Purl – Sophia Clist, Greenaway, Devon Open Studios

From a background of sculpture Sophia creates installations, sets and objects for audiences and performers to inhabit, manipulate and transform. Much of her work is participatory and interactive, collaborating with the general public and with artists in theatre, dance and music.

Recent theatre and performance work  includes: From Here On – Good Chance, Gecko; Sitting in the Grey – Beyond Face; Would You Bet Against Us? – Told by an Idiot; Birmingham Rep; Space to Be – Oily Cart; The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Kneehigh Theatre, Bristol Old Vic – winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2017; All You Need Is LSD – Told by an Idiot, Birmingham Rep: The Paper Man – Improbable Theatre, Norfolk & Norwich Festival; Journey to the Impossible – Little Soldier Productions, The Bike Shed Theatre; Get Happy – Told by an Idiot, Barbican; Parallelist – Clay Gold & Laura Moody, Aldeburgh Festival; 16 Singers – Katherine Morley, Dance Umbrella, The Egg – Theatre Royal Bath; Phenomenal People – Fuel, WOW Festival, South Bank Centre; In This Place – Pentabus Theatre. A Crash Course in Cloudspotting – Raquel Meseguer Zafe; MAYK, Mayfest; Purl – Festival of St Thomas Stories – Theatre Alibi.

Sophia was Theatre-Rites’ Associate Artist. Over a ten year period she designed many touring and site-specific shows for young audiences, produced nationally and internationally. She co-created the company’s TMA award-winning dance theatre production Mischief with Arthur Pita, commissioned by Sadler’s Wells & Dance Touring Partnership.

Sophia’s independent work includes the multi layered projects Stretch, Hands Full and Purl which continue to develop and show in new site-specific iterations.