Sharon Monagle

I am a largely self taught artist, working mainly in acrylic paint.

A medical practitioner, I am privileged in my day to day work to share with people the highs and lows that life provides:

the joy that attends the birth of a child,
the terror at voices when no-one can be seen,
the incomprehension of premature death,
the fear, anger and denial when serious disease makes its presence known,
the relief, too, at finally having an answer.

I have a particular interest in mental health and have previously worked in rural and remote communities (in Australia and in Zambia), as well as with homeless persons and IV drug users.

I find art is a useful tool to help me to explore, understand and to empathise with people's experiences - their reactions to self, to others and to the world around them. It enables me to see beauty in the everyday and in imperfection.

I continue to develop my painting style and consider myself an abstract expressionist. I enjoy painting portraits and landscapes but am most interested in figurative work. To me, a degree of abstraction reminds us that we all see the same thing differently: our perceptions are distorted by our own experience, our mood, our biases.

I also enjoy writing, m...

Higher school certificate (HSC) Nagle College Bairnsdale 1985 (Dux)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, Hons) Monash University 1991
Fellowship of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 2003
Master of Public Health (MPH) UNSW 2005

The Belle Arti Art Prize 2016

Beaumaris Art Group members exhibition 2016

Linden Gallery Postcard show 2017

Cambridge Studio Gallery “Who’s looking at you” portrait exhibition 2017

Kingston Arts Centre's ArtzBlitz exhibition (annually since 2007)

MESAC Easel art exhibition 2017

Contemporary Art Society A4 Art Australia Exhibition, Herring Island 2017

“Meanderings in Visual Language”: Group Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne 2017

“Landscapes Reflected and Represented,” Group exhibition, Brunswick St Gallery 2017

“At Home”, Group Exhibition Birds Gallery High St Kew 2017

AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW 2017

Cambridge Studio Gallery “Life Abstracted” abstract art exhibition 2017

Le Studio Artspace, Mordialloc, Group Exhibition 2016 and 2017

Solo exhibition, G3 Art space, Kingston Arts Centre “Nausea in my arm” October 2017

Group exhibition Le Studio ArtSpace Mordialloc 17-25 March 2018

Sandy Beach Community Art Exhibition, 2018

Hall and Wilcox art exhibition “Diversity” May 2018

Women, Science and Faith Group Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, August 2018

Featured Artist, Cambridge Studio Gallery Art Lounge, September 2018

Solo exhibition, Mulbury Gal...