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Artist

Renee So

Renee

Working primarily with the mediums of ceramic and wool, Renee So creates sculptures and knitted textiles exploring the international history of sculpture.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Australia, she completed a Fine Art degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1997. Her early practice explored the duality of her heritage, with reference to chinoiserie exports. After moving to London in 2005, she began working on her notable two dimensional, knitted portraits created on a 1970's knitting machine, inspired by cartoon figures, medieval tapestries and ancient friezes.

Her extensive research into the histories of European and Assyrian sculpture have inspired her more recent ceramic bust works modelled on German Bellarmine jugs. Like her knitted portraits, these works depict fictional personas, with elements borrowed from ancient ritual masks, military and aristocratic portraiture, and gladiator helmets.

She has exhibited widely with notable solo exhibitions held at the Henry Moore Institute and De La Warr Pavilion in the UK, Kate MacGarry in London and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney.

Renee So lives and works in London, England.