Meet the Artist: Sophy Rickett

Overview

Join us for this special event for Wolfson’s latest art exhibition ‘On Being One’, where artist Sophy Rickett will be in conversation with the exhibition's curator Professor Phillip Lindley.

Sophy Rickett is a visual artist working with photography, video installation and text. Much of her work has explored the tension between the narrative tendencies and abstract possibilities of the photographic image. Her works have a minimalist quality and create spatial plays and ambiguities that draw attention to the material nature of the photograph, rather than to the receding illusory space behind the picture plane.

'On Being One' brings together works from different series produced over the last 15 years, creating a new constellation of images and text to explore some of her ongoing interests in the new context of Wolfson College’s Combination Room.

From 'Objects in the Field' (2012) and 'The Death of a Beautiful Subject' (2016) to more recent work such as 'There it is, the Soil' (2022), her research process, which combines references to her subjective experience with primary research into specific contexts or environments that relate to archives, the heritage industry or the family archive, emerges as central to the development of her practice.

With landscape and the natural world as a backdrop, photography is evoked as a tool for seeing, processing, navigating and representing the world and its relations.

Event timings

17.30 - Exhibition viewing

18.00 - Sophy Rickett in conversation with Professor Phillip Lindley

18.30 - Drinks reception

Details

This event is open to all and is free to attend - please book your place.

Access

This event will take place in the Combination Room on the first floor of our main building. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located on the first floor of the building.

About Wolfson exhibitions

Wolfson has an established art exhibitions programme which has showcased the work of both renowned international artists and innovative emerging artists with the aim of stimulating reflection, discussion and debate.

You can find out more about exhibitions at Wolfson on the Arts page.

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