Sophie Clements is a London based video and installation artist. Her work ranges from solo gallery works to large-scale installations, set design and projection works in collaboration with experimental composers and musicians. Often characterised by an attempt to capture an ephemeral and elusive moment, Sophie produces temporal sculptures that explore and question the futility in our attempts to control change and delay the inevitable.
Embarking on adventures of lengthy and laborious processes, that to some may even appear absurd, Clements courts chance and failure, looking to extract and distill the inherent beauty in a material when observed in an unusual state of being. Working predominantly with elemental materials, activated by and in dialogue with natural forces – light, gravity, wind, rain, the work speaks to a fascination with a sense of the sublime and the transcendent, a fascination formed from a childhood spent in the wild landscape of the west coast of Scotland.
Sophie’s work is shown in galleries and concert venues internationally, including The Barbican, Seoul Museum of Art, The RWA Bristol, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo and The Royal Opera House. She is a visiting tutor at The Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London and The Guildhall School of Music, and is the co-director of the MAP/making project (music, arts and performance), a long standing educational platform for interdisciplinary collaboration. She won the Jerwood Moving Image award in 2008.
