Sophie Blackburn (b.2003) is an artist, maker and writer based in Glasgow/Liverpool. Their artwork is disseminated through image and text-based media, publication, woodwork and sound and installation; making instruments and effects cabinets that introduce analogue kinetics and digital electronics housed inside carved wooden exteriors. Their installation work merges curatorial strategies, critical theory and historical observation with sensory and interactive elements to recontextualise public and private histories found in literature and archives and explore alternative participatory forms of engagement with manuscripts and literary collections, covering subjects and themes such ritual kinesics, subcultural histories and groups, poetics and folklore. Sophie Blackburn has completed writing and research for artworks and essays exploring areas of history, culture and literature from communes in sixties Germany, Absurdist theatre in Europe, European and American convents, the history and medieval folklore of pigs and agriculture, to producing extended revisited publications that recollect dispersed archives.