Amy Sharrocks

Amy Sharrocks is a UK based live artist, sculptor, filmmaker and curator from London, England.

She is known for large scale, live artworks in public places that use everyday activities, such as swimming or walking, in spectacular ways.

[9] Inspired by Frank Perry's film The Swimmer, Sharrocks invited people to 'swim across London from Tooting Bec Lido to Hampstead Heath ponds'.

[14] Sharrocks won the Sculpture Shock Award from the Royal British Society of Sculptors, which resulted in the exhibition Season for Falling.

The work was an open invitation for participants to fall, and questioned notions of risk and shame, and explored the complicity of acts of witness.

[16] She has recently written about the work for the journal Performance Research, in a long form essay titled 'An Anatomy of Falling',[14] which was subsequently reproduced in the Live Art Almanac.

Sharrocks and Clare Qualmann co-curated WALKING WOMEN at Somerset House, London and the Edinburgh Art Festival.

[7] The exhibition 'featured over forty women artists working with walking in a variety of media',[7]:89 including Kubra Khademi, Deirdre Heddon and Misha Myers and Mona Hatoum among others.

Tate never admitted liability, but did offer a six-figure settlement after the claim was lodged in the central London county court in January, 2022.

[28] In 2024 Sharrocks shared the results of freedom of information requests regarding reports of sexual offences committed at the Reading and Leeds music festivals in an effort to draw attention to their prevalence.