Latest Shape collaboration: Sop was a selected artist for the ARA Shortlist in 2024. They were a featured artist in 2022's Shape Open, In The Mirror and was selected for the 'Shards' event at the British Museum.

Artist Statement: Sop is a torn and crooked leaf, a root embedded in the dirt, a shoot reaching to the sky. An artist working in crip time with words, sound and moving image.

They work primarily with nature which they use as a portal to interrogate their own experience of existing in a chronically ill body, and how other disabled and chronically ill bodies interact with and relate to nature and the natural world. Their work tends to centre modes of sociality, beginning with personal narrative, then expanding through dialogue with their crip community to include other bodies’ concerns. 

They are currently working towards a book about grief, gender, chronic illness and ghosts, and a moving image work about crip sex and volcanos.

They have shown work at Wellcome Collection, British Museum, ICA, Cubitt, LUX, and Whitechapel Gallery; and their work is included in publications ‘Documents of Contemporary Art: Walking’. Ed. Tom Jeffreys; ‘Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us’, by Paul Dobraszczyk and ‘Bodies of Sound’. Eds. Irene Revell and Sarah Shin.

They are anti-clock, pro-informal-networks-of-care; anti-normality/standardisation; pro-interpersonal-dedication.

They live and work in South East London.

Image from 'Pneuma (Revisited), 2022'

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Banner image: Portable Den, 2021, photo: Wellcome Collection. Image description: The outline of a body lying on the floor is covered in a layer of brown leaves. The room around them is empty with a white wall and brown wooden floorboards.