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    Work
        Phantasmagoria
        Senses in Transition
       
    About

    Contact
 
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Sofie van Thiel (1997) is a Rotterdam-based artist working primarily with the medium of painting. Since graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2022 with her series ‘Senses in Transition’, her work deals with translating daily impressions and feelings to paint. The results are intimate conversions of raw emotion through intuitive brush strokes, pushing herself to keep exploring new techniques, materials and sizes.

In her most recent series ‘Phantasmagoria’, Sofie explores phenomena of dreamlike hallucinations, inspired by the state in between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the initial visualizations of her paintings are born. Enigmatic moments that can hardly be explained in words are conveyed with oil paint, concluding in a colorful and fantastical surge of energy on canvas.



CV
2023 BIG ART, Amsterdam NL
2023 Spotlight, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2022 Groupshow, Kaapse Maria, Rotterdam NL
2022 Nominee Bachelor Research Award, Willem de Kooning Academy
2022 Graduation Show, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL

2017 - 2022 Bachelor Illustration, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL
2020 Exchange Fine art and Political Ecology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS

Publications
Gallery Viewer, Art Rotterdam Catalogue, 2023
Research Document, Senses in Transition: a Dialogue in Paint, 2022
WdKA Graduation Catalogue, 2022

Copyright © 2023 Sofie van Thiel