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Sophy Rickett

To The River AT ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL

3.03.12 – 22.04.12

  • Sophy Rickett, To The River, HD video still, 2010. Courtesy Sophy Rickett/Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea.

PLEASE NOTE - THIS EXHIBITION IS BEING HELD AT ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL.

In collaboration with Arnolfini and independent producer Elena Hill, ArtSway has commissioned an ambitious new video/sound installation work by the artist Sophy Rickett. In this project, provisionally entitled To The River, she continues to develop her interest in photography and film’s role as a mediator between people and the ‘natural world’.

The starting point and inspiration for To The River is the Severn Bore – the tidal wave that famously runs along the River Severn during the moon’s equinox. 

Sophy writes: ‘The project will explore issues that have resonance locally, and also globally. I am interested in ideas around politics and the environment, and also in the very demanding and teleological relationship humans have with the natural world. I am also interested in the Bore as a subject in itself, and equally in its ‘agency’ in broader philosophical and cultural terms.’

To The River is produced by Elena Hill in collaboration with Arnolfini and ArtSway. The project received funding from Arts Council England, Arts and Humanities Research Council and WonderBox. Sophy Rickett exhibited To The River at the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia 2011 as part of ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion.

Sophy Rickett Biography
Sophy Rickett was born in 1970 in London, and currently lives and works in London. She graduated in 1999 with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Ffotogallery Cardiff; Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy, British School at Rome. Recent group exhibitions include: Time Warp at Centre Rhenan d’Art Contemporain, Alsace, France; East Wing at the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London; New Photography in Britain at Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy; Les Peintres de la Vie Moderne at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fotografierte Landschaften at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig Germany and Il Potere Delle Donne at Il Museo di Trento, Italy; In 2005 a monograph documenting 10 years of her photographic work was published by Steidl, Göttingen/ Photoworks. Recent film screenings include LOOP Film Festival, Liceu Opera, Barcelona; Birds Eye Film Festival, Tate Britain and Prince Charles Cinema.  The recipient of several awards and fellowships, she was awarded a 2010 Artist Associate-ship at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Most recently she has been awarded the Icona 2009 prize at ArtVerona, Italy.

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