SOPHIE STEWART
ABOUT
Born in 1997, Highlands, Scotland.
Living and working in Glasgow and The Netherlands.
Lecturer at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.
Sophie Stewart is a Scottish multidisciplinary artist who challenges the acceptance of constraints caused by modern working conditions. She questions dehumanising aspects of precarious work by emphasising the mundane, prolonging repetitive routines, and drawing attention to societal expectations.
Her recent work explores burnout, emotional fatigue, and the contemporary condition, highlighting how the language of enforced optimism falls flat against the realities of exhaustion and economic instability.
Education
2025 Master of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
2020 BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice with First Class Honours, Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow.
2025 WIP, Strangefield, Glasgow.
2024 Civic House Party: With Baile/Baile, Civic House, Glasgow.
2024 Get On With It, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow.
2023 Frequency: Audible Encounters, The Vic Bar & Café, Glasgow.
2022 Street Level Open, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.
2022 A Charmed Life, Short Supply Manchester X Broken Grey Wires, Online.
2022 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2021 SSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2021 A Voyage of Absurdity, Craft Central, London.
2020 Essential Forms, Salt Gallery, Glasgow.
2020 Gray’s School of Art Virtual Degree Show, Online.2019 Embedding, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.
2019 SCO-SKO, Menada, Skopje, Macedonia.
Solo Exhibitions/Curatorial Projects
2025 Urban Coincidence, Billboards in various locations in Glasgow.
2024 Company Property: An Exhibition of Items Stolen from Work, The Barras, Glasgow.
2021 Contactless, The Hug & Pint, Glasgow.
Awards & Funding
2025 Gilbert Bayes, Sculpture Grant, Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust.
2024 GSASA SIP Funding
2024 GSASA SIP Funding
2022 The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Analogue Photography Grant
2021/2022 VACMA (Glasgow)2020 Society of Scottish Artists New Graduate Award
2020 BP Fine Art Award
2020 Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2021
2020 RGU Arts and Heritage Purchase Prize Nominee
Residencies
2021 Artist responder for Perform/Print digital residency, funded by Creative Scotland
2019 Artist in residence on Brae Bravo Platform as part of the Disembarkation project for RockRose Energy, Aberdeen/The North Sea.