SOPHIE DUMARESQ
(2024)

Sophie Dumaresq was the recipient of the 2024 CCAS ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme Mentorship and Exhibition Award. Sophie is a recent Honours Graduate of the ANU SOA&D, and received mentorship and support from Canberra Contemporary in 2024, which culminated in a solo exhibition of new work Punk, Romantic at Platform (formerly CCAS Manuka) in December 2024.

Sophie is an interdisciplinary artist who brings perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative and critical robotics. Working across photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, her work explores what it is to try and share joy, love, laughter and communicate in a universe filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are built inherently differently to that of your own. Her artistic practice seeks to bring voices of difference to the emerging cultures of robotics and computation. Her work explores the politics of care and mischief making through symbiotic cycles of consumption, destruction, and creation, which demonstrate how as a species we relate, show empathy, learn, and evolve with and within our surrounding environment.

Image: Sophie Dumaresq The Punk Rock Idle, Attempt Two (detail) 2024