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Sophie Martin (b. 1999, Leeds) is a Yorkshire based artist who considers a scope of 2D and 3D approaches to painting through processes of layering and building structures. Her practice explores autobiography, often placing images of the self alongside reflections on the traits of introversion - feelings of being unseen or unheard in day-to-day life. In a merging of painting with photography through double exposures, Martin identifies contradictions between the physical and the cognitive, presence and absence. Her paintings are defined by an overloading of imagery and a muted colour palette which seem to wash away the figure. The resulting images are worked into through a variety of delicate and easily manipulated materials which offer a vulnerability and a sense of humanness in their fragile and skin-like quality.
Education
Creative Experience
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Gallery Team Member, March 2022 - Present.
Sheffield Museums Collections Volunteer, Present.
Sheffield Museums Gallery Visitor Assistant, December 2021 - March 2022.
Converge, Art: Drawing on Life Student Volunteer, January 2020 - June 2021.
Art Behind the Screen, May 2020.
Maggie's Culture Crawl Leeds Volunteer, September 2017.
Awards & Accolades
Art Dissertation Award York St John University 2021.
Freelands Painting Prize Nominee 2021.
Art Fairs & Markets
South Bank Studios Winter Fair : 13th November 2021, Southlands Methodist Church, 97 Bishopthorpe Road, York, YO23 1NX
Art in the Gardens : 4th - 5th September 2021, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Broomhall, Sheffield, S10 2LN
York River Art Market : 26th June 2021,
Dame Judi Dench Walk, Lendal Bridge, York, YO1 7DR
Features
The Record Press: Loud Art Live, March 2022.
TSDAP's New Graduates: 2021 Edition, July 2021.
Aesthetica, June 2021.
© 2022, Sophie Martin Art