SHaRON walters
Sharon Walters is a London-based artist and project curator whose series entitled ‘Seeing Ourselves', is an exploration of identity, beauty standards, and race through intricate paper cut outs and hand-assembled collages.
Make it At Market
Make it At Market is an inspirational BBC1 series where a team of experts try to help budding entrepreneurs turn their hobbies into businesses. Series 2 returns in November 2023, and Sharon appears on episodes 5 and 8. Catch up on series one where Sharon mentors artists on episodes 5, 10 and 13.
Recent news
Mosaic Art Prize
Sharon won Second Prize in the Mosaic Art Prize at Hauser and Wirth in November 2023
In Paradise
In Paradise group show curated by Ekow Eshun at Claridge’s Art Space until 5 December 2023
Artist Residency in Lagos
Sharon was invited to Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria, for an artist Residency in November 2023
Seeing Ourselves podcast
The Seeing Ourselves podcast is part of a multi-disciplinary arts project conceived by London-based artist Sharon Walters.Supported by the National Maritime Museum, through the Migration, Heritage and Belonging project, Sharon collaborates with historian Serena Lee (@GeorgianDiaspora) and artist/historian Fiona Compton (@KnowyourCaribbean) to explore depictions of people of African descent in the museum collections. Their discussions are frank, open, and honest to offer a unique insight into how it feels to see ‘yourself’ represented and misrepresented in museum spaces.