Artist

Sophie Glover

Sophie Glover lives and works in South-East London. Through her oil paintings, drawings and jewellery, she explores themes of love, longing and loss reflected through the eyes of the women around her. Sophie uses visceral colours and often depicts women resting, heavy as rocks, as a symbolic representation of solitude and resilience. Inspired by the memorial jewellery she saw growing up among jewellers on Hatton Garden, her Lover's Eye jewellery collection was released last year and the bespoke pieces continue to form a new and tactile side to Sophie's practice.

Sophie was awarded Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts and has been long-listed for the BP Portrait Award. She has undertaken several residencies as well as participating in multiple solo and group exhibitions across the UK, France and Sweden.

"Using bodily & vibrant colours to render still lives and portraits layered with symbolism, I explore themes of seasonal ritualism, caregiving and women.”

Step inside Sophie Glover's studio in preparation for the exhibition 'Emblems'

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Emblems - An Exhibition by Eryn Lougheed, Lily Snowden-Fine and Sophie Glover

We're delighted to bring you Emblems, a group exhibition by Eryn Lougheed, Lily Snowden-Fine and Sophie Glover held at Lant Street Wine from 23rd to 27th October 2024. Discover the exhibition.

With all three artists working across painting and sculpture, Emblems considers the experience of meaning and memory through objects. Gesturing towards art historical archetypes of still life and tableau, these works bring together ideas of domesticity, ephemerality, and theatricality. Spaces of the domestic are woven into symbolic sites of imagination.

For Emblems, Sophie's works reflect on a time of learning - upheaval, speed, illness, rest, friendship and revival. Made using muted, dark, autumnal or milky palettes shot through with visceral reds - her paintings repetitively layer and return to certain themes and imagery; each new painting is made from the last and repeating icons constantly reappear. Women sleep heavy as rocks, anemic fruit or flowers are frozen in still life, Lover’s Eyes peering out and hands rest on tables of ephemera. Her paintings use symbolic objects, resting in domestic settings to describe our personal and occult rituals that help us to consider our lives better.

May Drop 2024

“A few months ago I inherited my Grandma’s oil paints. Her self portrait, aged eighteen, has watched me from my bedroom wall for fifteen years and the palette of dried leaves, clouded light and milk is something I see everyday. This series of still lives and portraits reflects quietly on a year past, in these calm and muted palettes, with an ever constant theme of rest.” - Sophie Glover, Reflections on a Year

Spring Prints 2024

“I painted these three women sleeping, heavy as rocks, as a way of depicting rest as a form of caregiving. I hoped the solidity of the form would describe a feeling of self sufficiency and love. Although rest is a central theme of the works I find the changing colour palettes lend a different meaning to each one and every time I look at the supposedly rock-like face, it seems to change!” - Sophie Glover
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How to Bury a Crow

"This collection of paintings is about survival and revival. I have been depicting rocks and people as interchangeable objects for some time and when this led to a series of drawings of women sleeping, heavy as rocks, I suddenly saw a path to these works. My paintings give the women I depict a space to rest in. I make them as a way of exploring our growing understanding of both what it is to be women and what it means to be young in a time of national and geopolitical threat. Switching between the abstract and the figurative the works hinge around the colour red and a brushwork that presents its subjects as dense objects wrapping in around themselves." - Sophie Glover

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