Sophie is a visual artist who makes objects shaped by and from her local landscape. As well as making objects she works as a food grower and has used the space of the garden to co-produce participatory events and projects around ecological relationality. Given recent times she has also been exploring ways of doing this online. She was born in 1985 and lives in the Uk.
SELECTED SHOWS & PROJECTS:
- Landscape Painting Today, Messums, London, 2024.
- A Gothic Midsummer, Roman Road with Anna Souter, 2023.
- Extraction Residency, Groundwork, 2023.
- Delta Gamma, Saatchi Gallery, 2022.
- Synergy, Platform 1 Gallery, 2022.
- Still Life, Collaboration with writer Annabel Howard, online and physical iterations continue. 2019 - Ongoing, .
- The Reciprocity Project, Collaborative online space thinking around the intersections of ecology, gender and climate breakdown, 2019-2021.
- Becoming With, Plaça Lesseps, Curated gatherings exploring ecological relationality, 2019.
- Gossip, Take Courage Gallery, Show and conversations around ecology and feminism curated with Elizabeth Langford and Louise Hildreth, 2019.
- Blanket, Groc Projects, Solo Show, 2019.
- Forage, The Rectory Projects, Two woman show with Louise Hildreth, 2018.
- A Home for All, Installation with The New Craftsmen, 2017.
- Landscape (London, Autumn), May Project, Solo show, 2017.
- Edible Utopia, Multi-disciplinary, participatory project embedding a mushroom farm along with workshops and feasting into Somerset House and Kings College, 2015- 2020.
- Soil Culture Residency, Working with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) designing and building an edible roof garden on a primary school, 2015-2017.
- Young Shoots, Group Show, touring Hauser & Wirth, The Eden Project and Kew Gardens among others, 2015-2016.
- A Portable Landscape, Cadiz, Fabelist project, 2016.
- Entropic Growth, Art, City, Landscape, Permanent installation on Les Hortillionagges, La Maison de la Culture, Amiens, 2015.
- Hoarding, Dig Collective with Real Estates at Peer Gallery, 2015.
- Weeds, Solo show, Brocket Gallery, 2015.
- Hole Story, Dig Collective dug a hole in a garden sited for demolition and produced an inverted platform for writers, artists and musicians to produce and show work, 2014.
- Masters Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, 2013.
AWARDS, TALKS & PUBLICATIONS:
- The Doing is my Undoing, Sentient Performativities Conference, 2022.
- Artist Discussion, Art Dot Earth, 2021.
- Herbal Remedies, Spring Edition of Landscape Magazine, 2017.
- Future Spaces Talk, Tate Modern, 2016. On behalf of DIG Collective.
- Soil Talks, Arnolfini Gallery, 2015.
- Art Quest Workweek Prize, 2014. With DIG Collective.
- Plants, People and Cities, STIR magazine, Issue 8, 2014.
- Dark Mountain Project, Book 4, 2014.
EDUCATION:
- Diploma, Garden Design, Chelsea Physic Garden, 2017.
- Award, Social and Horticultural Therapy, Thrive, 2015.
- MA City and Guilds of London Art School, 2012-13.
- BA equivalent, Fine Art, Charles Cecil Atelier, 2003-6.
