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About

Sophy Hollington is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms in to intricate, symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and futuristic visions.

She is the creator of Autonomic Tarot, a collaboration with writer David Keenan, published by Rough Trade books in 2018.

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Process

Linocut is a relief printmaking process in which a sheet of linoleum is carved into using a fine gauge. This is then inked up using a roller and printed. Most of Sophy's work is printed in black ink, scanned and then coloured digitally. Lino corners her into making bold choices, representing things in unusual ways and feeling her way around the limitation of only being able to express herself in black and white, positive or negative.

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Subject matter

As an artist Sophy wishes to exist in a place where our humanity’s shared artistic past is as tangible as a weed, where all of its mysterious, surprising, and often overlooked moments form a direct root and stem to where we exist in the present moment. Her work plays with the notion of symbolism whilst experimenting with form and subverting common archetypes.

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Select clients

Hermés

The New York Times

Celine

McSweeny's Quarterly Concern

Nike

The New Yorker

National Geographic

Kikagaku Moyo

Weird Walk

The Economist

A24

Top Cuvée

Light in the Attic Records

Selfridges

Apple

Hermés

Celine

Nike

National Geographic

Weird Walk

A24

Light in the Attic Records

Apple

The New York Times

McSweeny's Quarterly Concern

The New Yorker

Kikagaku Moyo

The Economist

Top Cuvée

Selfridges