Sophie Adams - Figurative Paintings In Oil On Canvas

Hi,

Welcome to my website.

Here you will find a selection of my paintings and drawings from 2009 onwards. I try and update the site regularly with current and past work.

For insight on my work please see the About page.

For any questions, suggestions, exhibiting opportunities or for information about the price and size of any piece please click on this link contact@sophieadamsart.com.

Thanks,

Sophie Adams

Works for Sale and Commissions Taken Please Contact: contact@sophieadamsart.com

EDUCATION

2009 MA in Visual Arts and Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, at West Dean College awarded by University of Sussex
2007 BA in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London
2000 B-Tec Foundation Course Certificate in Art, Wimbledon School of Art, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

May 2013 Bloodlines , Walcot Chapel, Bath, Somerset
November 2011 Young Artists Partnership at the Garage, Chelsea, London
July 2010 Unity Arts Trust Studios, The Oxmarket Centre for The Arts, Chichester, West Sussex
September 2009 MA Degree Show, West Dean College, West Sussex
July 2009 Sedition Hushed, The Guildhall, Chichester, West Sussex
May 2009 Used/Redeemed, Curator's flat, Hampstead, London
October 2007 Rising Stars, The Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon
August 2007 Gissings Insurance Company, Finsbury Square, London
June 2007 BA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London

PRIZES

2006-2007 William Coldstream Memorial Prize, Slade School of Fine Art

COMMISSIONS

On-going Friends of Friendless Churches Drawing Commission
April 2010 and January 2009 Portraits commissioned by client
June 2009 Set of 6 drawings for private collector
March 2009 Edition of 30 prints for Chichester Writing Festival

RESIDENCIES

March-April 2008 Artist in Residence, West Dean College, West Sussex

COLLECTIONS

Langham Gallery, Russell Square, London
The Strang Print Collection, University College London, London
Ancient Monuments Society, The City, London
Edward James Foundation, Chichester, West Sussex

PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES

Strang Library at UCL Print Collection Archive
Uncooked Culture
Outside In
Langham Gallery
London Artist’s Quarter

"My skin doesn’t feel so porcelain now."
Extract from an untitled poem by Sophie Adams

This quote relates to my art being drawn from my own lived experiences, giving a transcendent, transformative power. As I paint, I learn.

"A man who owns a comb and a tree / Is good for poetry/ Everything that leads to nothing at all/ And that you cannot sell at the market /Such as, for instance, the green heart of birds, /Is good for poetry /Everything that our civilization rejects, /Tramples and pisses on, is good for poetry / Self-moving debris, cans, is good for poetry /Discarded things are very important— Things with no importance are poetic assets."
Extract from ' The Expositive Grammar of the Floor' by the poet Manuel De Barros.

This quote reminds me to sustain in myself a spirit of curiosity, an openness of mind. That the most banal things- especially those things, ideas, people, emotions, objects that are considered unimportant and useless to selfish economic gain and progression do have a poetics, an inspirational power. I aim to look everywhere and without bigotry or fashionable concerns.

If I were to tag my paintings, or try to encapsulate the general themes I address, they would be; identity, dreams, womanhood, childhood, metaphysics, erotica, sexuality, distress, secrecy, revelation, diaries, humour, and expressing my experiences in an attempt to find some common ground with others.

Artists whose work I like include Francesco Clemente, Karel Appel, Charlotte Salomon, Marlene Dumas, Goya, Lindsey Bull, Otto Dix, Balthus, Philip Guston, Jonathan Meese, and Lygia Clarke.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions at contact@sophieadamsart.com

Text by Sophie Adams 2013