Sophie Cundale


Sophie Cundale is a British artist who lives and works in London. Cundale studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and works across film, performance, sculpture and writing.

Works

In 2016, Serpentine Galleries commissioned her film After Picasso, God. The 42 minute film sees a woman visit a hypnotist to address an unwanted addiction. The title refers to the artist Dora Maar, Picasso’s lover and muse, who after the break-up of their affair, declared: “After Picasso, Only God.”
In 2020, Cundale’s solo exhibition The Near Room premiered at South London Gallery and later traveled to Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. The Near Room is a film about the aftermath of grief that follows the journey of a professional boxer after a near-fatal knockout. The boxer’s disorientations become entangled with the story of a queen living with Cotard Delusion, a rare neurological condition inducing the belief in and sensation of death. The film stars artist Penny Goring, Actor Chris New, boxer John Harding Jnr and trainer Mark Tibbs. It received reviews in The Guardian and was commissioned by film and video umbrella.
Half Life is an erotic science fiction novel centred on Pearl, a scientist who develops an infatuation with radioactive waste. The work was first presented as a performance at the Energy Cultures Conference at Castello di Rivoli. In 2024, Chapters 1–4 were commissioned and published as an audio work by Castello di Rivoli, and in 2025 the project was presented as a sound installation at the Industrial Art Biennale. A conversation about the work with curator of the project Giulia Coletti appears in Cura.

Performances and films

Doubles performance with writer Izabella Scott, Barbican CentreMemoirs of Amplexus as part of ‘Yay, to have a mouth!’ Ginny on Frederick and Rose Easton, LondonGuinea Pig performance with artist Lewis Walker as part of Future Fantasies: Intimacy and Fiction, Somerset House, LondonHalf Life performance at Energy Cultures Conference, Nuclear horizons of the planet, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin

Group shows and biennales