ABOUT
Sharan is an established event professional with a focus on entertainment, arts and culture. She has overseen live entertainment shows, arts exhibitions, music and cultural events, product launches, award ceremonies, and luxury brand activation's to government and royal events.
Sharan has over 15 years’ experience working as an Public Arts Officer in the UK supporting arts organisations in raising capital and project funding, programming, project management, marketing, production, event operations, technical and logistics management.
She also has considerable international experience having worked in the UK, Spain, Portugal, France, United States, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. As part of the 2006 15th Asian Games Doha, she organized a city-wide program of local and international visual arts exhibitions that ran alongside the Olympic-scale event.
Based in Dubai for 11 years she worked with leading event management agencies, executing productions for high-profile brands including, Miu Miu, Prada, de Grisogono, Sotheby's, Christie's, Audemars Piguet, Pandora, HSBC, Flash Entertainment, BMW, Rolls Royce, The Dubai Mall, and the Dubai Executive Council.
Sharan was born and raised in the UK. She has a B.A Honors in Visual Communications specializing in photography, art, and design. She has a post-graduate scholarship in Art Exhibition Management from the Arts Council England - Midlands and Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museum Services, UK.
EARLY INSPIRATIONS
Growing up in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, the radio was always playing and the music never stopped. Sharan's musical interests were wide-ranging from Funk, Reggae, R&B, and Punk to world music. It was not just the music that inspired her, but the many creative aspects of the industry - the artists, the album art, the photography, graphics, lyrics, visuals, videos to the live stage productions.
Other inspirations came from classic Hollywood glamour, in particular the musical films of the 1940s and 1950s. Seeing Gene Kelly create epically choreographed dance pieces against the backdrop of Hollywood productions and elaborate set designs directed Sharan to pursue a career in the visual arts.
During her studies at art school, she became enamoured by 1960s Vogue fashion and lifestyle photographer, Horst P. Horst who was renowned for photographing some of Hollywood's greatest actors such as Marlene Detrich and Bette Davis. His photograph of the ''The Mainbocher Corset" was to be later replicated and resurrected by Madonna in her music video ''Vogue'' - another significantly influential artist.
From her early inspirations until the present day, Sharan continues to seek out creative talent in all artistic genres to join forces, collaborate, and create.
