SOPHIE SMORCZEWSKI
Based in London
Sophie Smorczewski is a painter living and working in London. She completed a BA at Manchester School of Art in 2021, receiving the Manchester Academy of Fine Art Prize, and an MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she was awarded the Cass Art Painting Award.
Her paintings grow from close observation of gardens and landscapes, holding brief, intimate moments shaped by memory and change. Gardens arrive in full bloom yet carry a quiet sense that the moment is already slipping away. Working in oil on canvas and on paper, she makes pigments from organic materials that continue to alter over time, so each painting keeps changing long after it leaves the studio.
Selected exhibitions
2026, While It Holds, curated with Susan Davis, Wilder Gallery, London
2024, Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, London
2024, Imagine, Gallery Eight, London
2024, Auction for Palestine, shapes and things, London
2023, Slade Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2023, Paradigm, AMP Studios, London
Awards and Education
Cass Art Painting Award, Slade School of Fine Art
2021, Manchester Academy of Fine Art Prize
Education
2026, MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2021, BA, Manchester School of Art
SELECT AVAILABLE WORK
Sophie Smorczewski
Pinch Me
2026
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Sophie Smorczewski
The Goldfinch
2025
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Sophie Smorczewski
A Pattering
2026
Oil on board
20 x 25 x 3 cm