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Sophie Capron
2021
Community and nature. Intrinsically linked, both are powerful, thought-provoking and emotive. Exploring, reflecting on and respecting both, my work aims to tell their stories and is all the richer for the inspiration they provide.
Community is not achieved easily, our environment is not unscarred, art does not rely on new materials and pristine tools. My art is messy and dynamic, like the community and environment that motivates me to keep producing it. From scruffy graffiti scrawled across neglected walls to street art celebrating the creativity within a neighbourhood, a community will make its mark. From tree roots defiantly pushing through fractured pavements to lichen creeping across wooden posts, nature will secure its place. These reassuring processes bring me huge satisfaction; exploring them through my work is a great source of pleasure.
The paints I work with are never new. Donated in barely delved into tins or half-filled, drip-crusted pots, they always come from my local community. Some from friends, some from organisations, the paint I receive forms a link between my artwork and the people and places it comes from. Each painting I produce is a Cornish ‘local’, inspired by where I live and made from the resources my community has given me. When one of my pieces goes to its new home, to somewhere else in the county, ‘up the line’ or even overseas, a small part of my community – our community – spreads its wings. It’s a fascinating thought.
Just as I never know what I’ll be given, my art will never be predictable. Like the nature around me and the community I find myself in, it is ever-changing and ever-rewarding.
‘Revealed’ collaborative show with Ashley Hanson, The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, April 2023
Solo show ‘Past and present’, Artwave West Sept 2022
Solo Show, ‘Rejuvenation’, Art wave West May 2021
Solo Show ‘Time Reclaimed’, Artwave West, Aug 2019
Ballroom Arts Show, Artdog London, Adleburgh, Aug 2023
Associate Members Summer Show, Penwith Gallery, St Ives July 2023
Spring Cultivator Show, Lemon St Market, Truro, May 2023
Affordable Art fair, Artdog London, May 2023
‘Engage’, NSA exhibition, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, April 2023
‘Spring Show’, Artdog London, Feb 2023
‘Visions of Sugar Plums’, AKA Contemporary, Cambridge, Dec 2023
Winter Group Show, Artwave West, Dec 2023
Associate Members Winter Show, Penwith Gallery, St Ives , Nov 2022
‘Repurpose’, Heseltine Gallery, Truro Sept 2022
‘The Map is not the Territory’, NSA Sept 2022
Affordable Art fair -Artdog, London, Oct 2022
Associate Members Summer Show, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Aug 2022
Ballroom Arts with Artdog London, Aldeburgh, Aug 2022
NSA exhibition ‘Memory’, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, April 2022
NSA 125th Year Anniversary exhibition, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Penzance, Oct 2021
‘We Will Survive’, Jupiter Art Gallery, Newlyn, May 2021
Summer show, Artwave West, July-Sept 2020
Spring Exhibition, Artwave West, March 8th, 2020
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall, Deal, Kent, Dec 7th, 2019
Painting Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London, Dec 5th, 2019
‘Imagine Falmouth’ Falmouth Art Gallery, Nov 2019
Grosskrientfernung Mail Art exhibition, Tete project space, Berlin July 2019
Falmouth Art Gallery, July 2019
Spring exhibition, Artwave West, Dorset, March 2019
Colour and Light, Artwave West, Dorset, Aug 2018
The Other Art Fair, in association with Saatchi Art, Bristol, July 2018
Light and Weight, Artwave West, Dorset, May 2018.
‘Imagine Falmouth’ exhibition, Falmouth Art Gallery, Nov-Jan 2017
‘A Journey into The Abstract’, Artwave West, Nov 2017 group show.
Fuse, Neoteric Collection, Bazemore Gallery, Philadelphia, America, April 2017
Spring group show, Artwave West, Dorset, March 2017
5th International “Biennale on Women in Contemporary Art”, Larmor-Plage Dec 2017
Trelowarren Gallery, Helston, March 2016
Galerie du Faouedic, Lorient Aug 2015
Selected as one of the top 10 emerging artists by Rebecca Wilson, chief curator at Saatchi Art 2018.
‘Better Together’ – ‘Revealed’ exhibition. Drift Magazine Spring Edition, Drift 29 p 32-43, April2023
‘Ghosts of conversation past’, Time spent with Sophie Capron is a reminder that’s Life’s mysteries are a very good thing, Cornwall Today Magazine Nov 2017.
Picture Berlin, 2018
