Sophie Gabrielle
- Birth Year1992
- NationalityAustralian
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Biography
Sophie Gabrielle is an Australian contemporary photographer currently residing on the lands of the Ngunnawal people. Interested in the intersection of photography, memory and myth-making, their work uses found archives and organic material to create space in which the past and present co-exist.
Their work has been exhibite
d in Australia, Malaysia, The Netherlands, France, Germany, South Korea, the USA and the UK. Notable commissions and collaborations of Sophie’s work are The New Yorker -Fiction Issue, July 2021, cover art for The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra’s Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid, 2020) and UK musician Seabuckthron’s album Through a Vulnerable Occur was produced as a companion piece to the Ikki Selects photobook by the same name containing a curated selection of Sophie’s work. They are a Foam Talent recipient (2018) and a finalist for the Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards (2016).
They are a founding member of Good Moon Rising, a non-profit creative collective that creates safe spaces for gender-diverse artists and musicians to be celebrated in Naarm (Melbourne). They have obtained a Masters in Arts Management from RMIT (Dean’s list recipient), focussing on curation and community engagement within galleries and a Bachelor of Photography majoring in Fine Art.
