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ABOUT
ME

"My practice examines liminal states of human experience through intuitive painting and drawing processes that explore tension between control, surrender, and ego dissolution." 

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Woken II

My Practice

My work explores what becomes possible when the boundaries of the self begin to dissolve: the idea that the dissolution of the human ego and the unraveling of fixed constructs may allow for greater harmony with one another, the natural world, and the unknown.

Working across painting and drawing, I begin with intuitive, subconscious mark-making, allowing forms to emerge through process rather than fixed intention. As a queer artist, this open, unfixed approach reflects the tension between surrender and control that underpins my exploration of human experience, mirroring a refusal to impose rigid frameworks onto shifting realities.

Throughout the work, figures occupy threshold states where certainty dissolves and stable ideas of identity begin to destabilise. They exist between waking and sleeping, light and dark, falling and suspension, submerging and emerging.

These liminal conditions create a tension between agency and vulnerability. Figures move between intention, surrender, absorption, and displacement, framing queer experience and human identity not as fixed categories, but as unstable and continually in motion.

 

Experience

Sophie was born in West London into a family of artists. She studied at Central Saint Martins Collage of Art & Design (UAL)

2007 - 2008 Art Foundation Course. 

2008 - 2010 BA (Hons) Degree in Ceramic Design. 

Sophie's other experience includes homeware design and creative direction for brand experience. She was the co-founder of @rallidesign and has worked at Riverside Studios, Newport Street Gallery, Jack Morton Worldwide.

 

 

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Commissions

 

 

Sophie is open to commissions. Please contact her directly for more details or for an informal chat about a project or idea.

 

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