Sophie Smallhorn

Sophie Smallhorn was born in Hertfordshire in 1971. She trained at the University of Brighton (1991-94), graduating with a BA in Furniture - wood, metal, plastics and ceramics. Her lack of a fine-art training has not hindered her career as a sculptor. She had in fact started to make wall-mounted compositions in coloured off-cuts gleaned from making furniture. These took over her practice and her chosen modus operandi, that of the visual artist. In her work Smallhorn explores colour, volume and proportion. The forms of her wall works are small, simple, clean and geometric. Geometry and ...