Sophie Carnell is a contemporary silversmith living and working on lunawanna-alonnah Bruny Island, Tasmania.
Inspired by Australia’s unique landscape, Carnell seeks to illuminate her local microcosm and it’s hidden and easily overlooked plant life. To instil a sense of wonder and joy in the small and disregarded; seek out the poetic in the unexpected; and create space to question our connections to place. She expresses her observations by highlighting and accentuating the preciousness and fortitude both through the use of scale and her chosen medium.
Working primarily in responsibly sourced Australian fine and sterling silver, Carnell makes delicate art objects entirely by hand, a slow and intricate process – a powerful learning experience to make by observation and find ways of morphing material into new forms.
Carnell makes objects that speak to the worth of our environment, the effects that landscape can have on its inhabitants, and, conversely, the effect that those occupants can have on their surroundings.
