Rebecca Sharp
Artist's Statement Rebecca Sharp (b. 1989, Sweden) lives and works in Umeå in the North of Sweden. My artistic practice revolves around change, loss, and transformation, where the living shifts between presence and absence, between preservation and impermanence. I explore the threshold where memory meets forgetting, where nature and human history intersect, where control and freedom exist in a constant state of tension. The works carry a quiet awareness of what is no longer fully accessible: the fragile, the fleeting, and the sacred. Through interdisciplinary expressions in drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation, I investigate the vulnerability of existence and of nature itself. I seek a dialogue between the conceptual and the poetic, between research and intuition. My works create intimate, ritual spaces for reflection and reformation, a place where personal and collective losses can take shape. Through material and form, I highlight both nature’s own will and our attempts to control it. Themes of collapse, transformation, and rebirth recur as invitations to introspection and change. My work is an ongoing excavation of loss and hope in a time marked by ecological threats, political unrest, and climate crisis, a voice in the conversation on the most urgent existential questions of our time.
CV 2023 - MA Fine Art. Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. 2019 - BA Fine Art - First Class Honours. The University of Northampton. COURSES 2016 - Exhibition Design. Malmö University.       Art History A2: From the End of the Second World War to the Present. Umeå University. 2011 - Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative. Malmö University.      SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 - Galleri Alva, Norrlands Universitessjukhus, Umeå, SE. 2023 - The Entire World Is Where We Live // Galleriet Umeå Konsthögskola, SE.​​ DUO EXHIBITIONS 2017 - Klippans Konsthall, with Malin Olsen, Klippan, SE.​​ GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 - Membership exhibition ÖKKV // Galleri Lokomotiv, Örnsköldsvik, SE. 2024 -  Mitt Klippan // Klippans Konsthall, SE. 2024 - Konst åt Alla Västerbotten 2024 // Hjåggsjö bygdegård, SE. 2024 - Supermarket 2024 // SKHLM Skärholmen Centrum, Stockholm, SE. 2023 - I Cut Across The Stream // MA Degree Show, Bildmuseet, SE. 2023 - A Cat Across The Street //MFA Group Show. GSA Gallery (Stockholm), SE. 2022 - Teckningstriennalen Svart på Vitt, Landskrona Konsthall, SE. 2022 -  Galleri Backlund, Göteborg, SE. 2022 - Ctrl+Affect // Galleri Alva - Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Umeå, SE. 2021 - Works in progress. Experimental residential workshop / Galleri Glas & Lera, Röbäck, SE. 2019 - Free Range // The Truman Brewery, London, UK. 2019 - BA Degree Show, The University of Northampton, Northampton, UK. 2018 - Another World Is Possible // CVAN-EM Annual Event, Newton Hall, Northampton, UK. 2018 - Lest You Become A Subject // Spring Show. NN Contemporary Project Space, Northampton, UK. 2017 - Forecast – Public Art Festival // Delapré Abbey, Northampton, UK. 2016 - Galleri Konsten, Helsingborgs Konstförening, Helsingborg, SE. 2015 - Galleri Bluelights Juried Exhibition, Halmstad, SE. 2015 - Degree Show, Kulturhotellet, Helsingborg, SE.  ​  GRANTS & AWARDS 2024 - Mobility grant, Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten, Sweden. 2024 - Travel grant, Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten, Sweden. 2024 - Stipendium Karins Gåva, Örnsköldsvik. 2023 - Stipendium Konsthögskolan Umeå Universitet 2021 - Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse 2021 - Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 3 2020 - Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 2 2016 - Klippans Kulturstipendium 2015 - Klippans Kommuns Kulturpris​​ COLLECTIONS Region Jämtland Härjedalen. Umeå Kommun, Sweden. Bygdegårdarnas Riksförbund, Sweden.​​​​ PUBLICATIONS 2023 - I Cut Across The Stream, Umeå University, ISBN: 978-91-988614-0-2. ​ OTHER 2025 - Board Chair of Galleri Lokomotiv, Örnsköldsvik. 2024 – Lecture, Nolaskolans Estetprogram, Örnsköldsvik.
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