Newcastle University

Macpherson graduated in 1996 with a BA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. She served as a committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 1998 to 2000. Exhibitions include: ‘The Glass Bead Game’ (Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin); ‘La Femme du Nulle Part’ (Doggerfisher, Edinburgh); ‘Working Things Out’ (Spike Island, Bristol); a two-person show at Laura Bartlett, London, and ‘Open Field’ (CCA, Glasgow). Macpherson was awarded the Scottish Arts Council / Location One New York Residency, which she completed in June 2009. She audited classes at the California Institute of Arts for a semester at the end of 2009. A solo exhibition in January this year at Sorcha Dallas Gallery was followed in May by a performance called ‘Shoplifters, Shopgirls’, in collaboration with Clare Stephenson and commissioned by Tramway, Glasgow. She lives and works in Glasgow.

‘Employing sculpture, photography, performance and drawing, Sophie Macpherson builds scenarios that are invested both in an abstracted personal mythology and an exploration of the non-verbal or mute qualities of symbols. Theatrical objects and highly stylised costumes are recurring motifs in Macpherson’s practice, and are deploy the mise-en-scene of medieval mystery plays, the perfomativity of Brechtian cabaret, and the psychic landscape of Surrealism.’ Isla Lever-Yap