{"id":12266,"date":"2023-11-11T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2023-11-11T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:59:22","slug":"sonia-boue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/sonia-boue","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Bou\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two Eyes<\/em>
10.5″x7″; paper collage on vintage book cover; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sonia Bou\u00e9<\/strong>
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, collage-making is a redemptive process of making the fragmentary whole. Collage is also a cipher where ritual and allusion become embedded in strata-like paper layers. My work is experimental and often concerned with texture and the practice of d\u00e9collage. I find I can work in ways unimaginable in any other medium, due to the expressive range and accessibility of the collage form. I use collage to capture and process the present moment and thus my subject can be fluid and ever-changing.

My collages respond to my subject and the sensory qualities of my materials\u2013\u2013the properties of paper are extremely important to me. I need to love the texture and print quality of an image source for a collage to flow. How papers adhere to a substrate is key to this feeling of flow\u2013\u2013some papers are so delicate they melt into the substrate while others resist. There\u2019s always a tussle between discipline and experimentation in my work, but I\u2019d rather go in a new direction than follow a linear path. The common thread is a need for order and resolution.

As a neurodivergent person, I\u2019ve often felt dislocated and in-between, collage is a liminal form that crosses many divides. Along with its accessibility, I think this is why its collage has lent itself so perfectly to my Arts Council England-funded participatory project and forthcoming publication for neurodivergent people\u2013\u2013Neurophototherapy: Playfully unmasking with photography and collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonia Bou\u00e9 is an Anglo-Spanish multiform artist and collagist. She is also a writer on neurodiversity in the arts. Sonia has a significant body of post-memory works, including commissions with Tate Britain and the BBC. Her current focus is an innovative neuro-inclusive participatory collage practice. In 2021, she developed a method of hand-cut collage for her Arts Council England (ACE) funded project, Neurophototherapy-a collage-based support for neurodivergent people<\/em>.

In 2022, she received a DASH\/Ampersand Award commission to stage a live collage intervention on Instagram. She received further ACE funding in 2023, to publish Neurophototherapy: Playfully unmasking with photography and collage<\/em>, which has also been generously supported by The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection. Sonia also has several works in the prestigious Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, has written the foreword for Laurie Kanyer\u2019s 2023 publication, Collage Care: The Method<\/em>, and had collages published in The Sand Journal<\/em> and Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture<\/em>. In 2023, Sonia was shortlisted for a Contemporary Collage Magazine<\/em> Award for Neurophototherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[click to email<\/a>]
www.soniaboue.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Punk!<\/em>
10.5″x8.5″; paper and tape transfer on vintage book cover; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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August (a state of suspension)<\/em>
10″x7″; paper on vintage book cover; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A grief observed<\/em>
10.2″x8.5″; paper on vintage photo mount board; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hand on heart (let the healing begin)<\/em>
10.5″x8″; paper on vintage book cover; 2022
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