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Sophie Baker
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Degree: MA Fine Art
University: Chelsea College of Art and Design
Graduation Year: 2005
Both a painter and filmmaker, Sophie Baker is an extraordinary landscape artist, who has developed a coherent style that is instantly recognizable. Whether documenting landscapes traveled through with idiosyncratic colours and characteristic tact, or creating those wonderful paintings of nocturnal glow that capture the ephemeral and touching moments when one glimpses the fleeting landscape from the window of a car at night, Baker’s paintings are achievements. Baker’s expertise in film is evident in the atmosphere she creates through her use of light and composition.
“My paintings are rooted in the Romantic tradition, and my work concerns itself above all with a subjective and individual response to the world around me. The main themes of my painting are those of buildings reclaimed; with the terror associated with the sudden collapse of man-made structures; with the formality of gardens.
My aesthetic is played out against a backdrop of the tension between man and the natural environment, often represented in the motif of abandoned industrial sites — stripped of functionality and human purpose — left to be surrounded, filled and submerged by the relentless growth of plants. In turn, my paintings of high-roofed hot houses and formal gardens explore man’s constant attempts to bring order upon the natural world — and draw us to consider the indeterminate areas that lie between the natural and man-made.”
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Solo Exhibitions
2007, New Paintings and Film: Sophie Baker at the Waterpoint, Waterpoint Gallery, London
2007, Hold onto your Ego, Gallery 1.1, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007, Anonymous Drawings 6, Berlin, Germany
2007, meinblau e.V., Berlin, Germany
2007, Contemporary Drawings, Nunnery Gallery, London
2007, Centerfold, Zoo Art Fair, London
2007, Summer Exhibition, Waterhouse and Dodd, London
2007, Creative Collaborative Company,The Warehouse, London
2006, Group Show, Silwwex House, London
2005, Big Makes Me Feel Good, Chelsea College of Art, London
2005, MA Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
2004, Studio Artist’s Show, London Print Studio, London
2004, That floating/sinking feeling, Tudor Rd Studios, London
2004, Aubrey House Show, Aubrey House, London
2004, New Work, Kingly Court, London
2003, Transparent Process, ICA, London
2001, Pandemonium Biennial, Lux Cinema, London