Sharon Peoples has worked as an artist in Canberra for over 20 years, exhibiting nationally and internationally, as well as taking on commissioned work. Her art practice focuses on stitching and textiles.

During the summer 2017/18, Sharon worked towards a solo exhibition Death of a Craft, making figurative lace-like textile structures, based on her own body. In the process, an intellectual shift occurred refocusing lace as a verb rather than a noun: as in lacing a drink or food to cause harm. In using lace-like structures she emphasises fragility as well as the deception of beauty: using beauty to tell dark stories.