Sophie Mackfall

Sophie Mackfall is an artist and practice-based researcher with a focus on painting and painting in the expanded field. Her research explores surfaces and edges, both material and immaterial, with strands of focus that situate painting both in display and practice within natural and urban landscapes. Starting with the idea of horizon as a spatial constant and the body as a physical constant to work with and against, she uses economical devices such as a clothesline or the fold of an envelope to create paintings that often suggest that they are unfixed; that they might be folded or unfolded, cut up or remade. In this way, one painting may enclose another and can at the same time be several different compositions and sets of relations as it unfolds.