Hazel Soper creates immersion installation work, taking place in a world post apocalypse, as an eco-feminist society forages through the wreckage of past religion, folklore and capitalism. Her approach is expanded collage, assembling and overlapping a variety of materials and ideas to create layered complex narratives, spanning the fictional and non fictional, abject and romantic, public and private. She uses video, audio, metalwork, woodwork, diy technologies, printmaking and sculpture to create environments of care.
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Education:
Distinction, MFA, Fine Art, Newcastle University, 2023
2:1 BA hons Degree, Fine Art, Newcastle University, including semester at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München,
2017
Solo Exhibitions:
October/2023- Ode to Peg Powler, Dead Dog Gallery, Durham
February/2023- I Lived Here Once and then You Killed Me, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich
September/2022- For Joan Wytte, Under the Arches, Newcastle
September/2020- Altar for the Commons, The Fish Factory, Penryn
July/2019- It's Not My Fault She's Worried, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle
Selected Group Exhibitions:
June/2024- HAGG, Slop @ The Wild Museum, Prudhoe
March/2024- Confluence, Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub at the NAC, Newcastle
December/2023- Imprinted Concrete, Moving Gallery, Sunderland
April/2023- Surface Matters, Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Canada
November/2022- Annual Open Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, London
August/2022- Mycelium, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
May/2022- How We Live Now, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle
February/2022- From the Ground Up, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Highbridge Works, Newcastle
June/2021- Let Us Eat Cake, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
April/2021- Baltic Open Submission, The Baltic, Newcastle Gateshead
March/2019- Self As Actor: Colonising Identity, NeMe, Cyprus
December/2018- Monitor, AIR Gallery, Altrincham
August/2018- Nostalgia, Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens
May/2018- Fringe Arts Bath, Living In Hyperreality, Bath
December/2017- Blowing a Gail, the Old Town House, Warrington
October/2017- Where Do We Go From Here? XL Gallery, Newcastle
September/2017- Nasty Women, the Black and White Building, Shoreditch London
March/2017- url 2 irl 2 url, Is This It? www.isthisitisthisit.com
March/2016- Venn Launch, Bamburgh house, Newcastle
October/2015- Tour Art Competition, Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne
May/2015-Phantasma, World Headquarters, Newcastle
January/2015-Square One, North Wing, Newcastle
November/2014-Yellow Wallpaper, the Star and Shadow, Newcastle
Commissions/Residencies/Awards:
June/2023-Residency at the Wild Museum, Northumberland
May/2023- Recipient of the Bartlett Travel Scholarship
November/2022-April 2023- Artist in Residence Programme at Durham Sixth Form Centre
September/2022- Recipient of the John Christie Prize
May/2022- Residency at The Maltings/Durty Beanz, Berwick upon Tweed
April/2022- Recipient of the Bartlett Travel Scholarship
December/2021- Recipient of the Bartlett Sustainable Materials Fund
September/2021- Recipient of the Forshaw Award for MFA
September/2020- Residency at The Fish Factory, Penryn
January/2020- 'Magic and Science at Work', Queens Hall Arts Digital Commission