Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Sophie Gabrielle is a Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) based contemporary photographer and curator. Interested in the intersection between photography, memory and myth-making, Sophie uses archive, organic matter and portraiture to investigate the world of the unseen and create space in which the past and present co-exist. With research as a core part of their practice, Sophie’s work uses the connotation of photography to create an open dialogue on themes that have a personal connection to the artist and a broader perspective on the history of the subject.

Sophie Gabrielle lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and pays their deepest respects to Elders past and present and acknowledges that sovereignty was never ceded.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

During the three months at GlogauAIR, Sophie intends to explore the connection of mycelium and human connection in a social and historical context. Interested in the organisms power of transformative inspiration and deep-time sense of belonging, this new work intends to capture the feminine knowledge of the fungi. In Western society structures, historically women have been custodians of ecological knowledge through foraging practices. However, many voices were silenced from formal participation in Science and were oen dangerously cast aside as ‘witchcra’. This project aims to reclaim this space using the fruiting bodies of the mycelium cultivated at GlogauAIR through archive images of male mycologists.

CV Summary

Sophie Gabrielle is a Naarm-based contemporary photographer and curator. Their work uses archive and the human body to investigate the connection between photography, history, memory and psychology. Their work has been exhibited in Australia, Malaysia, The Netherlands, France, Germany, South Korea, the USA and the UK. Notable commissions and collaborations of Sophie’s work are The New Yorker -Fiction Issue, July 2021, cover art for The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra’s Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid, 2020) and Uk musician Seabuckthron’s album Through a vulnerable occur was produced as a companion piece to the Ikki Selects photobook by the same name containing a curated selection of Sophie’s work. They are a Foam Talent recipient (2018) and a finalist for the Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards (2016).

They are also a board member of Good Moon Rising, a non-profit creative collective that creates safe spaces for gender-diverse artists and musicians to be celebrated in Melbourne. They have obtained a Masters in Arts Management from RMIT focussing on curation and community engagement within galleries and a Bachelor of Photography majoring in Fine Art.

Awards:

2018: Lensculture Fine Art Semi-Finalist
2018: Foam Fotografia Emerging Talent Award
2017: Center Of Contemporary Photography – Most Powerful Image – Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat 2017: Best Composition – Emerging Artists – Australian Catholic University
2016: Lensculture Emerging Talent finalist
2016: Center Of Contemporary Photography – Best Fashion Image
2015: Greatest Achievement in Fine Art Major – Photography Studies College

Exhibitions:

2022: máthair mhór, Solo exhibitio, Edge Galleries, Maldon, Australia
2021: Worry for the fruit the birds won’t eat solo exhibition, Scope Gallery, Hannover Germany. 2020: The Things I Tell You Will Not Be Wrong Group exhibition, Scope Gallery, Hannover Germany.

2020: Beyond the cosmos emerging artist feature Photo Basel, Switzerland represented by Galerie &co119 2019: Solo of selected works, Galerie &co119

2019: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat -Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Frankfurt, Germany. 2019: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat – Center Of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2019: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat – Vauxhall Gallery, London.

2019: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat – Red Hook Labs, New York City 2019: Weeping Rock – The Corner Shop -Sydney
2019: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat – Foam Next Door, Amsterdam 2019: Weeping Rock – Off The Kerb Gallery, Collingwood.

2018: Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat – Off The Kerb Gallery, Collingwood. 2018: Salted Earth – Good Moon Rising Arts Festival, North Coburg
2017: BL_NK SP_CE -Voies Off Festival in Arles, France.
2017: Saudade, Neon Parlour, Melbourne

2017: BL_NK SP_CE – FOCUS Photography Festival, Mumbai, India 2017: BL_NK SP_CE – Tiradentes Photo Festival -Tiradentes, Brazil 2017: BL_NK SP_CE – Month Of Photography – Denver, USA.
2017: BL_NK SP_CE – FORMAT – Derby – UK

2017: BL_NK SP_CE, Home – Los Angeles Festival of Photography, USA.
2016: BL_NK SP_CE – Gertrude St, Contemporary, Fitzroy
2016: BL_NK SP_CE – 40 x 40 Exhibition – Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2016: BL_NK SP_CE , International Women’s Day, Queen Victoria Building, Melbourne

Curation:
2021: Shadowland – multi-sensory exhibition at Jack’s Magazine, Footscray

2018 – 2020: Good Moon Rising Festival

Publications:
2023: Fisheye Magazine, France – Artist Feature
2021: The New Yorker – Commission for three fiction pieces
2021: Photocollective AU – artist feature
2021:VOSTOK -South Korea – artist feature
2020: Viens Voir – Photobook review and artist feature online.
2020: Unless You Will Magazine – artist feature and interview
2020: Ikki Books, Germany, Photobook and Vinyl
2019: Yoghurt Magazine – Feature
2019: The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization – Reference Image – Author Claudia Rankin
2019: NewFlesh: Queerness Beyond The Body -Featured Artist -Photobook
2019: Foam Fotografia Magazine ‘Talent’ Edition – Print

2018: Artist Profile -Lomography Interview -Online

2017: The best of LensCulture Book – Vol.1 – Printed 2017: Impressa Magazine, Artist Profile

2017: 30 Women To Watch – Lens Culture
2017: Emerging Talent Of The Year – Lens Culture