Sophia Kaur Hambleton-Grey
Statement
Sophia Kaur creates large-scale oil paintings that subvert traditional dynamics of observing women by depicting herself nude with agency and confidence, reciprocating the gaze. Painting from imagination and photography, her work portrays multiple versions of herself supporting and blending into one another, embodying sisterhood and universality. She depicts a multiplicity since her identity is splintered from existing between Western binaries, facing contradictory cultural pressures, and the tension between conforming or rejecting societal labels and norms. She is interested in the shift of identity between different public, private and online spaces. Through installation, Sophia creates portals to a world where her multiple selves can coexist free from conventions. Influenced by third space theory, this world is a liminal space-time between race, gender, and sexuality. Using a vibrant colour palette and translucent layers, she invites viewers into a space of unsettling familiarity that is neither human nor alien.
Sophia Kaur creates large-scale oil paintings that subvert traditional dynamics of observing women by depicting herself nude with agency and confidence, reciprocating the gaze. Painting from imagination and photography, her work portrays multiple versions of herself supporting and blending into one another, embodying sisterhood and universality. She depicts a multiplicity since her identity is splintered from existing between Western binaries, facing contradictory cultural pressures, and the tension between conforming or rejecting societal labels and norms. She is interested in the shift of identity between different public, private and online spaces. Through installation, Sophia creates portals to a world where her multiple selves can coexist free from conventions. Influenced by third space theory, this world is a liminal space-time between race, gender, and sexuality. Using a vibrant colour palette and translucent layers, she invites viewers into a space of unsettling familiarity that is neither human nor alien.
Biography
Sophia Kaur (b. 2001, London) is a London-based artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2022. She has exhibited in various London and Oxford shows, including Magdalen College’s Oscar Wilde party, ‘Taste the Difference’ at Hypha Studios, ‘No Longer Not Yet’ at Take Courage Gallery, and ‘Elseworld’ at Aures. In 2020, she won an award for the collaborative video ‘MIXER//SHREDDER’ at EMPRES: Art of V(irtual) Noises, Modern Art Oxford.
Sophia Kaur (b. 2001, London) is a London-based artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2022. She has exhibited in various London and Oxford shows, including Magdalen College’s Oscar Wilde party, ‘Taste the Difference’ at Hypha Studios, ‘No Longer Not Yet’ at Take Courage Gallery, and ‘Elseworld’ at Aures. In 2020, she won an award for the collaborative video ‘MIXER//SHREDDER’ at EMPRES: Art of V(irtual) Noises, Modern Art Oxford.
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Degree Show Location: Barriedale Building B (Studio B)
Sunyata, oil on canvas, mdf, acrylic paint, 265 x 150 cm, 2023