Recent Publications
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Soul Art: a manual for delivering art and wellbeing retreats and workshops to the community. Available to buy for £10.99 from https://www.ionabooks.com/product/soul-art/
Everyday Sacrament: a reflective collection of art meditations created during the pandemic and commissioned by Leeds Sanctuary. Available to buy for £7.50 from https://leedssanctuary.sumup.link/product/everyday-sacrament
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Recent Exhibitions:
Re/a/dress
September 2023
Installation and community event considering our place in the community of the created world.
Then I'll Begin
April 2023
Wakefield Cathedral
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An exhibition exploring lamentation in all its forms: mourning, memorial, loss and hope.
"I’ve been moved to tears by music many times but rarely by art works." "As a viewer I felt like it gave you permission to acknowledge in ourselves the capacity for the kind of outpourings that we tend to avoid in the UK"
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This body of work began over fifteen years ago, when I started to notice more public outpourings of grief in the form of flower votives left by the side of a road. It felt that people were not being given the opportunity to mourn their sadness and were finding their own ways to share this with others around them, even the stranger in a passing car: that maybe our modern world still had one taboo, which was death. Since then, the project has expanded to be an exploration of lament and the need to mourn that which is wrong in society generally; not only the passing and back story of those we love, but also the death of those who remain unnoticed and unaccounted for, the death of our planet, the death of community, the death of care, the death of justice. Long before covid hit, mental health issues were already on the rise, our health service was stretched to breaking point, poverty increasing, our communities fragmented. If anything, the pandemic has offered a counter story of hope in the prevailing spirit of humanity against all odds, including the injustices of the world we live in.
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I recently heard someone call mourning a form of dissent: a way of recognizing that which is wrong and allowing the sorrow we feel to galvanize us into proactivism. Or, in the words of another, “Lament is the beginning of change”. If this is so, then maybe this exhibition goes some way to affect us for the better. It is a lamentation but also a celebration: for we have it in our hands to bring about change and hope. The show will be touring, dates and venues to be announced.
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Images below show the exhibition at Wakefield Cathedral.
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To see the contents of Gag (artist's book) please follow this link
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LINKS
https://www.saw-newcastle.org/sharon-caron-rose/
http://sonjavank.com/takecare/?fbclid=IwAR2xXkhWcY0X6qceczZ-npsEmDyslXXgdT9DpVO5ObKIJAbznzACZ3Cx1YE
http://www.artistsbooksonline.com/index.shtm
https://leedsmethodistmission.co.uk/blog
https://www.shinewestbowling.org.uk/local-history-art
https://keepsakeexhibition.wordpress.com/
http://leftbankleeds.org.uk/artist-interview-shaeron-caton-rose/
http://www.cupolagallery.com/events/2017/10/20/amid-by-shaeron-caton-rose
https://www.axisweb.org/p/shaeroncatonrose/
http://www.notjusthockney.info/caton-rose-sharon/
https://www.curatorspace.com/artists/shaeroncatonrose
http://christianartstrust.org/2016/02/17/shaeron-caton-rose/
https://www.henshaws.org.uk/blog/the-benefits-of-art-making/
http://www.yvan.org.uk/shaeron-caton-rose-4-8-4/
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solo exhibitions
2023. Re/a/dress St Johns Bilton
2023. Then I'll Begin Wakefield Cathedral
2021. Then I'll Begin Dye House Gallery Bradford
2019. Taste and See Leeds University Chaplaincy
2018 Shrive St Stephen's Church, Bradford. St John the Baptist, Knaresborough
2017. Amid. Cupola Gallery Sheffield
2017. Amid. Left Bank Leeds
2015. Ordinary Time. Community of the Resurrection Mirfield
2015. Tears of the Angels. Leeds Light Night
2015. Tears of the Angels. St James Crypt Wetherby
2015. Glossary. Saltaire Arts Trail
2014. Sticks & Stones. Greenbelt Arts Festival
2012. Procession. Kirkstall Abbey Leeds
2010. Salutation. Pembroke College Cambridge
2010. Salutation. Wallspace London
2007. Mirror. Cliffe Castle Keighley
2006. Mend 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe
2005. Wayside Shrine. At service stations along the M62
2004. Mirror. Ferens Art Gallery Hull
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group exhibitions
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2021 Tiakina /Take Care Papakura Art Gallery Aukland NZ
2021. Un/seen SAW Newcastle
2021 Take Care ArtHaus Orakei Auckland. International artists in collaboration with NZ artists
2018. Keepsake Bradford Cathedral
2018 Crossings Southwell Minster
2017. Invasive. With Sherry Doyal, Feva Arts Festival, Knaresborough
2013. Exhibition for Beginners. Black Dogs Arts Collective Bradford
2011. EverAfter. Home from Home Leeds
2011. EverAfter. Duple Lives, Double Trails, Malt Cross Gallery Nottingham
2011. Three Sisters. West Leeds Festival
2010. Sticks & Stones. York Minster
2010. EverAfter. Cabinet of Curiosities Leeds Artist's Book Fair
2009. Immaculate. Left Bank Leeds
2009. Tied. Bradford College of Art
2008. Transform With Katie Jones, Delius Centre Bradford
2007. Colourblind. with Tehmina Shah RGB, South Square Gallery Thornton
2007. Wayside Shrine. Light Night Leeds
2007. Wayside Shrine. STIR Festival Bradford
2007. Celestial. Intersection, Dye House Gallery Bradford
2006. Sleeping Partner. Leeds Art Gallery
2005. Throw Away. VSF Glasgow
2004. Colourblind. Multiples shows, Lowry Centre Salford, Saltburn Art Gallery
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residencies
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2017. Foster Academy Bradford
2016. Iona Community, Argyll Scotland
2016. SHINE Community Charity. Bradford
2015. The Community of the Resurrection Mirfield
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social works
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2023. .artmaker Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre
2022. .artmaker Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre. Touring to Sunnybank Mills Leeds & Rural Arts Thirsk
2018. Delight Installation & Community Event. Artworks, Bradford
2017. Women for Peace. Bradford Peace Museum, showing at Oxford & Ely Cathedrals
2017. Wood for the Trees. Forster Academy Bradford
2017. The Mustard Tree. Commission SHINE Comment Charity Bradford
2016. Flock. SHINE Community Charity Bradford
2015. Glossary. Henshaws Arts & crafts Centre Knaresborough
2014. Can Do Tour de France project, Leonard Cheshire Society
2013. Round Table. Women's project with Gallery II Bradford University
2011. No Limits. Dementia project with Southampton University, touring show​
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workshops / retreats
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2021. ReCreate wellbeing retreats to Growing Rooms, All Hallows and Rainbow Junction, Refugee Council, Leeds
2019. Circle of Friendship: Interfaith quilting project, Touchstone Centre Bradford
2019. Sensory Garden, SHINE Community Charity Bradford
2018. Sanctuary: Women, Faith and Peace Workshops, Bradford Peace Museum
2018. Art & Spirituality Retreat. Community of the Resurrection
2017. Wild City Retreats. Leeds Church Institute
2017. Women for Peace workshops, Bradford Peace Museum
2017. Art Retreats, Amid. Sheffield and Leeds
2017. Printmaking workshops. Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre
2017. Refugee Away Day. Millenium Dales Trust
2016. Flock. Artist's residency and community workshops SHINE Community Charity
2015. Building Hope. Hillsborough Congregational Church Sheffield
2012. Community workshops, in-house training Touchstone Centre Bradford
2012. Interfaith Residentials. Millenum Dales Trust
2011. Workshops 'No Limits' Dementia Project
2011. Community Mosaic. SHINE Community Charity Bradford
2005. Visions Inner City Project. Touchstone Centre Bradford
2000. Cross-Culture. CMS Bradford Cathedral & Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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2008-2015 various art & spirituality retreats across Bradford, Seedbed Trust
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education
1986. BA Hons Printmaking Sheffield City Polytechnic
1987. PGCE Art Teaching (secondary). Bretton Hall College
1995. MA Fine Art. Humberside University
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