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.
