Visual Art – Los Angeles

Sophia Vigne is a multidisciplinary artist from Wicklow, Ireland who recently relocated to Los Angeles. Her practice centres around social engagement, identity and a need to shed light on current social issues which are largely being ignored by the mainstream media. As part of this practice Sophia has facilitated numerous workshops for young people in Ireland with the aim of providing a space in which these individuals can discuss identity and the importance of art in the education system. Recently her work has been a reaction to a number of issues in Ireland and attempts to process and make some sort of sense of these through an expressive and often simplistic approach to painting and illustration. Through her work Sophia hopes to raise awareness of these issues and offer a more realistic viewpoint of what it means to be Irish.