BIO
Sharon Duymel (b.1971 Utrecht, The Netherlands) an Auckland-based artist, graduated with an MFA from Whitecliffe College of Arts, in 2022.
Sharon’s practice is concerned with exploring the problematic space of being unable to use her voice. Whilst reflecting the internalisation of her own identity, from a feminist perspective, Sharon attempts to translate the complexities of the interior mind by giving a psychological reading, through the physicality of the body. She often uses the female form to invoke her female perspective of lived experience.
Sharon seeks to carve out her own space to speak about female agency, in an effort to raise awareness of her experiences and challenges as a woman today.
Sharon Duymel's work has most recently been selected as finalist in Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023 at the Manning Regional Art Gallery in Australia. Just prior to that she was selected as a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize 2023 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. She also was selected as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award for Painting and Drawing in 2023.
Public collections include the Parliamentary Collection, Wellington, and The New Zealand
Portrait Gallery, Wellington.
