Sop (they/them/theirs) 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 sound, performance, writing, film and objects.
They work primarily with nature, acting as a portal, to be able to interrogate their own experience of disability and existing in a chronically ill body, and more generally how the chronically ill body interacts with and relates to nature and the natural world. Their work tends to centre modes of sociality, starting with personal narrative, then expanding through dialogue with their crip community to include other bodies’ concerns. They have an interest in esoterics and mediumship, and health practices including somatics and meditation.
They have shown work in London at Wellcome Collection, British Museum, ICA, Cubitt, LUX, Whitechapel Gallery, and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; and are 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.
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