sophie wonfor work

“they don’t keep well in vases or glass dishes or pools of water even,” 

multimedia installation, august 2016

Ritual / Virtual at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax

1. video stills

2, 3. installation view, photo credit: Selina Latour

perhaps that has nothing to do with gardens at all

2015

relief + screenprint + resin block

“perhaps that has nothing to do with gardens at all”

that what you have seen, could be false

a humble second life for shade, reconsidering the shadows our first impressions overlook.

words + illustrations in lithograph + screenprint on shodo,

staple-bound on chipboard

edition of 18

physically (the real thing): http://sophiewonfor.bigcartel.com/product/that-what-you-have-seen-could-be-false + https://www.facebook.com/events/434125170121470/

container gardens

4x6″ screenprint + collage

//preserve///

july 17 - 19, Young Offenders Gallery

Halifax, Nova Scotia

"Intentionally subverting traditional botanical illustration, PRESERVE negotiates our contemporary relationships with plants and emerges from a pool of resin, spangled with weeds, tropical compost and wildflowers."

"this doesn't look right, but what did the garden even look like the first time" 

book accompanying //PRESERVE/// 

summer, sometimes

is released, june 3 2015 !

http://sophiewonfor.bigcartel.com/product/summer-sometimes

you can also read it online, but there’s just nothing like the real thing