Megan Sharkey
Textile Art

#textiles, #immersive, #subtle

The artist Megan Sharkey presents new works that explore our relationship with time.
Her work reflects on the elusive nature of time and how it shapes our thoughts and actions.
We fear it ‘slipping away’, we try to control it and fill it with productivity, we shape our days around an imaginary framework of minutes and hours… but a moment that lasts just a second can stay in our minds for years.
This exploration takes place through a slow, time-based hand stitch practice – one that is very physical, happening like a dance between body, line and space. The path of a single
thread floats, weightlessly – but creates a solid form that travels and emerges through layers of white cotton.
Fresh starts.

The exhibition showcases pieces made using a traditional needle lace/netting technique that the artist has adapted and developed. The works are created using a reductive palette,
emphasising the interplay between light, shadow, and surface. Midnight blue punctuates the works – a visual metaphor for the vast, infinite qualities of time and the cosmos.
Visitors are invited to pause and notice the nature of the time they bring to the space, to feel it’s texture and to contemplate it’s unpredictability.

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Megan Sharkey is an artist working with textiles, known for her innovative use of traditional hand-craft techniques.
Originally from Wales, UK now living in Porto, Portugal. She has gathered international attention, winning the ‘First Award’ at The 15th International Textile and Fibre Art Biennial
“Scythia” in Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine, representing Portugal at the Biennale Internationale de Lin du Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and taking part in Biennale Objet Textile à La
Manufacture, Roubaix, France.
Her intricate art pieces capture her unique take on the human experience, emphasising the interconnectedness of individuals and their surroundings.
Megan transforms these intangible ideas into a very physical and grounded practice, mainly using a needle and thread. Through slow, repetitive stitching and lace-making, she creates
abstract forms in two and three dimensions, merging simplicity with complexity.