Sophie Meyer (b. 1972, London) is an artist who, following a career in film production, has begun creating a body of works inspired by a preoccupation with sensations of relational and psychological (un)safety.  

Working across sculpture, collage, photography and textiles, she utilises tensions between form, image and materials to explore slippery notions of family and home; the ambivalent complexities of the maternal and the emotional labour of maintaining ‘support structures’ within and around the domestic.  

Addressing assumptions around who feels empowered to take up space, and the dynamics of who holds the feelings, she also considers the slippages of meaning and the cognitive dissonance that can occur when non-verbal signals are discordant with the ostensible relationship.
 
Many works utilise the form of the funnel with its implications of flow, compression and ‘through-ness’ and of uneasy traces, residues and blockages might cause dysfunction and obstruction.    In collage and photographic work, her self-image is deployed to investigate what makes us feel contained or constrained, exposed or concealed, pondering the disquieting comforts and discomforts of those states of being. 

Reaching to evoke an embodied cognition of unease, the bodily sensations that may come with anxiety, anger, shame and disassociation - and of wider societal disquiet and dislocation - the works allude to that which might be unsayable and disallowed.