Sharon Dipity 2025

Sharon Dipity
Movement & Mark-making 3
1 September to 11 October 2025

For the first week of September the public are invited into Studio 1 to respond to instructional prompts picked randomly to inspire movement and drawing, and also the chance to draw from original piano music composed by Justin Grounds. Paper and drawing materials will be laid out ready for people to respond creatively.

For this residency, Sharon dipity will continue in her exploration of the impact of movement on mark-making using a variety of tools and methods, in her own drawing practice and as part of her work on the Arts for Health programme. Sharon is currently collaborating with Helga Deasy (dancer) and Justin Grounds(composer) on a project ‘Landscapes of the Imagination’ enabled by National Lottery Funding to research movement, mark-making and music with residents in Skibbereen Community Hospital. This research continues the work made in a collaboration with dancer Helga Deasey in 2024. This residency also combines elements from an earlier residency ‘Chance encounters / en-counterbalancE.

Sharon will use this residency to continue research into the impact of movement on mark-making. To research how she can expand on this practice using her body and specifically made tools to enhance the drawing process. To bring this learning to her arts for health practice working with older people. To prepare and research how she can facilitate a variety of movement inspired mark making using a variety of tools created for this purpose.

Sharon dipity is a multi-disciplinary visual artist working across the media of drawing, sculpture, printmaking, painting, textiles, performance, installation and participatory arts. She has been working in participatory and socially engaged practice for over 30 years. Sharon holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Scenography from U.C.E, Birmingham; and a B.A. Honours Degree in Textiles from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Sharon has been devising and delivering aspects of the public engagement programme at the West Cork Arts Centre for more than 15 years, most notably in Arts and Health and Children’s Programmes. https://artsforhealthwestcork.com/sharon-dipity/

Image: Sharon dipity, Beach  memory whole body Mark-making, The Line Has Two Sides, Bealtaine Residency 2023

This residency is supported by National Lottery Funding.