About
Sophie Cox is a visual artist and writer, who combines text and textiles to speak to themes of political and personal significance. Through the tactile and meditative process of hand-sewing, they aim create work that provokes change in themself as they work and the viewer as they explore the artwork. Through text and textile, Cox examines the relationship between everyday life and societal issues. Their work often includes appliqued banners, embroidered tea towels and other sewn works which employ the aesthetics of activist iconography to create works which speak to the nature of craft, art, and political action.
Cox is a Sydney-based artist, who has exhibited in galleries both locally and abroad, from the Christensen Heller Gallery in Oakland, California to the ARTBAR in Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. A complete list of her exhibiting history can be found below
Education:
Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University 2015-17
Honours year in Visual Arts, First Class Honours, completed 2018
Exhibitions:
‘Patchwork Museum’ (2014): a photography-based show at Christensen Heller Gallery in Oakland, California
‘The Beetles’(2017): a participatory workshop at the Museum of Modern Art, Sydney as part of the ARTBAR series
‘Classification to Chaos’ (2017): an installation as part of graduate show for Bachelor’s degree, involving two hundred and fifty glow-in-the-dark beetles
‘Into the Blue: a jellyfish elegy’(2018): a photography and video-based show at Dedspace Gallery in Sydney
‘Worthy Sayings for good children’: an embroidery work exhibited for the Electrofringe Festival 2018 with the theme of privacy and surveillance
‘Overheard in the City’(2018): a series of embroideries of overheard phrases exhibited as honours graduate show at Sydney College of the Arts
‘Domestic Grids’ (2019): exhibition at The Shop Gallery, Sydney of found postcards cut into domestic shapes and placed in classified grids reminiscent of the museum
‘‘The Walls Have Ears’ (2019) :as part of the Women’s Work exhibition at Gaffa Gallery
‘Vilma K Blau’ (2019) : a photo-based work as part of the Container Exhibition at Alpha House Gallery
‘Sounds of the City’ (2020) : a video installation at Darling Square Library as part of the City of Sydney artwork in libraries initiative
‘Will’ (2021) : a multi-disciplinary solo show employing photography, textiles and collage at ARO Gallery
‘Forgotten Women’ (2023): a textile and collage-based solo show at Airspace Projects, Marrickville Sydney
‘Protest and Survive’ (2023): a textile-based solo show focusing on protest art at Rubicon ARI, Naarm (Melbourne)
‘Finding a Place’ (2023): a textile piece as part of the Creative Conversations Exhibition at Annandale Creative Arts Centre for the Sydney Fringe Festival
‘Food and Feelings’ (2023): a series of sculptural, collage-based and textile works as the Featured Artist for Annandale Creative Arts Centre Make Art Night November
Curating:
Assisted in the curation of the graduate show at the end of Bachelor’s degree