12/07/2026
We are delighted to present two, new, limited edition screenprints by Sophie Herxheimer in our current group exhibition âAnd Other Animalsâ.
Sophie is a South London-based artist and poet whose practice spans drawing, writing, collage, printmaking and performance. Using primarily analogue processes, she creates work which explores memory, heritage and culture through storytelling.
Sophie Herxheimer
âIn Sydenham Hill Wood 1â and
âIn Sydenham Hill Wood 2â, both 2026
Screenprint
72 x 51cm (each)
Edition of 12
In Sophieâs words:
âSydenham Hill Wood is a favourite place for myself, my family and our dog. We have wandered under its cooling oaks and hawthorns over a few decades, and the main creatures we see are parakeets, crows, pigeons, foxes, bugs, dogs and fellow walkers.
When I was thinking about this show, and local animals, I decided to begin with a poetry constraint. I got out my notebook and started to look for all the animal names I could create from the letters of Sydenham Hill Wood.
I was surprised to find a hyena, a whale and a few swine in the woods, as well as all the other beasts you see depicted. The only likely local one I drew was the toad; but of course there is no T in Sydenham Hill Wood.
The limited choice of letters being an aid to focusing the mind, I wrote this poem, which I hope you will agree has a soundscape all its own, omitting as it does, so many familiar consonants.
I was grateful to the animals in the poem for addressing me, and as this was so unexpected, it seemed to warrant a change of colour. They gave me excellent advice which may, if we listen to them, help us all steer a path through the (real and imaginary) woods.â
These limited edition works were printed in collaboration with Suki Hayes-Watkins.
Sophieâs new prints can be found at the gallery amongst many other creatures in our group exhibition âAnd Other Animalâs which continues until 2 August.
Link in bio to shop Sophieâs prints or visit our online shop at oliverprojects.com đŠą
