Sophie Milner’s current body of work explores the ways in which domestic space can be imbued with psychological animation. Careful composition of colour, form and symbolism fragment the pictorial space into a territory of perspectives that forefront their atmospheric charge. The figures within invite us to question their situational agency, paused momentarily on the cusp of their participation in the scenes they inhabit. The resulting paintings are often filled with a sense of quiet restlessness, that toy with the languages associated with movement and stillness, the figurative and abstract, and the self as perceived and felt.

Regularly exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions, as well as international art fairs, her work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and Aesthetica.

‘ A cat calmly watches a smoking volcano in the distance, ants infest a recently vacated room, snails mate in wet summer nights. In these new series of works, animals animate the in between moments of our domestic lives and consciousness. Their intentions are cast ambiguous, their agency as playful pets or malevolent pests left undetermined. They imbue the scenes with subtle tension or absurdity, reconfiguring elements of the domestic into the realm of symbolic storytelling, evoking aspects of fable like stories, and intermingling these with personal observations.’