Sophie L Ferrier
Affiliation: Independent Artist
Facilitating meaningful engagement between ecological research and audiences through a material-centric craft approach, cultivating a land-based, ecologically restorative, and storytelling practice. Grounded in artistic inquiry, material exploration, and local contexts, her work emphasizes the significance of our personal connections to landscapes, while advocating for our role within intricate ecological systems.
Drawing from her expertise in Design, Craft, Permaculture, and circular systems, Sophie has developed an interdisciplinary practice centered on biodegradable, restorative, and regenerative materiality. From repurposing food waste to nurturing living soil, and from managing non-native invasive species to sculptural expression, her work spans a spectrum of creative and ecological endeavors.
Crafted from non-native invasive plant species, brown algae, and tree resin, these urns are entirely biodegradable and compostable, embodying the principle that "what comes from the Earth must return to it." This work represents the cyclical rituals of nature through environmental and cultural restoration, an homage to the ecologies, acknowledging that in nature, there is no true death, only the continuous recycling of nutrients.
Inspired by Neolithic urns, and personal grief their form references artifacts that hold secrets of the past. However, in the Anthropocene, they challenge the notion of permanence, suggesting that humanity should strive to leave no trace.