Sophie Barr

I grew up in the outskirts of London somewhere in the hinterland between the M25, the M1 and the A1. I was educated at Falmouth College of Art, Birkbeck College (University of London) and Kingston University. I am a practising artist with a studio at Euroart in Tottenham and teach Visual Theory at the University of East London.

I make work that is both 2D and 3D. Using photography, drawing, printmaking, digital manipulation, found objects and outmoded technology my arrangements and assemblages explore the hybridity of the image in a global digital world and my own changing relationship to the photograph.

The juxtaposition of artefacts, images and materials found in the domestic realm creates a poetics of the suburban. The objects in my arrangements are cheap, mass-produced materials, chosen both for their materiality and their metonymic power.

2009–2010 MA Fine Art with Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Kingston University (Distinction)

2001‐2003 MA Cultural and Critical Studies
Birkbeck College, University of London (Distinction)

1995‐1998 BA (Hons) Fine Art
Falmouth College of Art (2:1)