C.V.

Education

2005-2006 Post-Grad in Painting from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork

2001-2005 Hons Degree in Fine Art (Painting) from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork

2000-2001 Art, Craft & Design course in Dungarvan Technical College, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

Arts Council & Art bursaries Awarded

2008
Once Off Projects Award – for ±PLUS/MINUS

2007
Travel and Mobility Award – for POSTED 2
Once Off Projects Award – for POSTED 1
Culture Ireland Grant – for POSTED 1

2005
September – Awarded a nine month studio placement in the Backwater Studios from Crawford College

Curatorial/Collaborative projects

2009

June – iD: a project to be held in Gorzow, Poland about personal identity and how the sense of identity relates to artists work or not. This will be a collaboration between SKART, Salon Bruit, MOS, Gorzow and Bartek Nowark.
March/April – POSTED 4: Public talk/ Private Space – The fourth in a series of poster projects run by SKART shown on the hoarding of the St. Peter’s Market(Bodega), Cornmarket St, Cork for its renovation.

2008
September/October – When will it all end – Collaborative exhibition of site specific work with Stephanie (Sticky) Hough and Gary Farrelly shown in an office in Southern Fruit Warehouse, ArtTrail’08
August – ± Plus/Minus – a multidisciplinary group project involving nine selected artists, making site specific artworks in Oland Sweden relating to the climate, tolerance, difference and translation.
February – ± Plus/Minus – a multidisciplinary group project involving nine selected artists, making site specific artworks in Oland Sweden relating to the climate, tolerance, difference and translation.

2007
October – ATTRACTIVE OBJECTS (short film) for the Kommando Film Festival, selected to be screened in Kino Cinema as part of Cork Cork Film Festival with Kevin Tuohy (technical adviser).
September – POSTED 3 – Co-curated an international inter-disciplinary open-submission poster exhibition with Kevin Tuohy(artist) and Mick O’ Shea(artist). An out-door poster exhibition of 16-A2 posters, for Art-Trail, Cork, and a set displayed in Berlin, 19th Oct – 23rd Nov
July – Facilitated Auto-Reflex – A residential site specfic House Project by artists Maggie Tran and Graeme Walker in 21 Annmount, Cork.
July – POSTED 2 – Co-curating a poster exhibition of 6 selected artists for the launch of Yellow Box Art & Music Centre in Oland, Sweden.
June – POSTED 1 – Co-curating/ organising an international inter-disciplinary open-submission poster exhibition with Kevin Tuohy (artist), Rene Zechlin (curator) and Trevor Joyce (poet). Presented in 12 venues across the world, and hosted online simultaneously.
June – ACD3 – Adviser/ Technician/ Curator – 3rd year (end of year) Crawford College Degree Show, held in the Old ESB Powerhouse on Caroline St. Cork.

2006
December-January – MT box Co. collaboration with Kevin Tuohy, for Xmass the Spot organised by Nevan Lahart, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin
September – 3 Vincents Ave House Project, for Art-trail, Cork on the 29th Sept-2nd Oct, 6 artists invited to make site specfic installation works.

Solo Exhibitions

2009
January/March – Land Formations, a light box show in Tom Barry’s, Barrack St, of close-up paint pours/flows organised organised by Mick O’Shea, Cork Artist Collective -

2006
July–August – Chaos & Creation, debut solo exhibition which included many site specific pieces made for the space, and a collaborative Paint-Sound piece, James Barry Exhibition Centre, C.I.T., Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown , Cork.

Group Exhibitions

2009June – iD project, Gorzow, Poland partictipating in the this project about a sense of identity and relationship to artists work through making site specific works.

2008
September – October – When will it all end – a collaborative project with Stephanie (Sticky) Hough and Gary Farrelly, to run for Art Trail ’08.
July – A multidisciplinary group exhibition at ZAA, Berlin, Germany

2007
July – POSTED 2 – An outdoor image exhibition for the launch of Yellow Box
Art & Music Centre in Oland, Sweden.
February-May CEAD IN CHINA at the 411 galleries in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing

2006
October/ November – Live Art Event at Imagine, Waterford Arts Festival,
September – Fetish in a Box – curated by Sandra Minchin, shown in Art Trail’ 06, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
September – Art Trail ‘06, Cornerfall – paint installation at Shandon Craft Centre, Cork

2005
November – December – Open Studios 05, BackWater Artists Group – including artist talk for Art Trail’ 05, Cork
November – 24 hours Art Event in Tigh fili, Cork curated by Angelique dos Santos and Frances Murphy.
July – Forces of Nature with Grainne Ni Chuirrin, in the Jones Art Gallery, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
June – Talk Less, Crawford College Honours Degree Show, held in Crawford College of Art & Design, Sharman Crawford St., Cork.
February- March – Cultural Confinement – curated by UCC Visual Arts Society – exhibition of paintings and prints in O’Rahillig building, U.C.C.

2004
May – June – Lucky Dip, Crawford Diploma Exhibition, Lough Community Centre, Cork.
March – April – Luxury – Towards an exhibition, UCC Visual Arts Society exhibition, O’Rahillig building, U.C.C

Work Experience                                                                                                                                                                                              Current – Facilator at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery                                                                                                                                      Current – Art Technician/ Adviser at Arts Office, Cork Institute of Technology                                                                                             2008 – Programme Manager of ArtTrail‘08, visual art festival, Cork

2007 – 2008 – Gallery Assistant, Lavitt Gallery, Father Matthew St, Cork
2005-2006 – Paint Store, Crawford College of Art & Design, Sharman Crawford St. Cork

Professional affiliations
•    Co-founder & Director of Cork-based-artist-collaboration SKART – since 2006
•    On the Board of Directors, Art Trail, Cork – since 2008

Bibliography

• Interview with Don O’Mahony for Cork Campus Radio about SKART & the Poster Projects.
• Just Do It! :: SKART – Art-vertising Across The World (Interview/review of SKART & POSTED 1) by Shuk-Wah Chung, art writer, THE PROGRAM, Australia – 26th June 2007
• ART REVIEW of X Mass the Spot, by Victoria Watson, METROLIFE, Dublin – 15th December 2006
• Interview with Don O’Mahony for Cork Campus Radio about my debut solo show at C.I.T.
• Sharon’s work goes on show, by Louise Roseingrave, Evening Echo, Cork 16th July 2006
• Artist Sharon goes solo at C.I.T., Evening Echo, Cork 29th June 2006
• Review Sharon McCarthy – The Forces of Nature, by Liam Murphy, Munster Express, Waterford -10th August, 2005.
• Sharon McCarthy (Review of Degree show work) by Mike Fitzpatrick, Writer & Director of Limerick City Art Gallery, Exit Reviews, 7th July 2005.
• Sharon McCarthy (Review of Degree show work) by Shepherd Steiner, Art Critic & Historian, Exit Reviews, 7th July 2005.
• Review of Crawford College Degree Show by Aidan Dunne, art critic, Irish Times, 23rd June, 2005.
• Review of Irish Degree Shows by Christine Leach, Rattle-Bag, RTE Radio 1, 21st June 2005