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Sophy King

Manchester
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, investigating climate crisis & more-than-human ecologies through site-specific installation, sculpture and audiovisuals; using living elements, organic and man-made materials.
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I’m a multidisciplinary artist, investigating climate crisis & more-than-human ecologies through site-specific installation, sculpture and audiovisuals; using living elements, organic and man-made materials.

My interest in ecosystems led me to plants, moss and fungi as sculptural medium and subject. This human/non-human collaboration challenges me; I compose structure, but relinquish control as the agency of living materials supersedes my proposition. 

I’m involved in collective, collaborative relationships; filming and recording wild swimming with a group of women since lockdown; Mossworlds (multidisciplinary research project with University of Manchester academics); the SPARK Artist’s Network; & Para-Lab (collaboration between artists & scientists). I’ve recently had a major institutional collaborative exhibition as The Guardians of Living Matter at LOWRY, Salford concerning AI & Plant Intelligence

My work is entangled with the site-specific, developing into narrative, or leading to material, intervention or image; acknowledging that no place exists without the species and cultures that shape it. 

I explore Radical Hope & Thrutopias as approaches to the ecoverse. I promote lower-carbon art-making, through material choice & careful consideration of technology.

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.

 

Bureau of Entanglement

Behold... The Emergence of Oracle

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)

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Take Me Back To When The World Made Sense

By JC Candanedo

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