Sophie Aston Explained

Sophie Aston (born 23 June 1970) is a British painter, noted for her landscapes.

Biography

Aston was born in East Molesey, Southwest London. She took her Foundation Diploma in 1990-91 at Wimbledon School of Art before taking her BA Hons in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1991 to 1995.^[1] She co-founded a gallery in Glasgow before studying for her MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art during 1997 and 1998. Of her work at the John Moores 23 Exhibition (2004), the critic John Carey said on Newsnight Review, "It was just on the edge of realism. Extraordinarily evocative painting."^[2] Regarding her work and that of two other exhibiting painters, she said, "I would have gone to Liverpool for any one of those three." She currently teaches on the BA in Fine Art at Brighton University and at the Mary Ward Centre.

Selected exhibitions

• March 2007 “Beneath Unfamiliar Skies” Amber Roome Gallery, Edinburgh^[3]
• September 2005 “New Paintings” Studio F2 The Nunnery, London
• June 2005 The Crown and Manor Club, London, with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Cedric Christie, Peter Newman
• September 2004 John Moores 23 Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Liverpool^[4]
• January 1995 The Hunting Art Prizes Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London^[1]

Collections

As well as many private collections, Aston's work is in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts^[5]

References

1. Book: David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L . 0-953260-95-X.
2. News: 27 September 2004 . The Liverpool Biennial . en-GB . BBC News . 25 October 2022.
3. Web site: 2007 . Sophie Aston – Beneath Unfamiliar Skies . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080905180442/http://www.amberroome.co.uk/past/sophie_aston1.html . 5 September 2008 . 22 May 2009 . Amber Roome Contemporary Art.
4. Web site: 2004 . 'Unfamiliar skies (Bare ground series)', Sophie Aston . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090507090314/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/23/exhibitors/sophie_aston.aspx . 7 May 2009 . 22 May 2009 . Walker Art Gallery . Liverpool museums.
5. Web site: Sophie Aston . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080314225920/http://amberroome.co.uk/artists/sophie_aston.html . 14 March 2008 . 22 May 2009 . Amber Roome Contemporary Art.