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Biography (page 1 of 4)Sophie Hacker is currently Visiting Tutor at both Winchester School of Art and Sarum College, and Arts and Exhibitions Consultant at Winchester Cathedral. She trained as an artist in Oxford and at the Slade School of Art. Her paintings and sculptures are in private collections and public spaces. Images of her work, many of them held by the Bridgeman Art Library (www.bridgeman.co.uk), are used throughout Europe and the US. Between 2002 and 2005, Sophie was Artist in Residence at Sarum College, in Salisbury’s historic Cathedral Close. During that time she began to include a wide range of materials in her work from wood and stone to metal, leather, Perspex, and textiles. Her sculptures use found objects and natural materials to highlight the beauty of the ordinary and to point to the joy and suffering at the heart of creation. To view these, see Sculptures.
Sophie Hacker (right) discusses the score with Sarah Baldock Photo by: Abha Thakor, Diocese of Winchester |
2007 saw the completion of three significant commissions. The
largest was a suite of nine works inspired by composer Olivier Messiaen’s
organ piece ‘La
Nativité du Seigneur’ and developed in collaboration with Sarah Baldock,
organist at Winchester Cathedral. This commission is premiered on the
Feast of the Epiphany 2008, alongside a specially-commissioned film by
KMB Productions showing the development of the work.