Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Sophie Rogers






You need humour to survive.

“That there was an accident. It was the best mistake I ever made” Quote Kate Bush Aerial ‘An Architects dream’

Sophie Rogers lives and works near Scarborough. She studied at Yorkshire Coast College and Edinburgh College of Art and has since moved and worked between the two areas as well as travel about a bit. Rogers has exhibited here and there but not everywhere. She is passionate about art and creating alternative showing possibilities such as this exhibition.

Her work is usually inspired by her surroundings and delusional states of mind. Her works vary in medium and format from fabric hangings such as I feel like a house wife waiting to happen to PowerPoint presentation animations a medium she started using this year. She plays with art and anti art, craft et conceptualism.

In this show Rogers might show Carpet impersonating midges as well as a fence an animation made in PowerPoint presentation and Man with the longest cock (made in to a chandelier rather like a may pole), using a bit of the old fashioned stitch and bitchyness carnival craftsmanship, this in situ with Moon and mothers plates another ppt animation which was part born from thus here wee true storey…and the plates that serenade us in many a mothers kitchens and dining rooms.


Die Mont hat augen wie hange titten.

I see that the man is not there but a lady instead, a rather cheery comical big eyed face. Witnessing Luna’s many visages, I giggle, her eyes they remind me of nude sagging breasts. Laughing I ask Volka, “how do you say, ‘the moon has eyes like droopy boobs’?” I particularly like it when she is three quarters full, peeping from behind the black curtain.

1 comment:

小黒 said...

Dear Sophie,
I quite like those annoying midges, showed on powerpoint.