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Sophy King

Manchester
I am a multidisciplinary artist looking at the intersection between humans and the environment.
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I am a multidisciplinary environmental artist, investigating the climate crisis, human and non-human ecologies, geological time and socioeconomic histories. I examine these through site-specific installation, sculpture, and audiovisuals, using living elements, organic and man-made materials.

My practice considers the Anthropocene/Planthroposcene, Deep Time and Vibrant Matter, moss, soil, earth, peat, wildfires, and mycelium. My work is entangled with the site-specific, deriving from particular qualities and characteristics of place, whether urban or rural. This develops into narrative, or leads to materials, intervention or image.

 

Lived Experience

Originally trained in 3D Design, I worked as a glassblower, art fabricator, set-builder, prop-maker and Landscape Architect whilst winning commissions to create art in the public realm around the UK. I developed my studio practice further with an MA in Fine Art at MMU in 2019 and a bursary to explore filmmaking from the Liverpool Biennial, since when I have been exhibiting and making site-specific work nationally and internationally.

 

The Museum of the Vibrant Collector, 2023

Boundaries/Hedges

Drought Stone

Micro Meadows

Migrants Welcome

Breathe

Talking to the Trees

Build The City (Growth and Decay)

Rehabit

Residents(Residence)

Jubilee Gardens

DNA

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