Sonia Boue has a performative and responsive visual arts practice. She is also a writer.

Situated between her studio, and online spaces, Boué’s practice has encompassed many forms to articulate a concern with home and the domestic as metaphors for exile and displacement. This has touched both on the historic and the contemporary, and has often been autobiographical. She is also at the forefront of neuro-inclusive participatory arts practice in the UK.

Expansive and eclectic research enables her to create layered responses in paint, film, photography, assemblage, installation and performance; the boundaries between these forms becomes elastic to arrive at hybrid creations, hinting at an embodied duality. Intuitive and process-driven, her work often contains a spirit of improvisation and experimentalism. She approaches the interfaces of analogue and digital with a Heath Robinson vigour.

At the intersection of the visual arts and activism, Sonia generates liminal encounters to arrive at both instantaneous and more considered works. Dialogue is activated by sharing visual output across fora, serving as a catalyst for socially-engaged conversations from which to create further responses, rituals, and invocations to creative resistance through making.

Boué is concerned with objects, identity and location. Rooted in a fascination with family archives, material memory, and the themes of forced migration and inherited trauma, her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in digital form at Tate Britain, the BBC, and Bodleian Library in Oxford. She has performed in the UK, Ireland, and Spain. She has a significant body of postmemory work.

Sonia creates and leads Arts Council England funded projects which pioneer inclusive models of practice. She participates in a variety of community arts projects and carries out visual research in academic contexts.

Sonia was a creative consultant for the  Playing A/Part Project film animation, I Feel Different. A Calling the Shots production for the Arts and Humanities Research Council supported by BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine.

Boué is also currently developing a collaborative neurodivergent practice with the artist Ashokkumar Mistry called Las Gemelas.

Sonia is a Board member for a-n The Artists Information Company and Artist Member for CVAN SE.

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