About the Artist
Sharon is based in Birmingham, UK.
Her work draws on imagery from graphic art and popular culture: typefaces, adverts, posters & films, found images and her own photographs.
Her main medium is printmaking although creative processes include photography, painting, drawing and collage. These processes cross over, for example, using prints as source material for collages and as elements in paintings. She makes print editions and also unique pieces which can be closely related to similar images in a series without becoming a print edition.
A signature device is the use of tessellation or grid arrangements: repeating images for increased visual impact often using a limited colour palette. These are sometimes combined with fabrics, wallpapers and beads as well as hand and machine sewing which blur the boundaries between printmaking and textile techniques, exploring how textures can influence the reading of her work.
All work on this website is the Copyright of Sharon Baker 1988-2011.
Automatons
These are vibrant pieces created using florescent inks on hand printed paper. The images originate from the artist’s photographs developed through large scale A1 pen and ink drawings before radically changing the scale to create intimate cartoon like depictions of toy figures or robots with spokes, cogs and wheels.
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