CV - Sophie Ploeg

Selected Exhibitions

Harley Gallery, Welbeck Abbey, Identity & Dress, solo exhibition, Worksop 2016
Catto Gallery, duo-show, London 2016

Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018
Manchester Art Gallery, Artists in the Frame: Self Portraits by Van Dyck and Others, 2015
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2013, 2014
Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London 2012, 2014, 2015
Royal West of England Academy of Art RWA, Bristol 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI, Mall Galleries, London 2011, 2015
Society of Women Artists SWA, Mall Galleries London 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists RBSA, Portrait Prize Exhibition, 2013, 2017
Royal Society of Miniature Painters, 2017
Bath Portrait Prize, 2012
Bath Society of Artists, 2017, 2018, 2020
Blackheath Gallery, London, 2016
Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol, 2014-2015, 2019
Haynes Galleries, Nashville/Thomaston, USA, 2013 – 2016
Principle Gallery Alexandria, USA, 2014

Sophie Ploeg Blog BP Portrait Award 2014

BP Portrait Award 2014, National Portrait Gallery, London

BP Travel Award

In 2013 I won the BP Travel Award at the BP Portrait Award exhibition, which gave me the opportunity to research 17th century portraiture and the depiction of lace and fabrics in it. Inspired, I created 10 new paintings, a selection of which were exhibited within the BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition, which toured from the National Portrait Gallery in London, to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Sunderland and Wales.

More info on the BP Travel Award.

Awards

2d Prize International Artist Magazine Still Life Competition, 2015
BP Portrait Award: Travel Award, 2013
Winsor & Newton Choice Award, Society of Women Artists, 2011
Finalist Artist & Illustrator’s Self Portrait Competition, 2007

Selected Publications

Artists & Illustrators Magazine, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2016 (read here), 2018
The Bark, 2017 (read here)
International Artist Magazine, 2015
American Art Collector 2015
500 Portraits: 25 Years of BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, 2015
The Lace Trail, publication by Sophie Ploeg to coincide with the BP Travel Award, 2014
BP Portrait Award, exhibition catalogue, 2013, 2014
The Jackdaw, 2014
The Pastel Journal, 2014
Pratique des Arts, 2012

Education

Ph.D Art & Architectural History, Vrije University Amsterdam, University of Groningen (Rhetorical Theory and English Baroque Architecture)
MA Art & Architectural History, Vrije University Amsterdam