Sophie Smorczewska

Available Works

Biography

Sophie Smorczewski is a London-based artist whose paintings immortalise fleeting moments of fragility in the garden. She captures the bittersweet beauty of memory where the lushness of living a moment is combined with a quiet melancholy at its passing. Following a shift of debilitating illness, her pieces begin as quiet reflections on the kitchen table and hold an intimacy that speaks to a slower time. Smorczewski graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2021 where she was awarded the Manchester Academy of Fine Art Prize. She is currently pursuing a MFA in painting at the Slade.

Education

MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, 2024-2026

BA, Manchester School of Art, 2018-2021

Exhibitions

2024
Public, shapes and things, Online.
Auction for Palestine, shapes and things, London UK.
Works on paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, London UK.
Imagine, Gallery Eight, London UK.

2023
Slade Interim Show, The Slade, London UK.
Paradigm, AMP studios, London UK.
The Silo Collective, The Silo, Hampshire UK.
Art Drop, Cork St. London UK.
Acrylicize, WWP, Manchester UK.
Summer Exhibition, Blue and Berry Gallery, Manchester UK.

2022-20
Degree Show, Manchester School of Art, Manchester UK.
MAFA Prize Winners, Halifax UK.
An Experiential Escape, Peckham Safehouse London UK.
All Eyes on You, Manchester School of Art. Online.
Itsgoing2happen, Peckham Safehouse, London UK.
Ancora Art, Online.
The Silo, Hampshire UK.
Flux, Manchester UK.
X Festival, Manchester UK.

Awards

Manchester Academy of Fine Art Prize, 2021.