Sofiyah Ruqayah

Sofiyah Ruqayah works across watercolour, assemblage, sculpture and installation to explore themes of personal and collective entanglement. A reverence for the non-human world underpins her practice, as well as an obsession with 'irrational' cultural practices such as fortune telling and dream interpretation. Recent work explores these concepts within the context of romantic love, using obsolete fisherman's weather instruments that house crystals that slowly mutate in relationship with their environment. She is currently undertaking a 12-month studio residency at Parramatta Artists’ Studios and presented her first solo exhibition at 4A in October, 2021 as part of the Holding Patterns exhibition series. Ruqayah has exhibited both locally and internationally, including group exhibitions at Lubov Gallery, New York; Peacock Gallery and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, with Woven Kolektif, a collective of Australian artists with personal ties to Indonesia.

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