A solo show by artist and Near Now Fellow Sophie Huckfield at OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich.
Opening event at OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, on Saturday 6 September 2025 from 2:00PM. Featuring a performance at 3:00PM and Q&A with Sophie Huckfield and Laura Moseley, founder of Common Threads Press.
Lady Ludd re-situates the 19th Century Luddite movement within a contemporary intersectional feminist lens, through the repurposing of an historic loom into an electronic musical instrument. Working with sonics, craft and performance the exhibition seeks to question, subvert, and repurpose our tools as a means to challenge current narratives around technology and progress.
As the world grapples with ethical concerns around automation, AI, and the continued exploitation of the environment and human labour, this exhibition aims to convey an alternative narrative, exploring how communities have historically co-opted and redefined the tools of labour into instruments of agency. Revisiting the history of the Luddite movement through a queer, feminist lens, invites us to reconsider what resistance is and how repurposing has always been a feminist means of survival and imagination.
Dates and times
6–28 September 2025
Gallery open: 12:00PM–6:00PM, Thursday–Sunday.
Closed: Monday-Wednesday.
Opening event: Saturday 6 September 2025, 3:00PM–7:00PM with Performance at 3:00PM and Q&A at 4:00PM
Loom demonstration for Sonic Sculptures II at Broadway Gallery, 2024. Image Credits: Tom Platinum Morley
About Sophie Huckfield
Sophie Huckfield (she/they) is a working class artist, designer and writer.
Their practice is collaborative, political and site-specific. Underpinned by the concept of polyphony and intersectional feminist practice, their work is concerned with platforming and reframing overlooked voices, histories, stories and experiences, which connect to themes around labour, technology, craft, social-class, and (de)industrialisation. When developing work she draws on archival and research materials to co-produce multidisciplinary artworks which move between video, sound, repurposed tools and sculpture, installations and writings.
Previously they have exhibited, performed and screened at The Barbican, The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, Two Queens, Vivid Projects, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Eastside Projects amongst others. Alongside been commissioned for British Art Show 9 Partner Schools program with Arts Connect and Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery.
