Sophie-Nicole Dodds is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across bespoke tailoring, printmaking, drawing, film, and participatory workshops. Her practice is informed by expanded fashion methodologies and investigates how garments and materials hold traces of touch, care, and memory through everyday encounters with cloth.
Through intimate research into clothing rituals and acts of un-wearing, Sophie juxtaposes her outdoor life with her inner, domestic world. Drawing from archives and personal experience, she creates bespoke fashion artefacts that use fashion systems as a means of expanding the field, rather than containing it.
Recent projects include Illuminating Objects at The Courtauld Gallery and a solo exhibition at the Constance Howard Gallery, where she presented installations and prints made from garment remnants, drawings, and historical pieces.
Sophie has extensive industry experience within the fashion and costume sectors and has worked closely with historical dress collections in museums and archives, including The Courtauld Gallery and Goldsmiths Textile Collection.
Thank you for visiting my website. I welcome invitations to speak, write and collaborate. Please get in touch via email sophienicoledodds@outlook.com or feel free to follow me on Instagram @sophienicoledodds
Exhibitions
Hedge Studio, ‘Rhythm and Labour: Grit and Graft’ No Bounds Festival, Sheffield September 2025
Kristian Day Gallery, ‘Perennial’, Wirksworth June 2025
Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, Wakefield, March 2025
Fronteer Gallery, ‘Contemporary Textiles’ Sheffield, February 2025
Fronteer Gallery, ‘Meet the Locals’, Sheffield, January 2025
Constance Howard Gallery, ‘Careworn’ Solo Exhibition, London May 2024
Young Collectors, Fen Ditton Gallery, Online May-July 2024
Mid Wales Art Centre, Caersws, November 2023
Peckham Craft Show, Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, November 2023
Open Studios, Space Studios, Hackney, London, December 2022
The Drawing Year 22 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch, London, December 2022
‘Best of the Drawing Year 22’ - Christies, King Street, London, November 2022
‘Illuminating Objects - A Pair of Beakers’ - The Courtauld Gallery, London, November - April 2021
Fife Contemporary, Resolve to Make it New - Online Exhibition of Darning Care Kits from the project ‘A Domestic Residency At My Parents House - Fife, 2021
Modus, Onomatopee Projects - ‘How to make when you have lost’ publication in their archive installation- Eindhoven, 2021
‘Illuminating Objects - A Silk Fragment’ - Science Museum, London, May - August 2021
‘Found In Translation’ - MA Exhibition, Goldsmiths, London 2020
‘Peckham Craft Show’- London Craft Week, London, 2019
‘Making A Mark’ - The Trampery, London 2016
Workshops/Talks
‘Drawing exploring ceramic form’ Completed Works, London, November 2025
‘Peter Doig drop in life drawing workshop’, The Courtauld Gallery, After Hours Event, London, February 2023
Fashions & Embodiment’, Talk & Drawing workshop for MA Students, Goldsmiths Textile Collection/Constance Howard Gallery, London, January 2023
Courtauld Cast Podcast, Episode 4, August 2022
‘McQueens Annual Illuminating Objects Seminar’ Courtauld Research Forum, Online Talk, June 2021
Fashions & Embodiment’, Online Talk for MA Students, Goldsmiths Textile Collection, January, 2021
‘Repair as Everyday Activism’, Women's History Month Event Goldsmiths, Online Talk, April 2021
‘Drawing Documenter’ Unpicking Fashion Constellations Workshop, Constance Howard Gallery, London, January 2020
Residencies
Dumfries House February 2025
Dumfries House - September 2024
Dumfries House - April- May 2023
Moritz-Haymen, Pigano, Tuscany, Italy, July 2022
Publications/Press
https://plastermagazine.com/features/sheffield-artists-northern-arts-funding/
https://www.selvedge.org/blogs/selvedge/careworn-sophie-nicole-dodds?srsltid=AfmBOoqhLa8LIAXEwr7lgt32SFrhiZtLkkIzJnCGTJwAIQOFAt7UUJ00
https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/unseen-threads-drawing-textiles-and-garments-in-archives
‘Field Notes for Design’ Volume 1 - Illustrations from fields notes in ‘Paper Visit’ publication for project called ‘Seat Change.’ - Naho Matsuda , Juliet Sprake, Charis Poon, 2021
‘How To Make When You Have Lost' - Sophie-Nicole Dodds, 2021
‘Paper Visits’ - Sophie-Nicole Dodds, with letters from Tara Plummer, 2020
‘Inanimate Placement’ - Sophie-Nicole Dodds & Jess Frankland, 2016
Education
The Drawing Year - Royal Drawing School, 2021- December 2022
MA: Design Expanded Practice - Goldsmiths, 2020
BA (Hons) Bespoke Tailoring - University of Arts London, London College of Fashion, 2016
Foundation Art & Design - Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, 2012