Sophie Pegrum
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My romance with the circle, like itself, is simple and complex. It fascinates me in its fundamental simplicity, the gestural movement, or earliest marks reflects back to us the apparent shape of our sun and moon, the movements of our planets, a dial in which we measure time, our place in the cosmos. It holds order and yet feels organic, though it is mathematically irreducible, and is highly complex. Besides my philosophical fascination with its form, and its representations, I do find working with it a harmonic experience. My revolving application of paint into this form is a very physical effort and manifests an exploration of the un-manifest, the non-rational, the potential and the axis mundi of the spirit…
BIOGRAPHY
Sophie was born and educated in England and now lives in Southern California. As well as painting, she is also a documentary filmmaker and photographer who has recently worked in the Arctic and Antarctic. Her film documentary film “Stellar Axis: Antarctica” is currently on the film festival circuit. She also co-owns an equestrian film company, Horsefly Films.
Inspired by the numinous dread and wonder at the billions of stars overhead in dark English skies, her work is coloured with the collective awe that humanity shares for our fragile finite selves in the infinite vastness of the cosmos. Her starting points often involve massive stone and earthworks of astronomical significance, and attempt to speak to the human impulse to solidify the incalculable chaos of the universe in finite ways, through a created collaboration of science and art.
EDUCATION
University of Sussex, Brighton, England?First Class BA with Honors
June 1993?Dean’s Honors List 1989-1993?Junior year at UCLA
Nationality: British, US Permanent Resident (Green Card)
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Creative Arts Center Gallery/Women Painters West, Burbank?Visual Literacy, 2nd City Council, Long Beach?Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Japanese American National Museum, Antarctica Documentary Screening?Mixing Mediums – Angel’s Ink Gallery, San Pedro?The Brewery Artwalk (John Smith Studio)
2007 Photographer in Residence – Yamal – Russian Icebreaker to North Pole?Deborah Page Gallery – Video Installation Collaboration?Score VI – Valley Institute of Fine Art – Juried Show?The Greening of Fine Art (Discovery Home Network/EpoXybox)?Brewery Artwalk (John Smith Studio)?Solo Show – Polar Light -– Topanga Canyon Gallery?Stellar Axis: Antarctica – Fresno Art Museum (Video Installation collaboration)?Women, Then & Now – Track 16, Bergamot Station (Video Installation collaboration)?Healing: A Cultural Exploration – Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2006 Stellar Axis: Antarctica – Documentary Filmmaker, Antarctica,?Snap to Grid: LA Center for Digital Arts?Earth to Sky: Topanga Canyon Gallery?Create:Fixate Group Show, Downtown Los Angeles
2005 Solo Show – Forbidden Translations, Electric Lodge, Venice?Juried Show – Topanga Canyon Gallery?Studio Tour, Topanga Canyon?Brewery Artwalk Group Shows, Downtown Los Angeles
filmography 1996-2007
Director: DOGSTAR (16mm feature) Zero Pictures (DVD Release)?Island
of Mirrors –Digital Feature (Vbox Pictures)?Teddy Bears Picnic EPK – Digital (Vbox Pictures)?The Marwari (Daisydog Films) – In Progress?Stellar Axis/Terra Lux: Lita Albuquerque (Solar Nine Films)
Writer: DOGSTAR (Zero Pictures – DVD Release 2002)?Ground on Fire
(First Serve Entertainment)?Matadora – Feature Screenplay?Billy Bones – Feature (Scriptapalooza Runner-up)?Deadwater, Plentywood – Feature Screenplay?My Best Friend Joe – Feature Screenplay (GoldenShadow Pictures)?Jackie Papers – Short Screenplay?The Eden Enigma – Story Treatment?Medicine Dogs: A Story of Horses
Editor: DOGSTAR – Feature (Zero Pictures, 2002)?Rage – Feature (Zero
Pictures, Release unknown)?WaveLock – 5 Minute Promo
(Internet)?Hunger Relief 2000 – Fundraising Promo?Sal Barbier Profile – 5 Minute Profile (Internet)?Cowboys & Indians – Documentary (festival circuit)?Q: The Short – Film Promo?Island of Mirrors – Hour Special?Interactive Reading Books – Educational?Aussie Nad’s Infomercials – Half Hour TV Spots (National Air)?Blonde From Fargo – Music Video?Medicine Dogs: A Story of Horses – BLM Promo?Horsefly Films: Equestrian Promotions?Stellar Axis: An Artist In Antarctica
videographer:
Q – The Short – Digital (Jamontoast Films – Promo)
Documentary Series, Fifty Up (Pandora’s Other Box)
Medicine Dogs: A Story of Horses (HorseTV)?Horsefly Films
Equestrian Footage(Horsefly Films)?Stellar Axis: An Artist In
Antarctica
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Owner/Producer/Director Horsefly Films 2004-Present, Equine Video Production Company Horseflyfilms.com
Owner/Producer/Director Solar Nine Films 2004-Present?Documentary Film Production Company
Grant writer/Expedition Team Member Lita Albuquerque Studios 2006-2007?Grant writing assistance, PR, publicity and web development, research and engineering development for large scale Antarctic installation, documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles, Antarctica and Arctic.
Business Manager Murielle, 2004-2006?Collaboration with designer to manage operations of multi-million dollar garment design house, websites, pr, production, human resources and financial development.
Producer & Editor Freelance, 1998-2004?Produced, post produced and edited national and international spots for tv and film. AVID, offline from logging, editing, edls, online and voiceover supervision through to broadcast and traffic. Final Cut Pro and Media 100.
Non-Profit Operations Manager MAZON – a fundraising, grantmaking organization, 1994 – 1998?Managed operations of busy nonprofit, accounting/budget $3.5 million, personnel, administration, payroll, support staff supervision, fundraising, grantmaking, donor/vendor liaison, computers/database.
Library and Information Systems Birmingham University, UK, 1988 – 1989,?University of California, LA, 1993, Liaison with academics to create special book collection, administration of overseas lending, public inquiries and complaints, invoice processing, guided tours and library information systems, 1991 – 1992
Youth Leader Birmingham City Council, 1987 – 1989 Other graphic design, ad design, press releases and teaching (art & polar film)
