Sophie Wiltshire
MA work
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Frederick Wilhelm Lund, Sophie Wiltshire
White earthenwareFrederick Wilhelm Lund, Sophie Wiltshire
White earthenware
I have been exploring the Natural History Museum as a visual and narrative source. My figurines depict some of the natural historians who helped create the specimen collection in the Darwin Centre. I have captured and preserved them in a moment of discovery.
The giant squid is housed in the same area of the museum, and my wall pieces explore different aspects of the squid: its elusive underwater life, its immobile scientific preservation in death and the potency it loses between our imagining of a mythical monster and its physical reality.
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Ceramics & Glass, 2012
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Contact
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+44 (0)7936 331 623
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I have been exploring the Natural History Museum as a visual and narrative source. My figurines depict some of the natural historians who helped create the specimen collection in the Darwin Centre. I have captured and preserved them in a moment of discovery.
The giant squid is housed in the same area of the museum, and my wall pieces explore different aspects of the squid: its elusive underwater life, its immobile scientific preservation in death and the potency it loses between our imagining of a mythical monster and its physical reality.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons), Ceramics, Bath Spa University, 2006
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Experience
- Part-time teaching assistant, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycomb, 2012; Teaching assistant, Oak Lodge School, London, 2011; Bindery assistant, The Winchester Bindery, Winchester, 2009–10
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Exhibitions
- FLUX. Making. Changing. Ceramics & Glass., Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall, London, 2011; Hyde 900, Winchester Cathedral, 2010; Fiction, Half Truths, and Downright Lies, Winchester Discovery Centre, 2010; Sophie Wiltshire at The View, The View, Winchester, 2010