Sophie Huckfield (she/they) is a working class artist, designer and writer, based between
Walsall and London, UK.
Their practice is collaborative, political and site-specific. Underpinned by the concept of polyphony and intersectional feminist practice, their work is concerned with platforming and reframing overlooked voices, histories, stories and experiences, which connect to themes around labour, technology, craft, social-class, and (de)industrialisation. When developing work she draws on archival and research materials to co-produce multidisciplinary artworks which move between video, repurposed tools and sculpture, installations and writings.
Previously they have exhibited, performed and screened at The Barbican, The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, Two Queens, Vivid Projects, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Eastside Projects amongst others. Alongside been commissioned for British Art Show 9 Partner Schools program with Arts Connect and Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery.
They published their debut book OUTWORK with Multistory and Historic England funded through The Everyday Heritage Grant: Celebrating Working Class Histories in 2023.
Currently, they are Stanley Picker Fellow at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, Developing a longterm project on the history of The Lucas Plan.
Alongside ongoing project Lady Ludd, a feminist and queer reframing of the Luddite Movement, developed as part of the Near Now Fellowship at Broadway in Nottingham.
She co-directs studiõ wê & üs
Their practice is collaborative, political and site-specific. Underpinned by the concept of polyphony and intersectional feminist practice, their work is concerned with platforming and reframing overlooked voices, histories, stories and experiences, which connect to themes around labour, technology, craft, social-class, and (de)industrialisation. When developing work she draws on archival and research materials to co-produce multidisciplinary artworks which move between video, repurposed tools and sculpture, installations and writings.
Previously they have exhibited, performed and screened at The Barbican, The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, Two Queens, Vivid Projects, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Eastside Projects amongst others. Alongside been commissioned for British Art Show 9 Partner Schools program with Arts Connect and Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery.
They published their debut book OUTWORK with Multistory and Historic England funded through The Everyday Heritage Grant: Celebrating Working Class Histories in 2023.
Currently, they are Stanley Picker Fellow at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, Developing a longterm project on the history of The Lucas Plan.
Alongside ongoing project Lady Ludd, a feminist and queer reframing of the Luddite Movement, developed as part of the Near Now Fellowship at Broadway in Nottingham.
She co-directs studiõ wê & üs