I cherish the faded, old and broken and I am naturally drawn to more subtle colours and tones which might have something to do with my Nordic background.
Sophie Klerk is a Danish mixed media collage artist currently living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. She has worked in design and illustration for a variety of international clients and she has lived and worked in Denmark, England, Holland and Mexico. She was co-director of artist run project space The Green Bench in New Zealand. She now works as a full-time artist and exhibits regularly in group and solo shows. Sophie works intuitively and creates her artwork by layering paper, found materials and paint combined with her own photography and found anonymous images. She is intrigued by the relationship between colours, texture and shapes and builds up stories in her compositions. The layered and stitched together collages create contrasts that evoke echoes of the past and present. Her work is held in private collections worldwide, and she undertakes collaborations and commissions on request.
Exhibitions
Kunstsalonen, Copenhagen 2019
Into the Blue, Space Gallery 2019
Recollections, Three Eyes Gallery 2018
Østerbro Salonen, Copenhagen 2018
Touch, Wellington 2018
Frederiksberg Salonen, Copenhagen 2017
Pop up exhibition, Wellington 2017
80 million years, Space Gallery 2017
Unframed, Space Gallery 2017
Two friends, The Annex 2017
I am She, Space Gallery 2016
Wonderfest, Space Gallery 2015
Holding it Together, Space Gallery 2015
Reflections, Gallery on Guyton 2014
Inside Out, Public art 2011
Reading Rooms, Green Bench Project Room 2011
Wild Swan, Rayner Brothers Gallery 2010
Conversations, Green Bench Project Room 2010
Paperwørks, Green Bench Project Room 2009
Souvenir, Green Bench Project Room 2008