Sharon Duymel Art | Frame Workshop & Gallery Herne Bay

Sharon Duymel

PAINTER / COROMANDEL

BIO

About Sharon Duymel

Sharon Duymel is an Auckland-based artist born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1971. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College of Arts in 2022. Her figurative practice explores identity, voice and female agency, using the physical body to give form to the complexities of inner experience.

Working from a feminist perspective, Duymel considers the difficulty of being unable to use her voice and the ways identity is internalised. The female form is central to her work, expressing a personal perspective on lived experience and the relationship between psychological and physical states.

Through her practice, she seeks to create a space to speak about female agency and bring attention to the experiences and challenges of being a woman today.

In 2023, Duymel was selected as a finalist in the Naked & Nude Art Prize at Manning Regional Art Gallery in Australia, the Parkin Drawing Prize at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award for Painting and Drawing. Her work is held in public collections including the Parliamentary Collection and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, both in Wellington.

Browse Sharon Duymel’s available works below, or enquire about a piece.