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daytrip museums at night with amy sharrocks
Amy Sharrocks is a UK based live artist, sculptor and filmmaker from Camden, London. Sharrocks' work focuses on collaboration and exchange, and she uses everyday activities, such as walking or swimming, to create memorable experiences for participants. She is known for large scale, live works in public places, including a 50-person swim across London for SWIM (2007)
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Water
For the last 12 years, Sharrocks has made live artworks about people and water. She is creator of the award winning Museum of Water (2013), 'a collection of publicly donated water and accompanying stories', in which the public is invited to browse the collection and add their own water samples and stories; as of 2016, the collection includes over 700 bottles. The piece has toured throughout Europe and was featured at London's Somerset House in 2014.Her piece drift (2009-2010, 2015), toured swimming pools throughout the United Kingdom, including an overnight drift in the London Aquatics Centre at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She is currently organising interest for, Swim the Thames, an annual, inclusive, all-ages, live art event that asks participants to swim in the Thames River.
Falling
Sharrocks also makes work about falling, exploring the trips and stumbles of everyday life; she focuses not only on the physical act of falling, but also the conceptual framework around the experience and meaning of falling. In 2012, Sharrocks hosted a Study Room Event at the Live Art Development Agency called A Guide to Falling; a full slide show is available at the LADA Study Room. Sharrocks won the Sculpture Shock Award from the Royal British Society of Sculptors, which resulted in the exhibition Season for Falling. She also created An Invitation to Fall on Kings Road with the Museum of London, which was an open invitation for participants to fall.
Walking
Sharrocks is a member of the Walking Artists Network, and has been interviewed by Andrew Stuck for the Talking Walking podcast. She is co-curator with Clare Qualmann of WALKING WOMEN (2016) at Somerset House and the Edinburgh Arts Festival.