TURNER GALLERIES... 2013 EXHIBITIONS

Sophia is a gifted printmaker from Melbourne and is in Perth to participate in the Turner Galleries’ Artist in Residence Programme.

Sophia Szilagyi’s images draw on a long tradition of depicting beauty and the sublime in nature, from masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Turner to more contemporary artists such as Bill Henson. Her prints are not merely pretty or sentimental; they are as much about the power and danger of nature as they are about a search for beauty and truth communicated through images of the natural environment. A sense of wonder and awe at the drama of the natural world infuses her works. Sophia also creates an impression of impending danger, of encroaching darkness in the physical world that reflects an internalized topography, giving form to unseen emotional and imaginative experiences.

Her prints have an ethereal atmospheric beauty, created by overlaying digital images that form shifting and ambiguous surfaces, with strong contrasts of light and shadows. Sophia prints on archival rag paper, giving her images a soft, almost painterly appearance. Her most recent artworks focus on water, from tranquil translucent bodies of still lakes, to powerful tempestuous oceans. She has created an enormous 4.5 metre long print for her Perth exhibition, featuring a menacing, yet fiercely beautiful shadowy seascape.

Sophia Szilagyi’s prints can be found in numerous public collections around Australia including Artbank, the State Library of Victoria, Curtin University and the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum. Her artworks were featured in Simon Gregg’s 2011 publication New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art. She had a sell-out exhibition in 2011 at James Makin Gallery in Melbourne and has recently held a very successful show with Beaver Galleries in Canberra. Sophia studied Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne, graduating with Honours in 2000.

Sophia's residency is proudly sponsored by the Turner Galleries Art Angels and the Central Institute of Technology.

central institute of technology

evening waves edition 1/3 digital pigment on rag paper mounted to diabond 120 x 450cm 2013 $8,700
breaking edition 5/10 digital pigment on rag paper 96.6 x 122.23cm [also available as 44 x 56cm] 2011 $2,500	wave edition 10/20 digital pigment on rag paper 50 x 57.34cm 2011 $880
grounded edition 7/10 digital pigment on rag paper 68 x 78cm 2011 $1,400	dark sea edition 7/15 digital pigment on rag paper 22 x 22cm 2013 $390 sold
ocean view i edition 2/5 digital pigment on rag paper 77 x 78cm 2012 $1,400	ocean view ii edition 5/5 digital pigment on rag paper 77 x 78cm 2012 $1,400
nature hesitate digital pigment on rag paper 140 x 200cm [also available as 57 x 82cm] 2009 $4,200	at the edge edition 12/20 digital pigment on rag paper 37 x 39cm 2011 $630
incoming cloud edition 3/15 digital pigment on rag paper 50 x 80cm 2013 $950	setting edition 4/10 digital pigment on rag paper 80 x 70.65cm 2011 $1,400
furthest shining edition 20/20 digital pigment on rag paper 55 x 82.2cm 2009 $1,100	vision ii edition 20/20 digital pigment on rag paper 54.7 x 57cm 2009 $950 sold
memory edition 1/15 digital pigment on rag paper 44 x 61cm 2013 $880	endless variation edition 5/10 digital pigment on rag paper 44 x 62cm 2011 $880
waiting edition 1/20 digital pigment on rag paper 50 x 75cm 2013 $950	light sea edition 7/15 digital pigment on rag paper 22 x 22cm 2013 $390
matter of the skies edition 3/3 digital pigment on rag paper 135 x 200cm 2009 $4,200