Sullivan + Strumpf

In the Studio:
Jeremy Sharma
My studio is located in a building dedicated for artist studios. It is modest in size with
windows, quite untypical, and the setup changes every three years when I reconfigure
it for the types of projects I’m developing.
Right now it looks a little like a work station and jamming studio as I have many
musical instruments lying about, a little library and a section dedicated to storage. It’s
an organised mess.
I have my older works stored at the back, where I’ve built a storage system. I have
a huge work table with my electronics gear, and the other space is like a living area
when I house my musical instruments. I generally make my large drawings downstairs
in the multipurpose hall and my little ones on my kitchen table in my apartment. If it’s
video editing I do it mostly at home, too.
I try to spend time in the studio as much as I can. Right now it’s every week, but it gets
intense sometimes.
For me, art and music don’t necessarily influence each other, but I think most artists
are into music. Music is more abstract and formless and uses a different part of
your brain that goes beyond the visual field, and hence I think it’s more free. Maybe
because I’m not schooled and I don’t have to explain to anyone what my music means,
so I try to adopt that sensibility in my art. Art has crept into music for me in the way
that sound and music are legitimate disciplines or mediums in contemporary art
and interdisciplinary practice. It is really about doing what interests you. Music can
produce images and images can produce music too, either through data translation or
just imaginatively. In a way, music can be the subject of art and art can be the subject
of music.
Jeremy Sharma at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney June 10 - July 3
MAR/APR 2021