Sophie Marritt is an artist and sound recordist, working with sound, video and installation.
‘I like to layer, distort and remix sounds, it takes you to another place. Combined with moving image, sound can change your perception. In my work images and sound are layered and remixed to re-imagine an alternative world or sense of place.’

Natural Fictions

A rising supermoon with sounds of the sea and a supermarket self service checkout feature in Flight, 2017.

Time stretched calls of herring gulls accompany a ship leaving harbour in Natural Fictions_ Breydon Water, 2020, with the sound work used as an installation for Submarine, Yarmonics 2019.

Dead Straight Drive Thru

In Dead Straight Drive-Thru, 2023, the song of a skylark overlays the reverberation of the incoming sea in a main drain outfall and simulated sound of water percolating a dry chalk riverbed. This work was shown in 2023 in The Ground Beneath our Feet at at GroundWork Gallery, where Sophie Marritt had been one of the artists in residence.

As Sophie Marritt says ‘These re-imagined scenarios draw on our everyday experiences in a changing climate, drought followed by torrential rain, storm surges and coastline management, pollution and exclusion from the few ‘wild’ spaces that remain. ‘

Bioacoustics

‘I caught the wildlife sound recording bug in 2016, it opened up fascinating acoustic other worlds; the ultrasonic frequencies of bat and dolphin echolocations, stridulations of crickets and water beetles, the wing beats of bees. It is also helps to monitor of the health of wildlife habitats and biodiversity.’

More About Sophie Marritt

Sophie Marritt was born in Sheffield (1965), moved to Norwich in 1990 as a researcher in biophysics at UEA. After working in the Netherlands, she returned to Norwich to explore her creative instincts, graduated in BA Fine Art Painting, Norwich School of Art and Design in 2001. Sophie is a member of the WSRS, Wildlife Sound Recording Society.
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