Sophie Carnell is a contemporary silversmith living and working on Lunawanna-Alonnah, Bruny Island, Tasmania, where she is inspired by the stunning landscape surrounding her. After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania, Carnell focused on contemporary jewellery and silversmithing and has continued to develop her practice through the completion of courses in metalsmithing and jewellery design. As a result, Carnell has been able to teach herself a variety of skills that have greatly informed the creation of her delicate sculptures.
Carnell seeks to illuminate the hidden and easily overlooked; to instil a sense of wonder and joy in the small and disregarded; to seek out the poetic in the unexpected; and to create space to question our connections to place. Most recently, this has expressed itself in the examination of the plant life of her environment, highlighting and accentuating its preciousness both through the use of scale and her chosen medium.
