ABOUT SOPHIE DARTFORD

Sophie Dartford is a multidisciplinary artist working between Staffordshire and London across painting, film, sculpture and text. Her practice uses the body as both subject and medium, considering how memory, presence and experience are carried, translated and transformed through physical form.

Landing somewhere between figuration and abstraction, Dartford creates sensory, materially led works that investigate trace, repetition and the instability of memory. Personal histories, social experience and embodied knowledge surface throughout the work, often indirectly through gesture, sound, material and process.

Drawing on acts of documentation, translation and reinterpretation, her practice embraces ambiguity and partial narratives. Rather than presenting fixed accounts, her works create spaces where memory can be encountered as fragmented, bodily and continually re-formed.

Alongside her artistic practice, Dartford is an Art & Design teacher and has worked extensively within community arts settings, using visual art and creative writing as tools for expression, reflection and connection.