SOPHIA KAUR HAMBLETON-GREY

Self Portrait – Triptych
2022
Each canvas 160 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas

Self Portrait – Triptych
2022
Each canvas 160 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas

Self Portrait – Triptych
2022
Each canvas 160 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas

Self Portrait – Triptych
2022
Each canvas 160 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas

Sophia Kaur is interested in how we only know our own subjectivity, so her practice focuses on portraying the multiple versions of herself (such as in her mind, photographs, physically, and online). She has worked in a variety of mediums which she presents together on her website, however her desire for honesty and transparency eventually led to her specialising in large, confronting oil paintings of herself in the nude. Sophia is fascinated in the process of looking at herself being looked at, whether it is on video call, a livestream of her bedroom she did for a month or living as a woman aware of her objectification. Her practice asks the viewer questions on the relevance of oil painting in the contemporary world, whether a “true” self is revealed in the various iterations of herself, and if she has escaped the male gaze and taken the power when painting herself. The ambiguity in her work refuses any clear answers on these questions.

Self Portrait – Late Home, and Self Portrait – Hand Resting on my Arm
2021
Each canvas 186.7 x 105 cm
Oil on canvas

Self Portrait – Sitting Up
2021
186.7 x 105 cm
Oil on canvas