Sophie Lee is an artist, writer and Lecturer in Photography at the School of Digital Arts (SODA). She is Level 5 Year Leader for BA Photography, supporting students through the second year of the course.
She teaches across undergraduate modules, including Collaborative Practices, with a focus on helping students develop their creative voice, work collaboratively, and gain experience of professional exhibition and industry-facing projects.
Research and Practice
Sophie is a practice-led researcher specialising in collaborative artistic practice and photography and writing (image–text relationships).
Her work explores how collaboration can create inclusive and supportive creative environments, particularly in relation to feminist practice, care and shared authorship. Alongside this, she investigates how photography and writing can work together to produce narrative and visual forms of storytelling.
Her research is developed through exhibitions, residencies and interdisciplinary collaborations. Recent projects include:
- LULL – a collaborative exhibition exploring maternal labour and collective practice, shown at The Birley, Preston
- Land Dialogues – a collaborative residency and exhibition at Bankley Gallery
- Interruption Pieces – exhibited through British Academy research events
She has presented her work at conferences including Literary Architecture: 1500–Today (Cardiff University) and Courage Calls to Courage (Manchester), and is part of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.
Professional Interests
- Collaborative and interdisciplinary practice
- Photography and writing (image–text practice)
- Feminist art practice and collective authorship
- Exhibition-making and curatorial practice
Exhibitions & performances include Paper Geographies, group exhibition, Atelier Alonso, Arles, France (2022), Always Something Moves, solo show, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK (2020), A Built Moment, Performance, Manchester Central Library, UK
(2020), Make Place, solo show, ArtWork Atelier, Salford, UK (2017),
Conversations Series I, BALTIC Gateshead, UK, (2016). Did you see them? SIM House, Reykjavik, Iceland (2015)
