Biography
Trained at Chelsea College of Art, Katherine Sheers spent her early career working as a lingerie designer. The body, in particular the female body, was a necessary preoccupation during that time. Now, as an artist, mother of daughters and breast cancer survivor, it is the body which continues to hold her gaze.
Sheers regards physicality as a gateway into an intimate view of our existence. As such, the discipline of life drawing both underpins her abstract work and exists in its own right.
Rendering another human being in their most vulnerable state, anchors Sheers into an awareness of her own body’s sensations and responses. And it is from this union of anatomical observation, somatic experience and quiet anamnesis, that she conjures a sensual and choreographed language of marks which speak of human interaction and connection.
Selected Exhibitions
2024, The Wonder and The Wild - Gallery At Home, Llancayo
2023, Come Home - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2022, Camaraderie - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2022, A Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painters - Glasbury
2022, A Room of Her Own - Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2021, Hidden Gems - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2020, Coming Together - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2020, Glasbury Arts Exhibition - Glasbury
2020, Spring Exhibition - Eden Art Space Gallery, Mahé Seychelles
2019, Bewilderbeasts - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2019, Winter Exhibition, Three Ravens Gallery, Seattle WA
2019, XVI - PZ Gallery, Penzance Cornwall
2019, A Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painters - Futures Gallery, Pierhead Cardiff
2019, A Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painters - Cyfartha Castle Museum & Art Gallery
2019, The Capricious Nude - The Drawing Room, Hay-on-Wye
2019, Home is not a Place - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2019, Nature Nurture Nudes - The Table Gallery, Hay-on-Wye
2019, Newlyn School of Art - Chapel House, Penzance
2018, Constellation - Gallery at Home, Llancayo
2018, Undercurrent - The River Cafe, Glasbury
2018, Glasbury Arts Exhibition - Glasbury
2016, Winter Exhibition - The Table Gallery, Hay-on-Wye
2016, Traces - The Tabernacle, Talgarth
Competitions
2020 - Shortlisted for The Mother Art Prize, London (run by The Procreate Project)
Collections
Katherine's work is held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe, United States, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Contact
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