Sophie Giller completed a BA in Painting at Camberwell College of the Arts and an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2021).
Her work has been shown in galleries including the ICA, Saatchi Gallery, and Standpoint Gallery, has been featured in The Times, World of Interiors, and Time Out, and is held in private collections. She was awarded Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015 and shortlisted in 2022. In 2021, she received the Gilbert Bayes award for sculpture.
Sophie Giller works across the mediums of sculpture, textiles, expanded painting and installation. Her work emphasises process, labour, care, domesticity, hierarchies of art mediums, emotion, and the social history of everyday materials.
Her practice involves collecting and reacting to materials autobiographically and intuitively. She’s interested in the sentimentality and emotion preserved in leftover items. Recently, she has been creating site-specific works by researching the historical and social contexts of place, architecture and location and making installations that resound and relate to the interior features of the space.
Her work explores the ‘in-between’: the boundaries and ambiguities between different art disciplines and material media, she combines various methods, concepts and contexts across different bodies of work.