Klayskool is delighted to welcome Sophia Passmore as our inaugural Artist in Residence.

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Sophia is a Brighton-based artist, maker and technical demonstrator with over twenty years of experience in ceramics. She received her studio pottery training in Vancouver, Canada under ceramicist Sarah Coote, before moving to the UK in 2005 where she worked as studio assistant to production potter Arnold Rose. For the past six years she has been developing an independent practice in Brighton, centred on large classical forms and the expressive possibilities of slip decoration.

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Sophia's current work draws on the visual language of traditional weaving - exploring repetition, pattern and motif as a way of reconnecting with ways of making and knowing that have been marginalised or lost. As a person of mixed heritage from Vancouver, her practice is bound up with questions of culture, memory and identity. Her maternal family is Indigenous to the West Coast of Canada, where weaving traditions are slowly being remembered and retaught after generations of enforced assimilation, and Sophia counts herself part of that living movement of recovery.

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During her residency at Klayskool, Sophia will use the time to develop new work, experiment, and engage with the community of artists on site. We look forward to seeing where this dedicated period of making takes her practice.