ABOUT THE ARTIST...
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Sophie Hacker specialises in Church Art. She is an Artist Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, and a member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. She is a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, a member of the CFCE (Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England) and on the Winchester DAC.
Since 2006 she has been involved in the production and curation of artworks for Winchester Cathedral. In March and April 2026, Sophie held her first Retrospective Exhibition, at Winchester Cathedral. Recent commissions include stained glass windows, chapel crosses, vestments and altar frontals, and ecclesiastical silver as well as a range of private commissions in sculpture and glass. In February 2024, she installed a permanent commission for St Marylebone Parish Church, London. The project was featured on a recent episode of BBC1's Songs of Praise celebrating the 200th birthday of the National Gallery. In 2020, she created a Chapel Cross for Dame Sarah Mullally, now Archbishop of Canterbury. The cross has travelled with her to Lambeth Palace. Projects recently completed include four windows for St Antony's Priory Chapel, Durham (shortlisted for the A+C Awards 2026), an opaque enamelled screen and door for a 14th century church in Dorset, a suite of four textile designs for a church in Chicago, a reliquary for the bones of a seventh century royal saint in Kent, a bronze owl for a private client in Cambridge, and a 'final show' following a year's Artist- in-Residence role at the Gilbert White Museum, Hampshire. Current projects include a traditional stained glass window for a church in Essex, the prestigious 'Renter Panel' for the Master of The Worshipful Company of Glaziers 2025-26, and a large Orrery for a private estate in central France made in bronze, corten and sandstone. |
Small affordable Studio works and publications such as 'The Calling Window' can be found in the shop.
Residencies
Sophie has been artist in residence at St Mary's in the Lace Market, Nottingham, Sarum College in Salisbury and the Gilbert White House and Gardens.
Artist in Residence
On the first day of Spring, 2022, Sophie took up a one year Arts Residency at the Gilbert White House and Gardens, in Selborne, Hampshire. #JuBEElee was a creative workshop for schoolchildren. Other projects helped raise awareness of the importance of conservation, working alongside craftspeople, and offering creative workshops, along with regular journalling and sketching. Sophie created lasting legacies including two benches using fallen cedar boughs from a vast Cedar of Lebanon (one bench inspired by children's drawings, the other by adults attending a creative workshop which helped tell the story of Gilbert White). She made inks using oak galls, acorn cups and copper, created eco-prints with autumn leaves, desiged unique Nature Journals, cyanotype artworks, small 'found objects', treen objects from fallen timber, and collaged images. All of these were exhibited at the Final Show in 2025.
On the first day of Spring, 2022, Sophie took up a one year Arts Residency at the Gilbert White House and Gardens, in Selborne, Hampshire. #JuBEElee was a creative workshop for schoolchildren. Other projects helped raise awareness of the importance of conservation, working alongside craftspeople, and offering creative workshops, along with regular journalling and sketching. Sophie created lasting legacies including two benches using fallen cedar boughs from a vast Cedar of Lebanon (one bench inspired by children's drawings, the other by adults attending a creative workshop which helped tell the story of Gilbert White). She made inks using oak galls, acorn cups and copper, created eco-prints with autumn leaves, desiged unique Nature Journals, cyanotype artworks, small 'found objects', treen objects from fallen timber, and collaged images. All of these were exhibited at the Final Show in 2025.