Sharon Peoples

Sharon has worked as an artist in Canberra for over 20 years, exhibiting nationally and internationally as well as taking on commissioned work. 

Her work has been collected by many national and state institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia and the Parliament House Collection. Sharon holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Australian National University and has taught as a guest lecturer in the Textiles workshop at Australian National University. Her art practice focuses on textiles, both hand and machine embroidery. 

In recent years Sharon has been exploring gardens through portraits: the inner secret garden, artists’ gardens and gardens of the imagination. Fragility of both the environment and the human condition is reflected in the medium: oscillating between hand and machine embroidery to examine this state.