Sophie Coombe
Initially intrigued with the body in relation to the often airbrushed images constantly fed to us through the media, I wanted to prompt questions about what the implications of seeing the body as a canvas would be by suggesting this through my work. Evolving since then, my practice is concerned with the notion of ‘flattening out’ in terms of the model merging with the background, blending the boundaries between where the model and the background begin and end. Evoking thoughts about the human desire to fit in, my work touches upon psychoanalytical territory of disguise and camouflage. Recently the element of performance has been developing in my practice; although generally to the camera, it allows for the body to directly inhabit the space around it, engulfing the surroundings, almost in a new form of vanishing act.