Sofia Christoforou

I am a multidisciplinary artist from Cyprus.

In 2019, I graduated with a BA in 3D Design and Craft from The University of Brighton and before joining the RCA in 2020, I was working as a bench jeweller and freelance artist in Cyprus.

My work is often framed around the concepts of storytelling, inner-reflection, interaction and I work across a diverse range of media and material.

Through a poetic lens, I view life and investigate the human existence. I use my art to explore humanity and everything that comes with it,

the past, the present, the future

the before, the beyond

and the within.

My artistic approach is intuitive, I let the making guide me. Through painting, ceramics and metalwork, I immerse myself into a flow state and create with no strict plan. This allows a space for ultimate possibilities where a form can grow and evolve as it pleases.

Curiosity fuels my creative drive. I find myself absorbing information from everything that surrounds me. My practice becomes an abstract response, a sensual exploration where I manifest the essence of the world I see.

My work takes shape in a spontaneous process, an instinctive performance, where I create a reciprocal channel of giving and receiving information with the material. It is a conversation between me and the clay, a physical language to create a tactile form of poetry.

I am exploring forms in a quest that embraces the liminal state.

Liminal spaces exist in the ambiguity between dreams and reality. They become transitional spaces where curiosity, questioning and imagination take place.

My work evokes a sense of movement in a state of stillness.

It’s the space, the in-between, the meeting-point and overlap of ideas,

the fluid stillness,

the familiar yet unfamiliar,

the uncanny yet intimate.

These redolent, surreal landscapes are immersed in a dreamlike atmosphere that stimulate the innate imagination of the observer. Suggestive interpretations trigger them to question what they see while they reimagine the world around them.