Sophie Smorczewski is a London-based artist whose practice spans works on paper, oil paintings on canvas and oak, and immersive installation. Attentive to gardens and wider landscapes, she distils transient, intimate encounters with place into images that are inflected by memory and ongoing transformation. Drawing inspiration from ancient tree forms and from artists including Lucy Dodd, she grinds pigments from organic matter, allowing her colours to shift and evolve over time. These mutable surfaces mirror natural cycles of growth, decay and renewal, while her reuse of earlier painted fragments weaves traces of previous works into new compositions. A 2021 graduate of Manchester School of Art and recipient of the Manchester Academy of Fine Art Prize, she is currently undertaking an MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art.
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming: 2026 Skin of a Feeling , group show, Artistellar Project, London
Upcoming: 2026 Solo show, LAMB Gallery
2026 The Blue of Distance, group show, SETAREH Berlin
2025 A sleeping garden still grows, solo show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2025 Cure-All, group showRelish curation, London
2025 Natural Recall, group show, Arden + White Gallery, CT, US
2025 Immaterial, group show, Soho Revue, London
2025 What what we do does, group show, Arch 45, London
2025 Through the Splinters, group show, Silian Gallery, London
2025 Moving Principal, group show, Arusha Gallery, London
2025 I’m rooted, but I flow, group show, The Art Office, London
2024 Works on paper 6, group show, Blue Shop Gallery, London
2024 Charity auction for Palestine, Shapes and Things, London
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2025-26 Studio West artist residency, London
2025 The Cass Art Painting Award for Slade School of Fine Art
2021 The Manchester Academy of Fine Art Award