Sophie
Keith
CV
selected exhibitions:
upcoming:
A Cat Asked My Boss to Fire Me from the Factory Because I Am a Talented Artist, Strange Field, Glasgow, UK
2026
re:levance, LA18 Foundation, Berlin, Germany
This Time I Have a Reason, Abject Gallery, Sunderland, UK
Forsake Madness, Moving Gallery, Sunderland, UK
2025
SCRAN, No More Nowt, Durham, UK
Collective Pulse, Pink Collar Gallery, Sunderland, UK
2024
Color, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea
The Newbridge 'Open' Open, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Ferens Open, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
Memoir, Underbank Studios, Stockport, UK
2023
AI, Priestman Gallery, Sunderland, UK
Queer / LGBTQ+ Artists Exhibition, Norfolk Street Arts, Sunderland, UK
Now That's What I Call Art 2, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2022
Shieldfield Home, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2021
Now That's What I Call Art, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
education:
The Collective Studio, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne (2021)
Master of Fine Art, BxNU Institute (BALTIC x Northumbria University) (2015 -2017)
Ba (Hons.) Fine Art Northumbria University (2011 - 2015)
awards/grants/bursaries:
2026
Artist Materials Bursary, Outside In
teenage engineering - project sponsorship and hardware grant for the creation of "The Bad Thing" utilizing the EP–1320 Medieval sampler
2023 & 2025
North East Artist’s Fund, Art Network North East
2015
BALTIC Scholarship
workshops:
2023 - ongoing
Artist Facilitator, Freelance
2025
Ceramic Workshop Facilitator, No More Nowt, Durham, UK
2023 - 24
Ceramic Workshop Facilitator, The Pottery Experience, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2017
Film Club: But I'm a Cheerleader, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
publications:
2017 Polyester Zine
performance:
2026
The Bad Thing, Abject Gallery, Sunderland, UK
2017
Eat Your Greens, BALTIC 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Halfway Homes, Catacombs, Twilight Zones, BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Sausage Flavoured Love Dream, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2016
Northern Explorers, with Elizabeth Black, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden