Sophie Dodd
I am a neurodivergent artist working across painting, print, multimedia, text, and sculpture. Drawing from my lived experience of autism and dyslexia, my practice explores sensory experience, stimming, overstimulation, memory, and masking. Through playful and sensory-led processes, I encourage engagement while manipulating text to reflect the challenges and possibilities of dyslexia. I take fragments of ableist language apart, deconstructing and reworking until they lose their hold over me and become unfamiliar and open to reinterpretation. My work resists conventional formats, mirroring restrictions within art and social structures. By disrupting expectations, I use art to communicate my perspective and challenge perceptions of neurodiversity.
Exhibition Statement
My project utilises text to explore my neurodivergence through disruption, distortion and repetition. I strip language of its rules, deconstructing and reforming words into new forms. Using ableist language and internalised narratives, I rework, weave and transform text into physical works. The distortion reflects how I process language, as words shift, tangle and overlap, never feeling stable, shaping my perspective. Repetition is central, functioning as stimming, providing focus and grounding. Working in black and white mirrors the text formats I struggle with most, increasing visual complexity and reducing clarity. The work resists readability, inviting viewers to navigate its meaning themselves.
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