About Sonia Martin

Following graduate and postgraduate studies in Fine Art, British artist Sonia Martin completed a Masters Degree at Camberwell College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows including London Art Biennale; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; London Original Print Fair; New Hall College, Cambridge;  the Barbican;  Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition;  Bankside Gallery;  Contemporary Art Society; Gallery Different; Dentons Art Prize.

Awards include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award; Tessa Sidey Purchase Prize; London Art Biennale Exhibition Award;  GX Gallery award; Winsor & Newton Watercolour Prize; Eaton Fund for Artists; and Oppenheim-John Downs Memorial Trust Award.  She has attended artist residencies in Spain, India, Ireland, Bolivia, and Mexico, and she is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize.

Sonia Martin’s work is held in many private and public collections including University of the Arts, London;  Aberystwyth University Gallery and Museum, Wales; New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge; Southwark Art Collection, London;  Cork Printmakers, Ireland; Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire;  Chhaap Foundation, India;  Morley College, London; Art UK National Collection; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford;  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge;  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Museo d’arte di Chianciano, Italy; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Arising from her response to the past and to the present, Sonia Martin’s subjects are a merging of the here and now and the imagination. The figures often appear to be searching for their place in the world, reflecting on past experiences and future hopes.  Exploring themes of memory, mortality and freedom, the paintings are a search for renewal through new understandings.

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