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Sophy Naess

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b. 1982

Untitled (Arc, negative) | Publication in collaboration with Marina Ancona

2020 | collagraph | 76.5 x 57 cm

"The circumstances I find myself in are naturally going to influence what ends up in my digestive system. Needs and desires fluctuate. So – the changing conditions of being in the worlds, I’d say. Play is an important way of dealing with that"

Untitled (Arc, positive) | Publication in collaboration with Marina Ancona

2020 | collagraph | 76.5 x 57 cm

Instabile #3 (negative) | Publication in collaboration with Marina Ancona

2020 | collagraph hand painted with acrylic | 38 x 28 cm

Instabile #6 (Negative II) | Publication in collaboration with Marina Ancona

2020 | Collagraph hand painted with acrylic | 38 x 28 cm

Untitled (thread study)

2019 | gouache and acrylic on canvas | 35.5 x 28 cm

Small Net

2019 | collagraph | 38 x 28 cm

This fox has a longing for grapes: She jumps, but the bunch still escapes.

The fox jumps and reaches with considerable strain, but the tempting clusters are too high to gain.

2021 | hand painted and hand woven cotton and wool | dimensions variable

The enviable birds feasting on the grapes aloft must have bad taste, the bitter fox scroffs.

2021 | hand painted and hand woven cotton and wool | dimensions variable

Since he can’t partake of this meal fit for gods, the fox scorns the grape-eaters and calls them clods.

2021 | hand painted and hand woven cotton and wool | dimensions variable

Grieved in his heart he forces a careless smile and declares ‘these grapes are sour and hardly worth my while’.

2021 | hand painted and hand woven cotton and wool | dimensions variable

Clusters of Promises (ruptured matrix)

2021 | collagraph | 38 x 28 cm

Chicory

2021 | oil on canvas | 28 x 35.5 cm

Running Figure

2021 | collagraph on canvas, acrylic ink | 190 x 170 cm

Nasturtium

2021 | oil on canvas | 35.5 x 28 cm

Butterfly net

2021 | collagraph on canvas, acrylic ink | 190 x 130 cm

Clusters of Promises (A)

2021 | collagraph on cotton rag paper, handcoloring with acrylic paint

Clusters of Promises (B)

2021 | collagraph on cotton rag paper

Clusters of Promises (C)

2021 | collagraph on japanese paper, hand coloring with acrylic ink

Clusters of Promises (D)

2021 | collagraph on Japanese paper, handcoloring with acrylic ink

Clusters of Promises (E)

2021 | collagraph on cotton rag paper, handcoloring with acrylic ink

Clusters of Promises (F)

2021 | collagraph on japanese paper

Clusters of Promises (G)

2021 | collagraph on japanese paper

Clusters of Promises (H)

2021 | collagraph on cotton rag paper, handcoloring with acrylic ink