Sophie Paul

  1. Read All About It: Feminist & Queer Newsletters at the Feminist Library
  2. Permanently Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera
  3. The Crystal Monologues
  4. Nuclear Knock Off 
  5. People Like Us
  6. Five Years of Sticky Fingers Publishing
  7. Essay: We Make Space With Our Own Words
  8. “I had a vision of political utopia...”
  9. The Most Realest Thing There Is 
  10. Essay: No Place for Our Quick Stuff
  11. Access Consultancy for RCA2022  
  12. Sticky Fingers Publishing

Sophie Paul is a designer and writer based in London. Her research is concerned with self-organised feminist print practices and support structures. She makes work about iridescence, girls, and the instability of language.

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Read All About It: Feminist & Queer Newsletters at the Feminist Library – 2025



With Sticky Fingers Publishing and the CHASE Feminist Network. 

This workshop explored Feminist Library’s collection of feminist & queer newsletters, putting a focus on the role that design and production plays in community publishing. As a group we spoke about how these histories relate to contemporary print practices, and copied , cut and pasted our own collectively produced newsletter based on the libraries source material. 

Permanently Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera – 2025




Permanently Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera by Sophie Paul and Kaiya Waerea explores enclosure in England, and the privitisation of gender technologies and media practices. Published in How To Sleep Faster #15: Private, by Arcadia Missa Publishing, it was collaborativley staged at Goldsmiths CCA in April 2025, with members of the audience playing all 21 parts. 

Buy the journal here.

The Crystal Monologues — 2024 

 


Foregrounding affective intersections between language, sensation, and cheap glitter, these monologues are drawn from an ongoing research project, which attempts to gather together a definition for iridescence as it exists across contemporary art, writing, and pop-culture. Its ideas are refracted through queer phenomenology, feminist new materialism and SF; icebergs, waxwork figures, and video-game avatars.

Nuclear Knock Off — 2024      

                                                
Collaborative reasearch project with Juliette Pénélope Pépin exploring the contemporary nuclear condition, and the shimmering language of the ‘Knock-off’. A poster-zine and assemblage-website host two-voice writing, research diaries, and visual work.

People Like Us – 2024




People Like Us is a seven year long project of gender affirming portraiture by ⁣Holly Revell. Designed by Sticky Fingers Studio.

Five Years of Sticky Fingers Publishing — 2024       

                       


A retrospective of the first five years of Sticky Fingers Publishing’s activities at Maximillian William Gallery, London. The display includes our whole back-catalogue of publications, a monthly risograph printed mail out, event ephemera such as posters and flyers, test prints, the residue of party games, open call posters, fair signage and our banner, stickers, film photographs, studio notes and lists. 

We Make Space With Our Own Words — 2023




Feature for New Contemporaries Journal 2023. Reviewed work by Adama Dercilia Bari, Savanna Achampong, Rhys Morgan & Abi Palmer.

Read the piece here.  

“I had a vision of political utopia...” — 2023

 


Group exhibition and book work ft. work by Lily McCraith, Kaiya Waerea, Stuart Bannocks, Matilda Greenwood, Charlie Brookes, Kevin Sollis, Matilda Engelmark, Sophie Paul, D-Press Peas, Em-dash Press and Soul Miles, with production support from Olivia Fitzpatrick.

“I had a vision of political utopia...” is a short film & accompanying print installation. 

The Most Realest Thing There Is — 2022




Essay & performance produced whilst on Kunstverein München’s interdisciplinary artists’ residency on Lake Ammersee, Bavaria. An experimental non-fiction essay considers responses to Clarice Lispector’s question in Agua Viva: “What is the color of spatial infinity? It is the color of air.” The resulting text is a trestise on an anti-production residency model, kitchen-gardens, and weather patterns. Readings took place as part of a solo show in August and a group show in September 2022 at Lucky (München) in collaboration with Künstverein Munchen. 

Text published in Dangerously Flexible anthology by Plus X (Berlin) and Künstverein Munchen. 

No Place for our Quick Stuff – 2022


 

Exhibition review of ‘Eccentric 80s: Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen, Rabe perplexum, and Contemporary Accomplices’
at Lothringer 13 Halle. 

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Access Consultancy for RCA2022



Show Visual Identity Access Consultancy for Europa
RCA2022 Website

Sticky Fingers Publishing – Ongoing




Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant press based in South East London, run by Kaiya Waerea and Sophie Paul. We are a feminist, queer, disabled-led publisher producing experimental non-fiction at the intersection of academia, visual culture, art, design and performance.

Sticky Fingers Publishing put together open call anthologies, commission essay collections, and produce print-based ephemera with our Risograph RP3700. We frequently work with an expanding roster of associate editors and producers. To celebrate the work we do we organise events in collaboration with Donna the First at queer bars in London and beyond.


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