Sophie Herxheimer

Sophie is an artist and a poet. She has held residencies for LIFT, Museum of Liverpool, The Migration Museum and Transport for London. Exhibitions include The Whitworth, Tate Modern, The Poetry Library and The National Portrait Gallery. Sophie has illustrated five fairy tale collections, made several artists books and created a 300 metre tablecloth to run the length of Southwark Bridge. An ongoing project is collecting stories live in ink from members of the public. Recent publications include: Your Candle Accompanies the Sun (Henningham Family Press), Velkom to Inklandt (Short Books) and (with Chris McCabe,) The Practical Visionary. Sophie teaches for The Royal Drawing School, and has contributed a chapter to their Thames and Hudson book, Ways of Drawing. Her latest collection is 60 Lovers to Make and Do.