TRAINING
BA Hons Fine Art Exeter College of Art & Design
Post-graduate Sculpture Course Central St Martin’s School of Art & Design
THEATRE & DANCE
| 2023 | Sitting in the Grey – Beyond Face; Barbican Plymouth, Devon schools |
| Space to Be for hospices – Oily Cart | |
| 2022 | Would You Bet Against Us? – Told by an Idiot; Birmingham Rep |
| 2021 | Space to Be for homes – Oily Cart |
| Get Happy – Told by an Idiot, Barbican; Greenwich and Docklands International Festival 2020; Beijing Comedy Festival 2017; Barbican 2013 | |
| 2019 | Journey To The Impossible – Little Soldier Productions, Bike Shed Theatre 2017 |
| 2018 | All You Need Is LSD – Told by an Idiot, Birmingham Rep |
| The Paper Man – Improbable Theatre, Norfolk & Norwich Festival; La Strada, Graz | |
| 2017 | Parallelist – Clay Gold & Laura Moody, Aldeburgh Festival |
| The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Kneehigh Theatre, Bristol Old Vic 2016 | |
| 2015 | 16 Singers – Katherine Morley, Dance Umbrella, The Egg – Theatre Royal Bath |
| 2014 | Life Forces – Jane Mason with Phil Smith |
| 2013 | Oxygen – Dreadnought South West Association |
| 2012 | The World At Your Feet – The Barbican Theatre Plymouth, Plymouth Dance, Attic Dance, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Plymouth Music Zone |
| 2011 | And The Horse You Rode In On – Told By An Idiot, Drum Theatre Plymouth, Barbican, Brighton Festival |
| 2008 | Cinderella – Lyric Hammersmith |
| 2007 | Mischief – Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita, Sadler's Wells, Dance Touring Partnership |
| 2005 | Hospitalworks – Theatre-Rites, Polka Theatre, Theater der Welt |
| The Thought that Counts – Theatre-Rites, Barbican Bite05, The Young Vic | |
| 2004 | In One Ear – Theatre-Rites, Lyric Hammersmith |
| 2003 | Shopworks – Theatre-Rites, London International Festival of Theatre, Weiner Festwochen |
| Finders Keepers – Theatre-Rites, Unicorn Theatre for Children | |
| 2002 | Catch Your Breath – Theatre-Rites, Lyric Hammersmith |
| 2000 | Sleep Tight – Theatre-Rites |
| Pilloworks – Theatre-Rites, Visions2000, Festival of Animated Theatre | |
| Angels and Exiles – Matthew Hawkins Company, The Clore Programme – Royal Opera House | |
| 1999 | Cellarworks – Theatre-Rites, London International Festival of Theatre LIFT99 |
| 1998 | Ripe Nights – Matthew Hawkins Company, Union Chapel |
| Lost and Moated Land – Theatre-Rites |
INSTALLATIONS
| 2023 | Hands Full – Sophia Clist, Assembly, N-E-W Ashburton; Paper Play, Thelma Hulbert Gallery 2019; Shop Front Festival, Theatre Absolute 2018; Phenomenal People, Fuel, WOW Festival – South Bank Centre 2012 |
| 2022 | Purl – Festival of St Thomas Stories – Theatre Alibi |
| A Crash Course in Cloudspotting – Raquel Meseguer Zafe, MAYK, Coventry City of Culture 2021, Camden Alive 2020, Unlimited | |
| 2020 | Hands Full Ensemble – Sophia Clist and company, Lizzie Humber, Mothers Who Make |
| 2017 | Stretch – Sophia Clist with Nick Burge, Art Week Exeter, Exeter Cathedral |
| 2016 | Dreaming The Night Field – Adverse Camber |
| 2015 | Grandmothers – Encounters Arts |
| 2014 | Paper People Purl – Sophia Clist, Unicorn Theatre |
| 2013 | In This Place – Pentabus Theatre |
| Endless Spiral – Sophia Clist, Sadler's Wells | |
| West Side Story – Sophia Clist, Sadler's Wells | |
| Sadler's Sampled – Sophia Clist, Sadler's Wells | |
| Wo/Man – Impermanence Dance Theatre | |
| 2012 | Phenomenal People – Fuel, WOW Festival – South Bank Centre |
| 2011-2003 | Stretch – Sophia Clist, Crying Out Loud |
| 2010 | Purl – Sophia Clist, Port Eliot Festival, Beyond The Border |
| 2004 | Outside In – Theatre-Rites & Sophia Clist, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre |
| 1997 | PanOptika Tabula Rasa – International Arts, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith Broadway Centre |
| 1995 | Spiral Tent – Sophia Clist, Coin Street Community Builders, VJ Day Coin Street Festival |
EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
| 2023 | Assembly – N-E-W Ashburton; contributing artist |
| The Legend of the Custom House – Art Work Exeter, Paula Crutchlow, Volkhardt Müeller; contributing artist | |
| 2014 | The Story Exchange barrow – Theatre Rush |
| 2005 | Hans Christian Andersen – Theatre-Rites at The British Library |
| 2004 | Finders Keepers – Theatre-Rites, Unicorn Theatre at Livesey Museum for Children |
| 2001 | Taking Shape – Theatre-Rites at The Theatre Museum |
| 1999 | 8 Play sculptures – Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea at Emslie Horniman Pleasance Park |
| 1999 | Feather – Berkeley Homes & City of Westminster at Marylebone Road |
| 1995-2001 | Display schemes – London, Baker & Spice |
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS awards
Told by an Idiot, Falmouth University, University of Winchester, Central School of Speech & Drama, Westminster Adult Education Service, Brunel University, Sure Start Hammersmith, Portobello Arts Festival, LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, London Borough of Brent, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Coin Street Community Builders, Riverside Mental Health Authority, ACAVA (Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art)
AWARDS
Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2017 – The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Kneehigh Theatre; TMA Awards 2008 – Achievement in Dance – Mischief, Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita; Sophia was shortlisted for the Jerwood Choreographic Research Project II 2016