Sophie Derrick

sophie_de@hotmail.co.uk

Education & Qualifications

2005 – 2008            University of Leeds  
B.A (Hons) Fine Art (2:1)

Summer 2005         Gap year

• Working and undertaking a voluntary work placement.
• Conserving the turtle population in Mexico and teaching English

2003 – 2004            Swindon College
Diploma in Foundation studies – Art & Design (Distinction)

Artistic achievements

9th March 2009 Shortlisted for ‘The best of the UK’ Exhibition, SaLon gallery London

•  Headhunted for this exhibition of the best graduates in the UK, sourced by the gallery who searched through the degree shows for artists. Shortlisted to the final 20 selected from 2000.

22nd February – 22nd March, Exhibition, Overview

•  Recently selected to participate in this open painting exhibition, showing ‘the standard of cutting edge painting today’ (Elysium gallery)
• Taking place in Elysium Gallery Swansea.

26th September 2008, exhibition, Second Life

• Selected out of 9000 people to take part in an online showcase, organised by Noise magazine, shown online and on the BBC big screen in Liverpool.

4th – 29th September 2008, Exhibition, Scribe

• Asked to take part in this as a result of my degree show work

6th -8th June 2008, Exhibition, Wunderkammer

• University of Leeds degree show
• Worked on the finance team to fundraise for the show

18th April – 3rd May, Exhibition, Boundary gallery prize for figurative art 2008

• Nominated by the head of my department to submit work for the exhibition. Passed through 3 rounds and was included in the final exhibition in London.

19th February 2008, Exhibition, Home from Home

• Helped organise this exhibition with 10 others from my course.

June 2003, Marlborough artists award for artistic excellence

• Nominated for the award by my tutor, and exhibited my work in the gallery.

Statement

Sophie is a recent graduate of the Fine Art course at Leeds University. Through this education Sophie has developed her Fine Art practice, which now incorporates the two mediums of painting and photography. Sophie has a great interest in the materiality and substance of paint, and execute this interest through photography, creating a juxtaposition of the two mediums. Sophie photograph the act of painting on to my skin and sometimes paint on top of the photographs, creating a layering of image of paint and painted image. Her body becomes the canvas for the paint, questioning the traditional concept of painting and portraiture, and the barriers between painting and photography. The body becomes both object and subject in the work.