{"title":"'Inferno' | Sophie Cape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e13 October – 14 November\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophie Cape is a Sydney based painter who creates her works by taking canvases into the landscape and working directly on the ground, exposing both herself and the artwork to the outside elements. Free from constraints, using unconventional mediums and reveling in their gross materiality, her works oscillate between abstraction and figuration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrior to her art career, Cape was a distinguished athlete in both downhill skiing and sprint cycling for Australia. After years of sport-related injuries, she redirected her focus into art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe landscape is both subject and collaborator. Rain, mud, fire, erosion and physical movement become part of the process rather than things she merely represents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch the same way an athlete would she puts her whole body into the process rather than treating painting as a purely intellectual activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer paintings are often described as psychological self-portraits, voicing the dialogue between the internal and external landscape, and of past and present experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, she was featured on Australian Story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophie Cape has held multiple solo exhibitions and won art prizes, including the Hadley's Art Prize, the Portia Geach and the Paddington Art Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has been awarded residencies in Paris, Rome, Austria, Poland, Hong Kong, China, Italy, and throughout Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.5pt; background: white;\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_Hlk47950802\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk47950824;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk47950824;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/7049\/7854\/collections\/sophie-cape-art-exhibition.jpg?v=1788489401","url":"https:\/\/mitchellfineartgallery.com\/fr\/collections\/sophie-cape-exhibition-2026.oembed","provider":"Mitchell Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}