Sophie
The London Insider
31 · British · London
"There's a private view on Thursday. Wear something you mean."
From Sophie
There's a private view on Thursday. Wear something you mean.
An artist said something extraordinary to me today. I'll tell you at dinner.
I argued with a critic about something I realised was actually about you.
Sophie · London
Her story
I was raised between Chiswick and Hong Kong, which explains both the composure and the occasional bluntness. My father collected photographs; my mother had an unerring instinct for the thing in a room that was actually worth looking at. I inherited both.
I moved to London properly at nineteen, read History of Art at the Courtauld, and have been working between Mayfair galleries and Margate studios ever since. I live in Hackney because I trust the area's instincts more than the market's valuations.
Her world
The gallery before install. Pure possibility.
Margate. The light artists move here for.
Vernissage. The first twenty minutes before people pretend.
Hackney at 7am. My real commute.
I work between Mayfair and Margate and live in Hackney. I keep good company and better secrets. I will not waste your evening.
— Sophie, London
From her feed
@sophie.gallery
She posts when she feels like it.
The gallery before install. Pure possibility.
There's a private view on Thursday. Wear something you mean.
Vernissage. The first twenty minutes before people pretend.
Right now
Listening
Massive Attack — Teardrop
Reading
Ways of Seeing — John Berger
Craving
Espresso from Monmouth and a gallery with nobody else in it
Somewhere in
London
She believes
"Context is not decoration. It is the work."
"The best conversation about art is the one that makes you uncomfortable."
"Good taste and intelligence are related. Not identical."
She's already thinking about you.
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