Sophie Hoyle

Sophie Hoyle

Hoyle’s current work explores a personal response to the built landscape in contemporary city living, which is often experienced as fragmented, distorted and estranged. With an interest in processes of de- and re-construction, abstraction and transformation, and the translation between 2-d and 3-d media, she works with architectural imagery in collage, installation and sculpture. Fragments and components of former works are continuously re-used and re-arranged in relation to one another, building new forms and associations between them.
  Hoyle’s practice addresses a range of aspects of urban living, from individual phenomenological experiences of the urban landscape, to wider socio-political issues of the built environment, exploring these both artistically and academically. Hoyle has been actively involved with a range of organisations that approach the city and debate its issues (TINAG, Art & Architecture, Archway Investigations and Response), and has taught with Diego Ferrari on the Photography, Art and Architecture course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

www.sophiehoyle.com
 

Exhibitions

'Night Loops' If Not Now at Legion TV. Online http://www.legion-tv.com/ 21 March- 20 April 2013

Uncanny Landscapes, CCC, London, 4th-8th March 2013

Urban Transcripts 2012: London, the (n)ever-changing city, ICN Gallery, London 8th-15th December 2012

BITE: Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London, 4th-20th September 2012.

Odds Against Tomorrow, Bearspace Gallery, London. 18 August- 15 September 2012.

HELP/LESS Printed Matter Summer Exhibition, Printed Matter Inc, New York. 14th July-29th September 2012.

Exhibit IV: Tract Projects. Web-based Exhibition. 1st Jan 2012- Ongoing. http://www.tractprojects.co.uk/index.php?/current-project/exhibit-iv/

AND Publishing: Piracy Project at New York Art Book Fair. MoMA PS1, New York 30 September- 2 October 2011.
http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/10/02/highlights-from-the-ny-art-book-fair/

Out of Context WestGermany, 136 Skalitzerstr., Berlin. 28-30th July 2011.

Before Berlin Kunst rePublick, 36 Kopernickerstr, Berlin. 2nd-3rd July, 2011.

Exhibit III: Tract Projects. Web-based Exhibition. 1st July 2011-ongoing http://www.tractprojects.co.uk/index.php?/current-project/exhibit-iii

FoodFace Salon, Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane. 24th – 26th June 2011. http://foodfaceprojects.com/2011/06/21/foodface-salon-24-26-june-2/

Cityscapes Proyecto Ace, Conesa 667 Buenos Aires. 22nd June- 6th July, 2011.

Radio K’bvh;b. Internet Radio. 28th-30th January 2011. http://radiokbvhb.tumblr.com/about

Place Part of Coastal Currents 11th Annual Arts Festival August 2010
 http://www.coastalcurrents.org.uk/2010/

OPEN 14 Cheshire Street, London (Pop-up Gallery)
6th- 13th May 2010 http://www.assembly-projects.com/projects/open.html

subSTRATUM  Islington Arts Factory, London.
13th April-14th May 2010

In Memory of Light Kingsgate Gallery London.
5th-13th March 2010 http://www.inmemoryoflight.co.uk

Atmosphere in the Spectrum The Crypt Gallery London.
11th-13th February 2010

Berlin Laboratory Architectural Association Show, AEDES Network Campus, Berlin. 10th-12th September 2009
 

Residencies: 

PictureBerlin Residency July 2011

Sub30 Residency Proyecto 'Ace June 2011

Bow Arts Trust Graduate Award Residency September 2010- September 2011

AIR (Archway Investigations and Response) 'Mini-Residency' February 2010

Talks and Articles:

Artist Talk as part of Urban Transcripts 2012: London, the (n)ever-changing city, at UCL. 9th December 2012. 

Artists Workshop at Printed Matter 18th September 2012
Permission, piracy and creative intervention: Gordon Matta-Clark, GMC Cut I and II and The Piracy Project
Part of the HELP/LESS Exhibition 2012

'‘More Real than Reality: Film and Video Technology in Representing the “Real”’. Short Talk at 'Fragile Realities: Intersecting Interpretations of the Real' SELCS Postgraduate Conference, UCL. 6 July.

'Visual technologies: Artistic Subversion and the Contemporary Urban'. Short Talk, Panel 1c:Urban Technologies at One Day in the City Conference, UCL. 15 June 2012. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/onedayinthecity/people-blog/people26

Fractured Living II: Architectural Experience and Expanded Photography
Jotta: Published: Critical Dialogue 02.04.2012
http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-critical-dialogue/2179/fractured-living-architectural-experience-and-expanded-photography

Sound by Caleb Kelly. A review for a-n interface 02.2012
http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/2072466

‘Fractured Living: Looking at the work of Neil Ayling and Frauke Dannert'. For a-n Interface. November 2011. http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/1690859

‘Art and Alternative Urbanism: Unofficial Public Space Interventions’ part of
‘Alternative Urbanisms’ Urban Geography Research Group Conference 11th-12th November 2010

‘Art as Activism: Should Art be Separated from Activism?’ Silent City, online literature. November 2010. 
http://www.silentcity.org.uk/index.php?/projects/art-and-activism/

‘Dubai Downtown: Alternative Perspectives’ Short talk, 22nd October
This Is Not A Gateway Festival  22-24th October 2010
http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/2010-participants/

Co-curator, Art & Architecture Lecture Series Spring 2010 'Photography: Mapping the Civic Space'. Speakers: Mark Pimlott, Diego Ferrari, Bridget Smith, chaired by Dr Alison Rooke. The Photographer's Gallery, London. 26th April 2010.

‘The Ethics of Social Realist Film and Photography’ Short talk, 25th October.
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 23-25th October 2009
http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/2009-festival-participants/