Artist Statement

Awards
‘95 $1,000 from the New York Times
1997 British Council award for $900
1992 Westminster Photography Bursary.
1994 South Bank £750 award winner.

Publications
”Time Out”,"New York Times"
"What she wants","The Guardian"; "A'b'sea"; "Extra Camera","Woman's Art"; "What's On";"The British Journal of Photography";"Elle", "Design Week","Images"."Lingua Franca",
"Minority Rights group International"

Work represented by:
Special Photographers Company, London.
The Hutchinson Picture Library, London.
Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington D.C.
Millennium images, London.

Education
1999-2002 MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins School of Art. London.
1995: Graduate Film school at American University.Washington D.C.
1986/9: Derby University - 2:1 BA honours degree in Photography.
1983/4: Foundation Course, Chelsea Art School.

Photography workshops 1987/95
Mary Ellen Mark, Lewis Baltz, Lee Friedlander, Jan Groover, Mari Mahr, Martin Parr, Jo Spence, Jerry Uelsmann, Olivia Parker, Rhonda Wilson, Graham Budget, Mitra Tabrizian, Susan Kleckner, Allen Frame, Eddie Adams. Eddie Ephraums,

Stills Photographer
“Jump tomorrow”,“Til Christmas", "Before The Rain","Coping with Cupid","Floating" , "A Dolphin's Touch" ,"The Score”,"Snow" ,"The Clearing",
"The Debutante". “Superstition"

Work
1989-90 Assistant to Illustrators Agent.
1991-93 Assistant to Katherine Turner- Director of the Special Photographers Co.
1994-95 Teachers Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Photography, NYC.
1996-98 Photography workshop teacher. Venezuela
1997 Art teacher at the British School, Caracas.
2000-04 Photography workshops London
2003 BACES photography courses for Brent.
2004 Lecturer at Surry University
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0208 968 0005 or 07957 462901

Solo Exhibitions
2003: Drive by Gallery. London.
1994: Centre de la Photographie, Geneva; Recent work.
1993: D.M.B.B. Advertising Agency, London.
1992: Metro Cinema, London; "Lightsome".
Heinz Julien Gallery, Zermatt, Switzerland; "Angles and Trees".
1990: Islington Arts Factory, London: "Travel Work"

Group Exhibitions
2004 Koestler Exhibition, Wormwoodscrubs.
The Arundell Trust, I am the way
2003 Tha Manor, London.
2002 Ford show @ Oxford house.
Peach performance at Waterstones, Picadilly.
2001 British Representative at EU show at PDVESA Centre,Caracas.
Poetry Cafe ‘The worm has turned”
2000 ‘The Torrid Zone’. Venezuelan cultural centre, ‘Buildings’- Coins space, London.
The Poetry Cafe- AV installation. ‘Net’
1999 ‘Flowers’, Zelda Cheatle summer show.
1998: Biblioteca National, Caracas. ‘6 Women’.
1997: Fundacion CELARG, Caracas. ‘Hilogia’
1996: Zelda Cheatle Gallery: “We don't talk about it.”
1995: Washington Project for the Arts:’ Hostile Witness’.
1993: Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales: ‘Open Show’, and Hamiltons Gallery; "Compassion" .
"What She Wants: Females Photographing Males"
1992: Wallsall Museum and Arts Gallery, England;
Special Photographers Co, London; "Two Women”
Westminster Photography Show, Pimlico Arts Centre;"Kitchen work".
Free Trade Wharf, Whitechapel, London; "Naked".
South Bank Open Exhibition.
1991: Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London; "Treading a Fine Line".
1990: Special Photographers Company, London; "An Angel in the Basement".
1989: Pendle Photographic Gallery, England; "A Degree of Communication".
Films
Magic (4 mins).
Tricks.(5 mins)
Ruby (6 mins).

Sophie Molins

MA fine Art Central St Martins