Sophie Mei Birkin is a London-based artist with a multimedia practice-material exploration is central to her work particularly how materials interact to create a psychophysical response. She investigates the generative potential in the transformation of matter through a variety of material processes such as growing salt crystals and exploring amorphous and decomposing substances. Metabolisation, parasites and the carcass are recurrent themes in her work as vehicles for the repeated breaking down of structures, making way for hybrid alternatives to the human and watery slippages [in]between.
Sophie Mei graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, where she was awarded the Euan Uglow Scholarship for MA Sculpture and an Emerging Artist Award by Sarabande Foundation; she has recently exhibited work at Collective Ending HQ, Barbican Cinema, The Artist Room Gallery, Projektraum Claas Reiss and Saatchi Gallery.