About Sophie

Sophie May Taylor is a Gamilaraay artist living and creating on Bundjalung Country, working across visual art, styling, costume design, creative direction and performance art. She is one half of the Performance production company HOTMESS and has travelled around Australia performing original shows. 

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Her visual arts practice is deeply informed by her cultural upbringing, through which she was taught that ancestors live within all elements of the natural world, in the land, trees, rocks, and waterways, with each person being guided and protected by ancestral presences.

 

From an early age, Sophie learned to acknowledge Country, to listen deeply, and to communicate with the guardians she has long felt around her. These experiences emerge in her practice through recurring elongated figures, beings that have appeared to her since childhood as protectors, companions, and sources of comfort.

 

Translated onto canvas and into clay, each Guardian is created with intention and purpose, whether to protect, soften the heart, or invite joy. Through her work, Sophie offers these figures as vessels of connection and care. They serve as reminders to honour both the visible and invisible worlds, and to remain attentive and connected to the ancestral guardians who walk alongside us.