Sophie Macpherson
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Animal Silhouette (I), 2007
Born: 1972, Aylesbury
Based: Glasgow
Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Born in Aylesbury in 1972, Macpherson graduated in 1996 with a BA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. Macpherson served as a committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 1998 to 2000. Recent exhibitions include: ‘The Glass Bead Game’ (Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin); ‘If Not Now’ (Broadway 1602, New York); ‘La Femme du Nulle Part’ (Doggerfisher, Edinburgh); ‘Working Things Out’ (Spike Island, Bristol); ‘Remake/Re-Model’ (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow); a two-person show at Laura Bartlett, London, and ‘Open Field’ (CCA, Glasgow). In 2008 Macpherson was awarded the Scottish Arts Council / Location One New York Residency, which she commenced in February of this year and will complete in June. Macpherson lives and works in Glasgow.
Macpherson makes sculptures, drawings and photographs which are often presented in close proximity, suggesting interrelated fictions. A recurrent humorous subject might be the ersatz confidence of a Bauhaus-schooled Sally Bowles, in whose divinely decadent fabrications satin surfaces of brightly coloured gloss paint are belied by a patent diy roughness. Her large-scale installations frequently resemble stages or catwalks with echoes of Busby Berkeley and the sardonic glitz of Berlin cabaret. The accompanying drawings – like abstracted fashion illustration in coloured pencils – possess both wry elegance and a beguiling lightness of touch making silhouettes of the patterns on art-deco-like costumes refracted through a process of sinister-tinged patterning.
