Sophie Clague | Exhibition Opening Celebration of 'Ossature'

Join us to celebrate the opening night of Sophie Clague's Ossature at Eloise Cato Gallery on Thursday 21st August 2025 at 6pm.

RSVP is essential, please book through Humanitix. For further information or to Register your interest in the pricelist please click here. Alternatively email info@catogallery.com or call +61 403 902 498. If you are unable to attend the opening, the exhibition will be on show from the 19th August - 30th August during gallery hours of 10 - 5pm Tuesday - Friday and 10:30 - 3pm Saturday or by appointment.

Based in Warrane/Sydney, Sophie Clague works at the intersection of sculpture and installation, navigating the subtle tensions between figuration and abstraction, drawing and object-making, stillness and movement. Her practice is grounded in a deep engagement with materiality. Where the quiet presence of matter becomes a site for exploring embodiment, memory and spatial relationships. Appearing part human, part creature, part system, her skeletal forms suggest a kind of internal architecture usually hidden beneath skin, padding, or matter. Evoking what is typically unseen– the frameworks that hold us together both physically and psychologically. Which personally for Clague, is warped through the lens of her condition of scoliosis. Distortion sees Clague anthropomorphise, soften, or even subvert expectations of strength and masculinity associated with metal. From the very nature of painted steel, the skin of her sculptures are feminized, emotionally charged gilded lilies in direct contrast to the Minimalist industrialised forms of the mid-century which emphasised form over expression with monochromatic camouflaging. Holding an MFA from the University of Sydney and a BFA (Hons) from UNSW, Clague has exhibited widely across public and commercial spaces, to include Sculpture by the Sea, Alaska Projects, and Firstdraft, and has undertaken an international residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. Winner of the Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture in 2018 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Dyason Bequest in 2017, Ossature is Clague's first solo exhibition at Eloise Cato Gallery.

Twitching Ternix, 2025, Mild steel, resin, pigment, marble dust and chips, coal, mica, freshwater pearls, 92 x 60 x 40 cm. Image courtesy of Sophie Clague and Eloise Cato Gallery.