 | Sophie Collier is an independent artist, content creator, illustrator, screenwriter & filmmaker, based in the UK. For more information about past, current or future activity, or for sales, commissions or to submit collaborative proposals, please email info@sophiecollier.com or connect via social media |
Education
2015 MA Fine Art (Sculpture & Moving Image), Royal College of Art, London
2002 BA Fine Art (1st class Hons), University of Oxford, (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine
Art, and St. Catherine's College, Oxford)
Past Exhibitions & Events
2018 Private film: Acousticophiles - not for general release
2015 Film night: Latching Firm, Dyson Building, London
Film Night: Latching Firm, Camden Arts Centre, London
Group Show: RCA Flux, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
Group Show: SHOW RCA 2015, Sackler Building, Royal College of Art, London
Video Screenings: Overseers, Dyson Building, RCA Battersea, London
Film Festival, Deal, Kent, UK
Group Show: Automated, Chalton Gallery, London
Group Show: Mix Realities (class of Laura O'Neill), Zona de Desgaste, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Group Show: From Here and There: Drawings from Colorado to Swansea, Elysium
Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Drawing Show: From Here and There: Drawings from Colorado to Swansea, Clara Hatton
Gallery, Colorado, USA
Film Festival: STIFF, Rijeka, Croatia
Group Show: Toride International Video Projections 2014, Toride, Japan
Group Show: RCA Secret 2014, Dyson Building, London
2013 Art Auction by Christie's, Joss Searchlight, Blackall Gallery, London
Group Show: RCA Secret 2013, Dyson Building, London
2012 Group Show: System of Objects, Departure Foundation, Gracechurch St, London
Group Show: ALCA, Old Vic Tunnels, London
Group Show: Filmideo, Index Art Center, New York
Speaker and exhibitor at Inspiring Matter 2012 conference, Royal College of Art, London
Group Show: RCA Interims Show, Royal College of Art, London
2011 Group Show: RCA Secrets, Royal College of Art, London
Drawing Show WANTED, Howie Street Project Space, London
2010 Group Show: Rhitzomatic, The Departure Gallery, London
2009 Solo Show: Reckoning, Wellington College Artsfest, UK
2008 Video Installation: Apples for Everyone, Boston Music Rooms, London
2007 Video Art, Film and Performance Festival: Fresh Fest, South Hill Park, UK
2002 Group Show: Beck's Futures Exhibition, ICA, London
Group Show: Some Kind of Deliciousness, Ruskin Schools, Oxford
Solo Show: The Tender Trap, The Dolphin Gallery, St. John's College, Oxford
2001 Video screening: Cotton Woolrus Fields, Ruskin Schools, Oxford
Live Performances, including: Plasterfaces I, II & III, Disappeared Glass Swing,
21yr old Stationary Collection is Categorised, The Making of Cotton Woolrus,
Cotton Woolrus Drilling the Beets, Stapling Myself to Space and The Raging Mouths
Group Show: Bullock Art Event Exhibition, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
Group Show: Cunliffe Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Bullingdon Rd, Oxford
2000 Group Show: Ruskin Print Show, Ruskin Schools, Oxford
Collaborations
2012 Dodgy Signal, a film made with Claire Poulter and Richard Wentworth, CBE
2011 Red Lion, Haptic Wolf and Baby Rabbit, a series of moving image works filmed at South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
2009 ArtsFest, a multi-media collaborative installation at the Institute of Modern Languages, Wellington College, UK
2001-2 Collaboration with Oxford University Media Production Unit, Oxford
2001 Painting Trees at Midnight, a nocturnal sculptural performance with artist Madeline Churchill, local woodlands, Oxford
Prizes and Awards
2010 John Moores Painting Prize, long listed
2002 Beck's Futures Film and Video Student Prize, ICA, London
2002 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, long listed
2001 Bullock Art Event 1st Prize, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
Private Collections
Works in private collections in Europe, Asia, United Arab Emirates and the USA, details on request
News Feed (now gone live)... 
24/04/16 BREAKING: all news updates will be posted on my live feed from now on! #followme
12/10/15 Glitch Maternal will be screened at Mix Realities, as part of the class of artist Laura O'Neill - 19th September, Zona de Desgaste, Mexico City, Mexico
26/06/15
20/05/15
18/05/15 Editing ahead of RCA Show 2015 - not getting much sunlight!
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2015 (in progress)
14/03/15 I have work in group show RCA Flux, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, 16-21 March
03/03/15 Taking part in this year's RCA Secret - opening 12th March - more details  03/03/2015 Latching Firm film reel will be screening in the evening in the Gorvy Leccture Theatre, RCA Dyson Building, on Tuesday 10th March, times tbc 14/02/15   14/02/15 Working title The Glitch changes to working title Boj - work continues...  Boj (working title) Screen test 9 19/11/14 Work is underway in Battersea for my 5-part video installation The Glitch  The Glitch (working title) Screen test 1 (2014, in progress) 25/07/14 I'll be exhibiting in USA and Wales in forthcoming drawing show From Here and There: Drawings from Colorado to Swansea. Venues are Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado, USA (26th September - 26th October) and Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales (28th November - 20th December 2014). More details to follow.  08/05/14 My film "Here and There" will be screened in Rijeka, Croatia as part of STIFF Film Festival, 28th May - 30th May 2014.  25/03/14 My film work "The Trout's Nest and the Oracle (Chapters 1 - 4)" is to be projected onto a specially installed video wall in a Japanese subway close to Toride Railway Station, Japan, as part of 'Toride International Video Projections 2014', 29th March 2014 - 9th May 2014. More details here soon.  24/02/14 Exhibiting in RCA Secret 2014...  Venue: Dyson Building, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AN Opening times: Thursday 13- Friday 21 March, 11am - 6pm (late opening on Thursday 20 March until 9pm) FREE ADMISSION Auction date: Saturday 22nd March, 8am - 6pm 23/01/13
24/08/12 I have work in this show...   Video Still from Dodgy Signal (2012) 5 mins 09 secs 16:9 (widescreen) 1920x1080 (1080p) HD 10/05/12 Still from on set today:  Video Still from Sleep Deeply (2012 - in progress) 15/04/12 My new video Here and There (2012) will be projected in the Old Vic Tunnels on 5th May 8pm 'til 3am. 14/04/12 My film Life Sentences (2012) will be screened TONIGHT in New York as part of Index Art Centre's Filmideo event:  30/03/12 New collaborative film Dodgy Signal (Sophie Collier, Claire Poulter, Richard Wentworth CBE) will premiere as part of the RCA's forthcoming Inspiring Matter Conference, at 16:10 on Tuesday 3rd April. Claire and I will be speaking briefly about the project, and taking questions. For more information on other speakers, venues, and how to book tickets for the conference, please visit http://inspiringmatter.org/   Video Still from Dodgy Signal (2012) 5 mins 09 secs 16:9 (widescreen) 1920x1080 (1080p) HD  Video Still from Dodgy Signal (2012) 5 mins 09 secs 16:9 (widescreen) 1920x1080 (1080p) HD 17/03/12 Just finished my new film Here and there, which is available to view online by request.  Video Still from Here and there (2012) 5 mins 53 secs 16:9 (widescreen) 1920x1080 (1080p) HD Blu-ray 17/03/12 Two stills from new video installation Reckless, which I'm currently shooting:   30/01/12 Life Sentences (2012) is now hosted on my vimeo channel. It's password protected. If you wish to view it, please message me for the password. 11/01/12 My new video installation Life Sentences screens from 11th - 18th January (inclusive) 10:00am - 5:30pm daily at the RCA Interim Show, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU Nearest tube: High St. Kensington, Buses: 9, 10 (Queen's Gate)  Video Still from Life Sentences (2012) 13 mins 3 secs 16:9 (widescreen) 1920x1080 (1080p) HD Blu-ray  2011 06/12/11 - All welcome to Open Studios:   26/10/11 See if you can guess which 3 cards are mine in this year's RCA Secret Exhibition, 18th - 26th November at the Royal College of Art, SW7. 26/09/11 Exhibiting in this drawing show:  07/09/11  Video still, Baby Rabbit and the Lion, (2011) 12/08/11:  Wishing Bone and Amygdalae*, Sophie Collier, 40 x 50 cm, mixed media on paper (2011) *amygdalae Plural amygdalae An almond-shaped mass of grey matter in the front part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum that is part of the limbic system and is involved in the processing and expression of emotions, especially anger and fear. 27/04/11 Excited to accept offer to study at Royal College of Art this September.01/03/11 Spending this week putting the final touches to a new video shot at South Hill Park:  Video still from Lion and the Haptic Wolf (2011) 23/01/11 Now on vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/sophiecollier2010 27/12/10 Naked Daisy doesn't know why there is a Recession (2010) Limited Edition Print (20) Email for details!  Naked Daisy doesn't know why there is a Recession (2010) 18/12/10 New videos currently in post-production; set for release in early 2011... 09/11/10 Filming at South Hill Park this week, and next week = in the woods. 01/11/10 WANTED - actors/assistants to take part in forthcoming films - contact me for more details. 01/10/10 Now exhibiting in Rhizomatic, 1st Oct. - 12th Nov. 2010, at the London-based Departure Gallery:  05/09/10 New studio up and running. Spending September completing a series of new paintings & doing second drafts of 3 screenplays which will become the principal focus from October. More info soon... 03/07/10 Just completed drawing/book Unkindness of Ravens (2010). This one involves 16 paper panels concertinaed together and is encased in green felt. 26/07/10 Moving studio... 05/05/10:Delighted that my painting The Black Swan Problem has been shortlisted for stage 2 of the John Moores Painting Prize 2010  The Black Swan Problem (2010) Oil on Board 2009
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