In the studio with Sophie Barber
Julia Michiewicz, émergent magazine
June 2021
Your art often references birds. What is your connection to these animals?
My dad’s a birdwatcher, bird conventions and all that, he would get a notification a bird had landed and drive miles to see a glimpse of it through a hedge, and I’d go with him. Or we would get there and it would of flown. We’ve always had bird books in the house, I like the really old ones with film stills of them flying. Had a budgie, hatched some chicken eggs in an incubator last year, and my boyfriend just gave me a beautiful yellow canary for my birthday. […]