4me4you Features - “SEEING OURSELVES”.

ABOUT ME

4me4you recently had the pleasure of visiting Hope 93 Gallery, which featured the artist Sharon Walters.

MY PROCESS

Sharon Walters is a London-based artist and curator whose powerful visual language reshapes the way we view race, identity, and representation. In Seeing Ourselves, she offers a deeply reflective and empowering body of work that centres the presence of Black women—voices too often overlooked or excluded within the art world and wider cultural spaces.

This exhibition is both an intimate portrait and a bold political statement, inviting viewers to reconsider who is seen, and who is made visible, in our shared narratives.

Working across a range of mediums—including hand-cut paper, collage, and multimedia installations—Walters crafts images that are at once delicate and defiant. Her materials include personal photographs, found imagery, and contributions from friends and community members, allowing each piece to carry a sense of collective memory and personal truth.
Whether monumental in scale or intimately small, her works demand close attention, transforming the everyday into powerful meditations on resilience, grace, and selfhood.

Walters’ signature paper cut-outs, suspended between layers of glass, cast ethereal shadows that speak to the often-silenced histories of Black communities.
These silhouettes are more than artistic gestures—they are assertions of presence, strength, and the right to exist fully in spaces that have historically rendered Black women invisible.

At the core of Walters’ practice is a mission to empower—to make visible what has been hidden, and to create space where Black women are not just seen, but celebrated. As an educator, activist, and advocate, her art transcends representation. It becomes reclamation.

Each piece is a testament to her commitment to normalising the presence of Black women in galleries and museums, not as anomalies but as central figures in the cultural conversation.

Seeing Ourselves is more than an exhibition. It’s a call to awareness—a challenge to reimagine the spaces we inhabit, and to recognise the beauty, strength, and complexity of the lives so often pushed to the margins. Through her work, Sharon Walters gives us not only images but insight—a lens through which to see ourselves, and each other, more clearly.

Artist: Sharon Walters

4me4you Features - “SEEING OURSELVES”.

ABOUT ME

MY PROCESS

SEE MORE: HOPE 93 GALLERY