Sophie Huckfield is a working class artist. Their practice is collaborative, political and site-specific. Underpinned by the concept of polyphony and intersectional feminist practice, their work is concerned with platforming and reframing overlooked voices, histories, stories and experiences, which connect to themes around labour, technology, craft, class, and (de)industrialisation.
When developing artwork they draw on archival and research materials to co-produce multidisciplinary artworks which move between sound, video, repurposed tools and sculpture, installations and writings.
Sophie currently performs as Lady Ludd. A feminist and queer project which reframes the Luddite Movement as part of the Near Now Fellowship at Broadway in Nottingham. Where they have repurposed a historical loom—a tool of feminised labour—into an electronic musical instrument, as a form of creative feminist technological resistance in the age of automation.