Sophie Glover
Feature: "Felix's Workshop"

Sophie Glover lives and works in London, where she was born in 1992. She earned her degree in Drawing with First Class honors at Falmouth University. Her work has exhibited in spaces including the Liberty of Norton Folgate; Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau in Elterwater, Coombe Gallery, Gallery Tresco, and the Millenium Gallery in St Ives.

The general project of her current artwork—consisting mostly of intensely detailed drawing—is to capture movement over time through the superimposition of contour and line. As a type of anthropological investigation, she has been creating drawings of active artists’ studios, depicting artists interacting with their spaces and in turn showing how their spaces reflect the artists which inhabit them. Her not unambitious aim is to continue on recording these spaces and the artist within them, until the artists have obtained a certain kind of cultural or historical significance. Her renderings will thereby be a synchronic record of the development of the artist’s career, as well as of the artist at work in a given moment.

As she travels across the UK to visit and revisit her subjects, Glover’s drawings grow in complexity. Gradually they become as much about how the marks on the paper interact with one another as about the subject matter. This is Glover’s method for capturing movement within a space, time within an instant, and the reality within the subject. Through layers and repetition, the viewer is given a point of vantage onto the artist’s experience of time.

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Sophie Glover has been featured in shows in London, Falmouth, St. Ives, Tresco, York, Cambridge, Devon, Newlyn and Oxfordshire. She recently won the Falmouth University Reportage Illustration competition, was shortlisted for the Hermione Hammond Drawing Prize, and received a Good Story grant for young artists. More of Sophie’s work can be found online at cargocollective.com/sophieglover, and at her Clarion Gallery page.

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