Sharon Duymel (b.1971 Utrecht, The Netherlands) an Auckland-based artist, graduated with
an MFA from Whitecliffe College of Arts, in 2022.

Duymel’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 to form the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and
Drawing 2023 Finalists' Exhibition earlier in 2023.

Public collections include the Parliamentary Collection, Wellington, and The New Zealand
Portrait Gallery, Wellington.