Background
She was born in East Molesey, south-west London.
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Sophie Aston
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She took her Foundation Diploma in 1990-1991 at Wimbledon School of Art before taking her Bachelor Honours in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1991-1995. She co-founded a gallery in Glasgow before studying for her Master of Arts in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art from 1997-1998. Of her work at the John Moores 23 Exhibition (2004), the critic John Carey said on Newsnight Review, "lieutenant was just on the edge of realism.
Extraordinarily evocative painting." Regarding her work and that of two other exhibiting painters, he said, "I would have gone to Liverpool for any one of those three." She currently teaches on the Bachelor in Fine Art at Brighton University and at the Mary Ward Centre.
March 2007 “Beneath Unfamiliar Skies” Amber Roome Gallery, Edinburgh September 2005 “New Paintings” Studio F2 The Nunnery, London June 2005 The Crown and Manor Club, London, with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Cedric Christie, Peter Newman September 2004 John Moores 23 Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Liverpool January 1995 The Hunting Art Prizes Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London.
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