampeter, Wales and runs throughout the month of April. 

The exhibition will be celebrate by a gala event on Saturday 10 April, 11 am - 3 pm, when there will be a special showing of 'Shrouded car (bird)' in the archway between the cafe and Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre, in addition to the exhibition inside the café. 

The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 5 pm. 

Margaret Sharrow is a graduate of Aberystwyth University's School of Art and has exhibited at St Dogmaels Gallery, @ the Gallery in Rhayader, Erwood Station Craft Centre and Gallery and other venues in Wales. Her work uses alternative photographic processes and mixed media in an attempt to express the ineffable. 

Town Hall Café Deli is located on Lampeter's High Street near the main bus stops, just off the A485 between Carmarthen and Aberystwyth. (See map)

For more information contact sharrow.art@hotmail.co.uk 

Further images to follow on this site after 10 April... or sooner, perhaps. 

Feel free to copy, print, distribute or post the promotional postcard / mini poster!

Exhibition reviews index

As my list of review articles grows, I thought I'd index them here.

Reviews by artist

Francis Bacon
Bacon & Rothko at Tate Dec 08

Kasia Chlasta
My new career as a fashion icon? Kasia Chlasta Feb 09

Anne Desmet
Anne Desmet: Lunchtime lecture and exhibition Dec 08

Zac Dutton
Zac Dutton - Untitled Installation, and more on Jenny Francis Nov 08

Anna Evans
Caffi Clonc Nov 08
Caffi Clonc revisited Dec 08

Alice Farnsworth
Alice Farnsworth: through the pinhole Jan 09

Jenny Francis
Jenny Francis' latest installation Nov 08
Zac Dutton - Untitled Installation, and more on Jenny Francis Nov 08

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley's One and Other on fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square Feb 09

Cildo Meireles
Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern Dec 08

Mark Rothko
Rothko at Tate Modern Dec 08

Unknown / anonymous
Paper Penguins Nov 08


Reviews by gallery

Aberystwyth University School of Art
(Kasia Chlasta) My new career as a fashion icon? Feb 09
Anne Desmet: Lunchtime lecture and exhibition Dec 08
Zac Dutton - Untitled Installation, and more on Jenny Francis Nov 08
(Anna Evans) Caffi Clonc Nov 08
(Anna Evans) Caffi Clonc revisited Dec 08
Alice Farnsworth: through the pinhole Jan 09
Jenny Francis' latest installation Nov 08
Paper Penguins Nov 08

Cromley Beach, near Liverpool

Antony Gormley Another Place Feb 09

Tate Britain
Bacon & Rothko at Tate Dec 08

Tate Modern
Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern Dec 08
Rothko at Tate Modern Dec 08
Bacon & Rothko at Tate Dec 08

Trafalgar Square, London

Antony Gormley, One and Other Feb 09

St Dogmaels Gallery, Cardigan
Margaret's work in St Dogmaels Gallery, near Cardigan Nov 08


welcome page ----- Margaret's webpage ----- Facebook ----- Flickr ----- Saatchi Online

Margaret's work in St Dogmaels Gallery, near Cardigan

St Dogmaels Gallery near Cardigan is now showing Margaret Sharrow's work.

Featured pieces are 'Nocturne', from the series 'Road Trip (Commute to Aberystwyth)', shown above, and selections from 'Soul Matters v. 1', 2008.

'Soul Matters v. 1' was previously exhibited as a video installation at the Aberystwyth University School of Art in April 2008.

The opening, Saturday 29 November from 6:30 pm, was fairly well attended considering what a frosty evening it was. It was the first time I had seen the new fountain in the back garden, a large rectangular concrete pool reflecting candles, with a large barbeque-cum-bonfire in a sort of silver dish described as 'like an alien spaceship'. Munching olives, I dipped back into the warm of the gallery.

Tricia McParlin has some interesting new work, very dark abstracts of night hills. Among the craft offerings, Greenweeds is a new producer of some sensuous handmade felt book covers in natural wool colours.

The exhibition runs until 28 February 2009.


welcome page ----- Margaret's webpage ----- Facebook ----- Flickr ----- Saatchi Online

Links to galleries

A very subjective list of galleries with, eventually, links and reviews.

NORTH AMERICA

Buffalo, New York, USA

Albright-Knox Gallery
One of the top 20th century galleries in the States, but undervisited compared to the big names in the Big Apple. Where I developed a childhood love of all things Pop Art, first saw the Impressionists, and later grew to appreciate Abstract Expressionism. The Rothko, Pollack, de Kooning, and Clifford Still are still what I seek out on each return visit... along with Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room.

Burchfield Penny Art Centre
Named after Charles Burchfield, American watercolour artist who lived in Buffalo, this newly revamped gallery is at Buffalo State College (known to Buffalonians, without irony, as Buff State), basically just across the road from the Albright-Knox. I haven't been there since the revamp...

Toronto, Canada

Art Gallery of Ontario

Most notable for the Henry Moore room (incredible!) and Group of Seven.

UNITED KINGDOM

London

This list is just a start!

Tate Britain

Tate Modern

National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

Victoria and Albert Museum

British Museum


Wales

Yes, you really can see art at all these places, and more...

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Prendre Gallery, Cardigan

Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan

St Dogmaels Gallery, near Cardigan

Mulberry Bush, Lampeter

Cafe Print, Lampeter

Gwilym C. Price, Son & Daughters, Lampeter

Oriel Cambria Arts, Tregaron

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

School of Art Museum and Gallery, Aberystwyth University

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Ceredigion Museum and The Coliseum, Aberystwyth

Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth

Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth

Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham

welcome page ----- Margaret's webpage ----- Facebook ----- Flickr----- Saatchi Online

Welcome to Margaret Sharrow's art blog

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I am finishing a B.A. in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University, and this blog will be a place where you can view my work in progress, as well as notices of current and upcoming exhibitions of my work. For more information, and my portfolio, please link to my website, sharrow.mosaicglobe.com, where you can also read about Greenland, where I have recently been travelling and taking thousands of photographs that form the basis of my work this year. (I also have an autobiographical blog about my trip to Greenland.) You can also view my work at Saatchi Online, Flickr and Facebook.

At the moment I'm quite busy getting work into shows around Wales. My solo exhibition at Cafe Print in Lampeter is now closed, but I still have pieces in St Dogmaels Gallery, near Cardigan and @ The Gallery, Rhayader.

This morning I mixed some cyanotype chemicals for my current degree work. Cyanotype is one of several alternative photographic processes I'm into. It was developed by John Herschel and Anna Atkins in the 1840s. It used to be used by engineers and architects for blueprints. It remains a lovely way of producing blue tone photographs. A lot of my current work is in the medium of cyanotype.

I'm about to attend a sound recording / editing workshop. The nice thing about being at an art school is that there's always something going on...

welcome page ----- Margaret's webpage ----- Facebook ----- Flickr ----- Saatchi Online