Sophie was"Artist in residence"
at Kingswood school in Bath in 2003/4. She has been exhibiting
in galleries, sculpture parks and festivals since 1997 and
has done several commissions in the U.K and abroad.
Recent local exhibitions have been at Westonbirt Arboretum,
Quenington, and The Affordable Artfair, and her work is held
permanently at sculpture parks in Broomhill, Devon and Farenham.
Sophie
decided to follow her passion for sculpture after graduating
with a language degree at Nottingham university and went to
the Elizabeth Frink School of Figurative Sculpture
in Stoke-on-Trent.
She followed this with a postgraduate course at the Cyprus
College of Art before setting up studio in Temple
Cloud near Bath in 2001. She has since spend a year in a studio
at
Spike Island and is now at The Robinson
Building in Bristol.
Sophie
works in plaster, life-size, half life-size and smaller. She
casts all her own work having aquired these skills working
at Pangolin Bronze Casting Foundry near Stroud
and Opus Resin Casting Studio in Temple Cloud.
Sophie has had studios in Temple Cloud, near Bath, Spike
Island and the Robinson Building in Bristol and currently
at Widcome Studios in Bath. |