Sophie Hoo is an artist, arts producer, access consultant and disability rights advocate.

She completed a Fine Art degree at Central St Martins, University of the Arts in London, UK. She went on to champion arts education and disability rights while working in the Learning departments at the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

Community building has always been an essential element of Sophie's career. She has researched, developed, and delivered several accessible and community-centred learning programs, including art-focused talks, gallery tours, and creative workshops designed to meet the needs of people with physical, sensory, and intellectual disability.

Sophie now works as a contemporary artist from her studio in Sydney, Australia, where she creates drawings and paintings using graphite, watercolour, and acrylic on cotton paper and canvas. Her artworks are inspired by concepts of time, transience, memory, and identity. She uses a gentle, accumulative approach to mark-making, mapping the hours, days, and weeks.

Pictured: ‘Passage’, Graphite on Cotton Paper, 56 x 76cm