Sophie Hann is self-taught artist (apart from a semester at the New York Studio School on a scholarship) who lives and works on Kaurna Land, Adelaide. Hann received a Bachelor of Art from Flinders University.
While Hann is an independent artist, her accolades include the Dyason Bequest (AGNSW) and the Ruth Tuck Travelling Scholarship. She has been a finalist in major prizes such as the Lester Prize, the Portia Geach, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Brett Whitely Scholarship, Prospect Portrait Prize, the Heysen Prize for Landscape, the Fleurieu Art Prize, the John Fries Memorial Prize, the King’s School Art Prize, and the Lloyd Rees Prize. Hann has received multiple grants and residencies including the Nancy Fairfax Artist Residency and the BigCi residency.
Sophie Hann’s primary interest is in human ecology- the relationship between humans and their environments and environmental ethics, which explores the moral relationship between humans and the natural world, Animals, people and natural world features strongly in her work.
Established in 2021, the National Emerging Art Prize was created to provide an annual, highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual artists in Australia.