Sophie Aston

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Sophie Aston (born 23 June 1970) is a British painter, noted for her landscapes.

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Biography

Aston was born in East Molesey, Southwest London. She took her Foundation Diploma in 1990-91 at Wimbledon School of Art before taking her BA Hons in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1991 to 1995. [1] She co-founded a gallery in Glasgow before studying for her MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art during 1997 and 1998. Of her work at the John Moores 23 Exhibition (2004), the critic John Carey said on Newsnight Review, "It was just on the edge of realism. Extraordinarily evocative painting." [2] Regarding her work and that of two other exhibiting painters, she said, "I would have gone to Liverpool for any one of those three." She currently teaches on the BA in Fine Art at Brighton University and at the Mary Ward Centre.

Selected exhibitions

Collections

As well as many private collections, Aston's work is in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN   0-953260-95-X.
  2. BBC Newsnight Review 27 September 2004
  3. "Amber Roome Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  4. "Liverpool museums - 'Unfamiliar skies (Bare ground series)', Sophie Aston". Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  5. "Amber Roome Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2009.