Sophie Aicken

My primary studio practice this year has revolved around storytelling, considering a range of audiences when doing so and working predominantly through analogue means. My main body of work - the animation is the result of collaboration with the Poet Michael Pederson. I was inspired by the works of Lizzy Hobbs and Anwyn Beier throughout my development process. I found a specific interest in communicating the sleepy feeling the poem depicts, drawing from Pederson’s expressive descriptions of nature within my own imagery and through the use of charcoal, which I later inverted and overlayed onto cyanotype backgrounds.
Folio

Animation - Let The Lilac In, Charcoal, Cyanotype, 2023
Luna Finds Her Luster (Spread), Gouache, Crayon, Graphite, 2024
The Global Gender Divide we Really Should be Talking about - From A Collection of Editorial Illustrations, Gouache, Digital, 2024
The Glasgow School of  Art