The work is a play of what if situations. The process starts with an object, whether material or referential (anecdotal history, works of art, literature), and through the use of diverse transforming procedures generate novel and unexpected possibilities.
As with the structure and dynamics of a book, the works often comprise of consecutive elements, inviting interpretations as the viewer’s perception assimilates one then another, activating the potential of these shifting juxtapositions.
Exhibitions and
performances
When skies and sea spilt (installation) - New York Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1 2019
New Voices (travelling exhibition) - Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance, Doncaster Art Gallery & Museum and The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley 2019
At sea (mutable exposition) - Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Tetley Centre for Art, Leeds 2017
Folds and other books by Sophie Loss (solo exhibition) - Chelsea College of Art Library 2016
AMBruno Words (purchase display) - The Poetry Library 2016
Reading with hands in pockets (solo exhibition) - X Marks Bökship, Matts Gallery, London 2015
Eyes make books: books by Sophie Loss (solo exhibition) - University of the West of England 2015
The Other Side of Two: installation by Sophie Loss (solo exhibition) - Wild Pansy Project Space, University of Leeds 2015
Rukssian Artists’ Books: works by artists from the UK and Russia - ‘Tsaritsyno’ State Historical Museum Moscow 2014
Punctuations, Separations and Artists’ Books - The Eagle Gallery London 2013
Reading as Art: Turning the Pages of Victorian Psychology (performance) - Senate House Library University of London 2013
Surfaces: Works on Paper - Sput+nik Gallery, Porto 2012
Ode to Words (peripatetic performance for three voices) - London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011
Preambles and Perambulations (performative intervention) - Charles Dickens Museum, London 2010
Audience to Audience: a play on ambiguity (interactive performance) - The Lab Gallery, New York 2009 and Message Salon Downtown, Zurich 2009
Curated exhibitions
and projects
One and many pages (co-curation of AMBruno project) current
From this to there (BBruno themed project) - New York Art Book Fair MOMA PS1 2019
AMBruno selected works (exhibition) - Volumes Kunsthalle Zürich 2018
[sic] (AMBruno themed project) - Missread Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin 2017
Show and Tell (coordinated the program and display of all AMBruno project books and presentations by artists) - Tate Library and Archive 2017
53 books (AMBruno survey exhibition and talks) - Chelsea College of Art Library 2016
Words (joint coordinator with John McDowall of AMBruno project) - New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1 2016
Re object - responses to the wedge (initiated and curated group exhibition) - The Tetley Centre for Contemporary Art, Leeds 2015
Red (AMBruno themed project) - Small Publishers Fair London 2015
Books and Prints: AMBruno works (exhibition) - Berliner Liste Berlin Art Week 2014
AMBruno Bookworks (exhibition) - ArtsLibris Fira Internacional de l’Edicó Contemporània Barcelona
Lists etc: an AMBruno book project (exhibition) - Leeds College of Art Library 2014
Stills: a suite of prints by 12 artist (co-curated with John McDowall) - London Art Book Fair Whitechapel Gallery
AMBruno 2008-2014 (survey exhibition) - University of the West of England 2014
Book Acts (initiated and coordinated themed group exhibition) - Tetley Centre for Contemporary Art, Leeds 2014
‘I am telling you stories. Trust me’ - a suite of prints by 18 artists (co-curated with John McDowall – ‘Multiplied’ Christie’s 2013
AMBruno: Collaborative Projects and Collections (exhibition) - Old Mining Building, University of Leeds 2013
Black Circle (initiated and curated with John McDowall AMBruno themed project) - London Art Book Fair The Whitechapel Art Gallery 2012
101 (initiated and coordinated video project) - The Lab Gallery New York 2011
Articles, talks
and seminars
AMBruno at Tate Britain Archive: Themed Artists’ Books (article with Cally Trench) The Blue Notebook journal vol 12 no.2 UWE Bristol 2018
Folds and other books by Sophie Loss (exhibition talk) - Chelsea College of Art Library 2016
Re object (article) - 18th issue PAGES Wild Pansy Press Leeds 2015
Book Act: an AMBruno project (article) 17th issue PAGES Wild Pansy Press Leeds 2014
One Fold Books (new book project and workshop) - X Marks Bökship, Matts Gallery, London 2012
Film thoughts (seminar) - The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds 2011
Psycho-geography and me (lecture) - University of Leeds 2011
AMBruno (article) - Artists’ Book Yearbook UWE Bristol 2011
Heading North: The Direction of Artists’ Books Events (article with Nicholas Bruce-Lockhart) - The Blue Notebook journal vol 3 no.2 UWE Bristol 2009
Between gallery and bookshop (round table) - IMT Gallery London 2009
Works are held
in the specialist
collections of
following libraries
and institutions:
Centre international de Poésie Marseille
Columbia University Library, New York
Tate Library and Archive
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse
Edinburgh College of Art Library
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Universitätsbibliothek, Bern
Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York
Yale University Haas Arts Library
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, Sydney
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum
Chelsea College of Arts Library
The British Library
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore