Ms Sophie Hayes

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  • Qualifications:Aurora Advance HE leadership development training, 2022: Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), 2018; MA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art in Barcelona, Spain, 1997; BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, 1995.
  • Position:Programme Leader: Fine Art
  • Department:School of Arts
  • Telephone:+4411732 85812

About me

In my art practice I work with a variety of media including large format analogue photography, moving image and installation. The work interrogates how the physical qualities of specific locations can act as vehicles for psychological experiences. It often exists within the factual guise of the document, but through the choice of place and use of sound and editing, it can evoke a sense of catastrophic drama.

Exploring sites ranging from a mundane rural fly tip; to vast stone quarries on the Isle of Portland; to the derelict and vandalised skeletons of abandoned naval accommodation blocks; my interest lies in how the representation of these depopulated sites can describe or induce internal states in the viewer. 

I have exhibited nationally and internationally, showing work in solo and group exhibitions in public venues in the UK, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. I have also undertaken residencies in Europe including at the Centre of Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czechia; Staranzano, Italy; and Edsvik Konsthall, Sweden. 

I am a member of Document + Location, a research group developed by academics at the University of the West of England working across multiple disciplines. Document and Location investigates how our understanding of place is directly formed through how locations are recorded and subsequently narrated by different disciplines. The group utilize practice-led research to re-animate and re-contextualise the document and to explore specific locations, the way in which these locations are communicated and consequently how the identity of place is created through its representation. http://www.documentandlocation.org

My current roles at UWE:

Programme Leader: BA Fine Art; BA Art + Writing

Module Leader: Developing Practice in Fine Art 2; Professional Practice: Work Experience

Fine Arts Admissions Tutor 

Teaching and assessing - all levels


Area of expertise

contemporary art practice; teaching + learning fine art; recruitment and admissions; professional practice and careers development for fine art students


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