Dreamlit by Sophia McNab

‘Dreamlit’
Sophia McNab
2022
Archival monoprint on somerset satin
19 x 29 cm - paper size
1/1 Unique work
1/1 Unique work
Framed in sapele wood with 70%UV/antireflective glass
£550 framed

Sophia McNab is an artist and printmaker based in Hastings, East Sussex, with an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School (2019-21).Sophia’s work draws on her family archive to explore memory, agency and our relationship to landscape. Works are presented as a space for remembrance with the passing of time registered through disintegration and concealment. Personal histories are explored through thoughtful material exploration.After a sell out show with Blue Shop Cottage as part of Works on Paper 2022, Sophia has exhibited across the UK including with Warbling Collective and in a two person show at North Coast Asylum.

Memories move in and out of reach. Images hover between appearance and disappearance. Passing moments are caught in time.”These monoprints respond to a collection of family photographs taken on the west coast of Scotland. The ink captures the tender gesture of stroking a treasured photograph, creating a small opening through which it can be glimpsed.The works explore Roland Barthes’ concept of the punctum, set out in his seminal text Camera Lucida (1980). The punctum is the rare detail which attracts you to an image,‘that accident which pricks and bruises me’.“Through the printmaking process I am able to isolate the punctum, as I experience it, and grant it new autonomy. Clasped hands, cold feet in clear water, sunlit sand dunes. It is an act of privacy, obscuring most of the image, and of disclosure, sharing the element which I find most precious.”