Sharon Ramsey

Quietly Quilting

2022

Used tea bags collected from families throughout Ireland

Dimensions - 200cm x 135cm x 10cm

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Take Me With You

2020

Acrylic paint, resin

Dimensions - 16cm x 16cm x 2cm

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Magnanimous Martha

2020

Nylon stockings, pillow feathers, wool yarn, bitumen tar, brush handles, concrete

Dimensions - 1.5m x .45m x .45m

(title image courtesy of Bernard O’ Rourke)

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EllIoTII

2020

Electrical cable, hemp cord, bitumen tar, cinefoil

Dimensions - 2.5m x .7m x .3m

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If Home is Where the Heart Is, My Heart is in Repair

2020

Digital photographic print on canvas

120cm x 80cm x 3cm

Place Beneath the Stage

2020

Grass seeds, compost, nylon stockings, wool yarn, hemp string

Dimensions - 3.5m x 3.5m x 4m

1.3m x .9m x .6m

(images courtesy of Bernard O’Rourke)

Practising Placelessness

2019

Multi-room installation

First room- Ikea storage boxes, domestic chimney soot, mains powered vibrators, timer

5m x 2.5m x 2.5m

Second room - bed sheets, inflatable mattresses, steel table frame, concrete, recorded ambient audio played on loop

2.4m x 1.8m x 1.8m

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8 Days a Week, an Object of Study

2019

Digital studio inventory

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Border

2018

Postcard book

A collaborative project representing the subject theme, Border. Included images were selected from an NCAD open call.

Three editions published simultaneously

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Elemental

2018

Construction safety netting, builders rope, ratchet straps, roofing bitumen paint

Dimensions - 1.5m x 1m x 3.5m

(title image courtesy of Steven Maybury)

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Lá Breá

2018

Ceramic cup, bitumen tar, pillow feathers, plaster, metal clothes hanger

Dimensions - 45cm x 20cm x 24cm

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Rebuilding Ireland

2018

Metal waste paper bin, broken and discarded measuring tapes collected from multiple construction sites

(project ongoing)

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Woven

2017

Recycled tabloid newspapers, recycled planter baskets

Dimensions - 1m x .4m x .4m

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Self-censored

2016

Video performance stills

Bread & Circuses

2017

Mirrored polycarbonate sheeting (recycled), painted timber, vinyl decal, single channel audio

Dimensions - 4.8m x 3.4m x 2.1m

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Losing Site of Cite

2016

Cotton canvas, black indian ink, wooden baton

Dimensions - 2.4m x 1.2m

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Empathy or Apathy

2016

Found and collected mirrors, reading lamp, looped audio

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Measurement of the Cube

2015

Powder coated pallet rack, recycled double glazed panes, steel, fabric dye, acrylic paint

Dimensions - 2m x .7m x 2.25m

Studio Musings

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Back to Work

Quietly Quilting

Take Me With You

Magnanimous Martha

If Home is Where the Heart Is, My Heart is in Repair

Place Beneath the Stage

Practising Placelessness

8 Days a Week, an Object of Study

Rebuilding Ireland

Bread & Circuses

Losing Site of Cite

Empathy or Apathy

Measurement of the Cube