​Inspired by a personal preoccupation with relational (un)safety and embodied knowing, Sophie Meyer (b 1972) utilises a range of mediums to consider slippery notions of the family and home, ambivalent complexities around the maternal and emotional labour within the domestic.  
 
Via exploring tensions of materials, scale and space - and the containing function of architectural elements - her work seeks to evoke dynamics, and cognitive dissonance, around who feels empowered to take up space and who is left holding the feelings. 
 
Working across sculpture, collage, photography and textiles, she enjoys playing with the materiality of substances that may flex, flop or fail and/or deploying her self image in imagery that considers what makes us feel contained or constrained, exposed or concealed – and the discomforts (or disconcerting comforts) of those states of being.     
 
Most recently she’s been haunted by the forms of banister spindles and handrails, which ostensibly speak of safety and of boundaries of space, but also of the passage of time and bodies, traces of touch and histories, and personal memories of unobserved childhood listening.  For Sophie, bannisters evoke what is handed down - ghostly presences of matrilineal inheritances and societal expectations.  
 
Following a 25 year career in feature film production, Sophie Meyer is currently an MFA candidate at Goldsmiths, having initially pursued her compulsion to make via adult education classes.  Her exploratory practice is rooted in research, embodied experience, material experiment and the destabilization of identity that came with becoming a mother via adopting from the UK care system.  She has exhibited works in 25 group exhibitions via artist collectives or open calls, and is focused on building and sustaining an emerging practice.