Featured MFA: Sonia Chow
Read more about our next featured 2nd year MFA interdisciplinary designer and artist: Sonia Chow!!!!
Sonia Chow is an interdisciplinary designer and artist from Ontario. She was based in Tokyo and Hong Kong for 16 years where she ultimately worked as creative director and event curator/organizer before returning to Canada in 2018. The design/build of an art suite at Icehotel Sweden nudged her to pursue her MFA Studio in 2019.
Find out more about her work on this blog or her website Website: chowpourian.com and Instagram: @this.is.skatt
We visited Sonia in her studio at Port Campus and ask her to tell Us more about her studio practice.
My practise orbits: communication and codes; word-based art; identity; tactile objects; the exploration of process and materials, both digital and analogue. While I tend to be happiest making things with my hands, I'm also keen to learn how to make use of tools which offer speed and precision.
My studio is at Port Campus and I’m really happy to have a proper space there. It has tons of natural light and a beautiful view of Georges Island. When I can’t get into Port, I work from home or – when possible – outdoors on nice days.
Currently juggling different ideas which take turns at the forefront, depending on what I have access to. Whether investigating materials, processes, function or form, I let the work inform me, both as mentor and muse.
Do you keep a special object in your studio?
St Brigid’s Cross – a souvenir from Ireland from a friend I met in Intro Weaving class as an undergrad. St Brigid is the patron saint of weaving, and the cross is a talisman against harm.
