Sophie Bryer
MA Art and Science
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Sculpture / Printmaking
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sophie Bryer
First Name: Sophie
Last Name: Bryer
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Sculpture / Printmaking
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My Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: MA Art and Science
About
Sophie is a conceptual, interdisciplinary artist who negotiates the exchange between art and science using an autoethnographic approach. With a background in philosophy, she engages with questions surrounding identity through the examination of its negative space – articulating the influence of one’s environment, the enduring impact we have on others and in our creations, and the remnants and emotional resonance that persist in our absence. As such, the very concept of one's identity she finds to be in a constant state of flux and regeneration - never concluding, always transforming.
Drawn to post-structuralist constructivism, she abstracts and investigate themes of identity, memory and legacy with materiality – creating installation works which integrate photography, printing, etching, and sculpture often combining steel and textile.
Through her career, alongside commission work, she has exhibited at the University of Glasgow, at the Hevelianum Gdansk Festival of Light in Poland, and across multiple locations in London.
An articulation of memory found in the negative space, Finding You Here concludes a two-year autoethnographic investigation into life’s continuity and emotional resonance through people, place, and works created by an individual – exploring how we live on in these fragments left behind. Archived moments are suspended in the present, traces etched into curved surfaces which echo the academic work of a grandfather never known, while Lancashire yarn weaves threads of enquiry between them – mapping a life from Burnley to Bristol, to the white sands of Morar. ["I Find You Here" Mechanical theory etched in chalk A theory of memory etched into steel Life deconstructed, examined, Woven Suspended By threads of forefathers, Mothers and aunts - Hands raw I collect what you left behind - Scattered fragments, Fleeting memories, Diagrams explained in a language I cannot learn; I look for you. Yarn taut in loom - As taut mind, and furrowed brow The chalk drops, Thread unravels The music ends. Your hills roll on, Your daughter sings, Journals remember your name I find you here.]
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