Sophie Rees

Central to my work is a deliberate unsettling of our perception of pictorial space.
The abstract values within the works relate to a history of art, which is about constantly coming up with visual metaphors for experience, much more than it is about narrating experience.

Within the works, colour, shape and reflection all conspire to create a sense of a non-place. The illusion of a continuous horizon line or arc of a plane of colour is created through the effects of lighting and arrangement, cropping or inverting the images, in order to create enigmatic documents of reality.

Within my paintings are natural and architectural forms and pattern: pattern obscuring, decorating, repeating, accidental and expressively: pattern as pattern and pattern as content. Some are given a framework; others step out across the space.

2008 BA hon’s degree fine art painting, University of Brighton

2005 Diploma in Art and Design, City of Bath College

Solo Exhibitions:

2019 North Bristol Artists, Bristol, UK

2015 Double Rainbow, Color Elefante, Valencia, Spain

2011 Monumental Shapes, Camden Collective, London UK


Group Exhibitions:

2014 A Dream Within a Dream, Pluspace, Coventry,UK

2013 Many Headed Hydra, Departure Gallery, London,UK

2013 Oriel YJB, Llandudno, Wales,UK

2010 Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London, UK

2010 Things to Come, Stour Space, London,UK

2010 East Wing 9, ‘The Art of Display’, Somerset House, London,UK

2009 Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare’s Space, London, UK

2009 Stour Space, Hackney Wicked Arts Festival, London, UK

2008 The Great Purpose, Arts Pavilion, Mile End, London,UK

2008 B.A hon’s fine art painting degree show, University of Brighton, UK

2007 ‘Is it finished yet’, Grande Parade Gallery, Brighton, UK

2006 Group show, Bromley by Bow gallery, London, UK

2005 Group exhibition, City of Bath College, Bath, UK