Sophie is a curator and gallery director based in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay, where she is Director of Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery. She has worked in the contemporary art field in Aotearoa New Zealand for more than a decade.
Her values and interests have been shaped by a background in artist-led spaces, and leading small institutions through and alongside curatorial programmes. She is particularly drawn to art practices that explore models of collective and environmental care—and which harness queer and feminist positions to imagine differently. A background in graphic design informs her ongoing interest in publishing as a creative practice, and a way of thinking with artists and their communities.
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