Sophie
Standford
About

A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace

On paper
In sound

@hortus_silvam
In the Forest Garden Selected Works
The forest garden is a project designed explicitly to inspire and enable research and ideas with regard to exploring the relationship between body, movement, sound and space in relation to the non-human, unfolding over long periods of time and from direct proximity to nature. 

This space started as an opportunity to transform a grass lawn into a rich wealth of diverse flora and fauna; to demonstrate and promote biodiversity in the face of climate crisis compounded by the surrounding intensive, industrially farmed mono-crops that dominate the landscape and environment. More

Antler
Moving Image
colour HD video 2.21” with stereo sound, 2019

...a curious, magical moment of foreboding, evoking an imagined mythology, performing a freely improvised role to camera

Expectancy
 Moving Image
colour HD video with stereo sound - in progress
(un)planted Herbarium research project - in progress

...‘teaching the names of plants and ignoring their songs’.
Storm
Moving Image
colour HD video 7’22” with stereo sound, 2019

...statically observing a wealth of sensations.

DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 a theme on domesticity, 2025
Melt Performance
colour HD video 4’33” stereo  sound, 2019

...a simple metaphor for ice melt as indicator of climate change.
Fig Tree
Performance
colour HD video 3’17” with stereo sound, 2021

“Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still and reaching out and down.”
Performing the forest garden Photograph series
5x7", 120mm, black and white

Pas de deux Moving Image
colour HD video 19’33” with stereo sound, 2021
...a celebration of biodiversity; a driving force behind the forest garden project.
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