Feb 13 to March 12, 2025. Parkes Visitor Centre. Sharon Degeling is an artist from Forbes in the Central West. With a background in Visual Arts education, Sharon likes to explore various mediums in her artistic practice, including textiles, printmaking and ceramics.
With a main focus on fibre arts, her work includes hand embroidery and free motion machine stitching, where she ‘draws’ with the needle. Sharon incorporates printing techniques, often hidden beneath the torn and layered pieces of fabric that she has collected over the years, creating a montage of colour, texture and pattern.
Her work explores invisible illness, the hidden aspects of life and the many layers that make up who we are, as well as the small fragments we reveal of ourselves drowning in the complexities of our condition, and grieving the loss of functionality, the loss of life and the feeling of brokenness.
1: ‘Raw’, 2022
fabric, thread, wool
2: No More, 2025
fabric, thread, wool, medical gauze
3: Protect, 2022
fabric, wool, thread, medical gauze
4: Mini hoop pendants, 2025
fabric, thread.
Pictured: ‘Raw’ 2022 fabric, thread, wool Sharon Degeling