sophiegillerstudio@gmail.com
Instagram @gillersophie
b. 1992, Norfolk. Currently lives and works in Norfolk.
Education
2018-2021 Royal College Of Art, MA Sculpture
2011-2014 Camberwell College of Arts, BA (Hons) Painting
2012 Exchange Programme, Purchase College SUNY, New York
2011 Brighton City College Art Foundation
Selected Group Exhibitions
Upcoming
2026 Port to Port, Produced by The Art Station, Hamilton MAS, Felixstowe
Past
October 2025 Port to Port, Produced by The Art Station, in partnership with SPILL Festival, The Hold, Ipswich Suffolk
June 2025 Port to Port, Produced by The Art Station in partnership with First Light Festival, The Battery, Lowestoft, Suffolk
June 2025 Juxtapose Art Fair, Group stand curated by Blackwater Polytechnic, Denmark
May 2025 Sluice Seyðisfjörður, Art Fair, Group stand curated by Blackwater Polytechnic, Iceland
April 2025 Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Group stand curated by Blackwater Polytechnic, Stockholm, Sweden
February 2025 Nostalgic Reverie: The Silence Of Intimacy, Curated by Jodie Bull, Private & Public Gallery, Jersey
January 2025 I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, The Art Station, London Art Fair, Islington, London
September 2024 Hoard, Group Exhibition Curated by Blackwater Polytechnic & Ben Coode-Adams, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
June 2024 Thread Count, Group Exhibition Curated By The Art Station & Freddie Robins, The Art Station, Suffolk
July 2024 Thread Count Pt.2 (extension from The Art Station), The Old Theatre, Framlingham, Suffolk
February 2024 20 Elm Hill, Norwich
March 2024 Revival, The Painted Church, Cambridge, curated & organised by artist Imogen Wetherell
September 2023 Material Memory, Part of British Textile Biennial, Blackburn Crypt
July 2023 Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Raveningham Centre, Castell Farm, Norfolk
June 2023 Fibril Landings, Framework Knitters Museum, Chapel Space Gallery, Northamptonshire (solo)
May 2023 Quilts: A Material Culture, Batsford Gallery, Hackney, London
December 2022 Wires ran like thread lines, Duo show with Faye Rita Robinson, Lot Projects, co-curated, Hackney
July 2022 Contemporary Art Norwich at 20 Elm Hill, Norwich (solo)
February 2022 Sticking Ground, with Hannah Dinsdale & Sophie Goodchild, One Thoresby Street, co-curated, Nottingham
November 2021 London Grads Now 21, Saatchi Gallery, curated by Lauren Bevan & Thomas Hjelm, London
August 2021 Members Show, selected by Catalyst Arts, Outpost, Norwich
August 2021 Soft Boundaries, co-curated, Thatched Barn, Norfolk
June 2021 Royal College of Art MA Sculpture Degree Show, Cromwell Place, London & Available Online RCA 2021
April 2021 TOGETHER IT SEAMS, Standpoint Gallery, London & Available Online
March 2021 cutting at lemons for freckles, Skippings Gallery, Norfolk, co-curated & by Sophie Giller & Chloë Louise Lawrence
March 2021 Rock-a-Stack, duo show with Hannah Dinsdale, co-curated, Skippings Gallery, Norfolk
Dec 2020 Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney, London
Nov 2020 After Hours, Ex-Debenhams in Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth, London, Curated by Cassandra Bowes, Bowes-Parris Gallery & Anna Woodward, The Artists Contemporary
Oct 2020 The Heart Of Light, The Silence: Artists in Norfolk 2020, Online show
March 2019 Dirty Hands & Revelations, Standpoint Gallery, London
February 2019 The Petting Zoo, The Hockney Gallery, Royal College Of Art, London
January 2019 Works In Progress Show, Royal College Of Art, Kensington, London
September 2018 Pleasure Garden, Wickham Road, Brockley, London
May 2018 The Value Of Liveliness, White Crypt, London
October 2017 Pressing Inertia, Enclave Lab Projects, London
July 2017 Sophie Giller – New Work, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (solo)
March 2017 The Good Life, Market Peckham, London
September 2016 Copeland Collective 1, Part Of ART LICKS Weekend, Copeland Park, London
July 2016 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition 2016, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
July 2016 Hotdesk, Part Of Open Art Spaces 2016, 1a Nevern Place, London
May 2016 Soft Rocks: New Works By Lydia Brockless & Sophie Giller, co-curated, Lady Beck, Leeds
January 2016 Chroma, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
November 2015 Umbrella Prints, The Playhouse, Norwich (solo)
November 2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, ICA, London
September 2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, Primary, Nottingham
September 2015 Twelve, Mother Studios, London
August 2015 River Waveney Sculpture Trail 2015, Bungay, Norfolk
April 2015 We Shape London, The Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London
April 2015 Shades Of Yellow, Embassy Tea Rooms, Waterloo, London
Prizes/ Residencies
2023 Longlisted Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award
2023 Curator’s choice award at The Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2023 a-n Artists Bursaries for continued professional practice and creative development
2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Shortlisted
2021 The Gilbert Bayes Award
2021 The ACS Studio Prize Shortlisted
2020 The Sir John Hurt Art Prize Shortlisted
2017 The Annex Collection Acquisition Award Shortlisted
2017 Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary Shortlisted
2016 – 2017 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist Residency Bursary at One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Selected
Press
2025 Jersey Evening Post, Nostaglic Reverie Exhibition Images, 19th February
2024 White Hot Magazine, ‘Thread Count’ review online
2024 Embroidery The Textile Art Magazine Sep/ Oct Issue Thread Count Review by Laura Moseley pg. 58
2024 PTA News (Piano Tuners’ Association) Stitch Perfect article by Joshua Mcloughlin pg.8-15
2024 Embroidery The Textile Art Magazine Jul/Aug Issue, Feature on Thread Count pg.8
2023 Financial Times Sunday, Feature on Quilts: A Material Culture at Batsford Gallery
2022 Review Sticking Ground at One Thoresby Street, New Critique by Joshua Mcloughlin, available online
2021 The Sunday Times, 12th December, 12 future stars of the art world you need to know about by Waldemar Januszczak
2021 Fad Magazine, 10 ARTWORKS YOU NEED TO SEE AT LONDON GRADS NOW. 21 by Mark Westall, online
2021 The Times, 4th November, for London Grads Now. 21 at The Saatchi Gallery pg.4
2021 World Of Interiors, October issue 2021 textile blankets commissioned for Small Bells Ring by Studio Morison pg.58
2021 Reclaim Mag, Issue 64, ‘If not now, then when?’ featured in Upcycling Notes by Cassie Fairy pg.46
2016 The State of The Arts, Review: Soft Rocks at Lady Beck by Naomi Wilby (duo show with Lydia Brockless)
2015 Time Out ‘Naked ambition’ for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 Dec 8-14 issue
2015 Artlyst Photo Feature: Bloomberg New Contemporaries At The ICA London
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