Sophia Clist creates installations, sets and objects for performers and audiences to inhabit, manipulate and transform, collaborating with artists in dance, theatre and with the general public.
As a sculptor, she is fascinated by the choreography of materials, objects and form in space.
Working in playful collaboration in devised theatre with artists from many disciplines transformed her practice inspiring her to create Stretch and the performance and participatory installation Hands Full (Fuel, WOW Festival).
Recent theatre designs and installations include: From Here On – Gecko (Good Chance); Would You Bet Against Us? – Told by An Idiot (Birmingham Rep); Space to Be – Oily Cart; The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Kneehigh Theatre (Bristol Old Vic); All You Need is LSD (Birmingham Rep); And The Horse You Rode In On – Told by An Idiot (Barbican, Drum Theatre Plymouth, Brighton Festival).
Sophia was Associate Artist to Theatre-Rites 1998-2008. She designed many national and international touring & site-specific productions (The Young Vic, LIFT, Wiener Festwochen, Teater Der Welt, Polka Theatre, Unicorn Theatre for Children Lyric Theatre Hammersmith).