Sophie Pennington

 

 

"My artistic practice over the last couple of years has ultimately focused on space and how certain spaces which we may not notice can be filled. With an ongoing interest in repetition and the motion embedded within the process, I began to obsessively question and challenge the nature of space. By ‘space’, I am referring to; depths, voids or expanses, ranging from a blank sheet of paper to the surrounding empty space we are outlined by. I therefore began to question the significance of insignificance. Particularly through gestural mark-making processes where I repeatedly multiply a sole object; my practice explores the relationship between space and time by questioning the unseen temporalities, possibilities and boundaries. My work over recent months has portrayed this relationship by repeating one specific iconic symbol of time; whether it be an object, mark, or a gesture to both overwhelm and enhance the space I am working within, but also confront the audience in an intense and inquisitive manner."