Sophie Dumaresq, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
Meet the Artist
Sophie Dumaresq, is an interdisciplinary artist who brings perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative and critical robotics. Working across photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, her work explores what it is to try and share joy, love, laughter and communicate in a universe filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are built inherently differently to that of your own. Her artistic practice seeks to bring voices of difference to the emerging cultures of robotics and computation.
Her work explores the politics of care and mischief making through symbiotic cycles of consumption, destruction, and creation, which demonstrate how as a species we relate, show empathy, learn, and evolve with and within our surrounding environment.
Sophie graduated from ANU honours first in her year in 2023, winning the Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary award for the most outstanding body graduating body of work from the Australian Nation University’s School of Art and Design. She was also awarded a Peter and Lena Karmel Visual Arts Honours Scholarship during her honours candidacy, as well as three 2023 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards. In 2023 she also undertook a Digital Leadership Fellowship through the Australia Council for the Arts and Creative New Zealand. During this fellowship she began a mentorship with the world renowned performance artist Stelarc. 2023 is also the year in which she was selected and participated in the Queer Development Program through Performance Space. Her work is in the Macquarie Group Collection as well as several distinguished private collections.
