SOPHIA
PAULEY

CV

Education

2021-2023: MA Painting: Royal College of Art

2014-2018: First Class BA (HONS) ART: Edinburgh College of Art 

2013-2014: Cardiff Arts Academy Foundation


Awards/Residencies

2023: Longlisted for the Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of The Year Award

2022: 196th RSA Annual Exhibition 2022 WASPS Award

2020: PADA Studios Artist-in-Residence

2018: Winner of the ACS Studio Residency Award 

2018: Winner of the Pittenweem Bursary Award

2018: Shortlisted for the Astaire Prize


Collections

NHS Lothian Collection, Scotland

Imago Mundi Collection, Milan


Public Commissions

2019: Granite House wall mural, Stockwell Street, Glasgow


Exhibitions

2024

Eco-Fobia Poetica, Galleria Gaburro, Milan, 9 Apr - 25 May

Morrison Foerster Art Prize exhibition, Scalpel Building, London, Jan - Jun 

Tactically Necessary, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, 10 Jan - 1st Feb

2023

RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London, 13 - 16 July

ThirdFloor Group Show, RCA, London, May

2022:

FLOW MATTERS The Briggait, Glasgow, 5 - 27 November (RSA WASPS Award 2022)

Now Introducing, Studio West Gallery, November

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 23 April - 12 June

Robinson College Exhibition, Cambridge, 22 - 26 June

RAW, Soho Revue, London, 1 - 5 March

2021:

Abstract Alba, Raffiki Gallery, Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh, 10 - 13 September 

Re-Connect, SSA Online show, 21 May - 20 June

AIT Art Auction for refuge, London, 6 - 7 February

FLOW, Winter Exhibition with Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh, 1 Dec - 31 January

'No Borders' Initiative, raising funds in aid of the Maggie’s Centre, ArtThou Viewing Rooms

2020:

SALAD DAYS, PADA Residency, Barreiro, Portugal, 24 September

On The Table, Marramarts, 22 May – 30 September

GradCurate Spring Exhibition, Bloc Gallery, Edinburgh, 13 - 19 March

Utopia - What’s Yours, SSA exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre & Kirkcudbright Galleries, 20 December - 1 March

SSA/VAS OPEN, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22 December - 30 January

2019:

Little Originals,Group exhibition, Dock Street Studios, Dundee, 7 - 28 December

Encounter, Collaboration with Nancy Nightingale, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, 6 - 24 September

Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem, Scotland 3 - 11 August

2018:

The Art Of The Party, Art Basel Miami, 1 Hotel South Beach, Miami, December 

Best of Scottish Art School Graduates 2018 show, Art Pistol, Glasgow, 23 June

Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem, Scotland, August

ECA Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, June

The Salon, members show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, May


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