Sharon Verrall

Sharon Verrall is an artist living and working in Kilkenny, Ireland. She studied Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design Cork and was awarded a BA (Hons) degree in painting in 2000. That year she won the National Iontas Student Award, and her work went on tour nationwide including Sligo Art Gallery and Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast. She was awarded a visual art bursary from Wexford County Council in 2001 which helped to fund her first solo exhibition.

Her current work takes two strands - one focuses on the creation of Artist’s Books combining an appreciation for the visual/tactile object and the form of the written word, and the other focuses on the creation of paintings relating to memory and inner remembrances of deeply felt landscapes of the past through layering techniques using oil, cold wax and gesso.

Her poetry has been published in various publications including the Stony Thursday Book, Shamrock Haiku Journal and the British Haiku Journal Presence, and she was shortlisted for the Bradshaw Books Poetry Manuscript Competition. She has been a member of various writing groups and workshops. Her current creative writing work focuses on the ever-evolving creation of Haiku – that tiny elusive object, so subtle and ...

Sharon studied Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design Cork and was awarded a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Painting in 2000. That year she won the National Iontas Student Award, and her work went on tour nationwide including Sligo Art Gallery and Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast.

2016 The Lighthouse Gallery Kilkenny Arts Festival

2015 Visual Artists Ireland Artist’s Books Exhibition @ Irish Museum of Modern Art

2015 Solo exhibition The Watergarden Gallery Thomastown

2014 Grennan Mill Craft School Graduate Show

2012 The Watergarden Advent Fair

2010 Wexford Opera Fringe Festival

2008 The Studio Bennettsbridge

2007 Kilkenny Arts Festival Rothe House

2006 CTI Waterford Centenary Exhibition Dyehouse Gallery

2004 Group Exhibition Hopewire Gallery

2004 Continuity Imagine Arts Festival Waterford Treasures Museum

2004 Crawford Open 4 International Exhibition Municipal Gallery Cork

2003 Pig Yard Gallery Wexford

2003 Artist’s Books Exhibition Arts Centre Wexford

2002 Charity Art Auction Wexford

2002 Homage Solo Exhibition Waterfront Gallery Wexford

2001 Iontas Sligo Art Gallery and National Tour

2001 Wexford County Council Arts Bursary Exhibition

2000 Kelly’s Hotel Annual Opera Exhibition Wexford

2000 Iontas Sligo Art Gallery and National Tour

2000 Crawford College of Art & Design Graduate Show