ABOUT
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Sofie McClure is an artist working in film and performance. She’s drawn to the camera as an extended sensory apparatus, held in intimate relation to the body. She is continuously re-inventing the physicality of the camera, attaching it to ropes or wearable objects, loosening visual and control and positioning the camera within a constant material exchange. In recent performances she has focused on the materiality of screens, not as ‘channel’ for something to pass through but something acting upon the image and upon us. Her practise is process driven and collaborative, working with artists across dance, sound, theatre and design.
Majoring in philosophy and literature at the University of Melbourne (2018-21), for her Honours year at RMIT, she studied Media and Communications (2022), making an experimental documentary ‘Phosphenes’ and publishing her honour thesis in the Southern Semiotic Review. She is a a member of Dogmilk Films and her work has been exhibited and screened at festivals and galleries, including Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Now or Never Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, Double Vision (ACMI), Quality, 138 gallery, GalleryGallery Inc, and Rumata Artspace. She co-hosts WIP Live at Quality, a night for sharing work-in progess live works of any medium.
Publications:
McClure, S. ‘Porous Bodies: On Touching Phosphenes’ Southern Semiotic Review, Issue 16
CV: download here.
CONTACT: sofie.mcclure4@gmail.com / insta: sofiemcclure