Born June 23, 1968 in Johannesburg later moving from Kliptown to Cape Town, where Sophie became a full-time student at the Community Arts Project, going on to teach at CAP in 1994. As an educator, Sophie has taught in a variety of places and organizations including the Child Welfare Society, the People’s Centre in Nyanga East, the Sakhile Children’s Art Project in Mitchells Plain, the Visual Arts Group at Luyolo Community Centre in Gugulethu as well as numerous other projects and workshops for children and adults alike.
Sophie has produced work in various mediums from linocuts to sculpture to oil paintings. Peters has exhibited both nationally and internationally and in recent years her works have been featured in several major South African exhibitions.
Sophie Peters is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans printmaking, public murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and illustration. Her work engages themes of memory, spirituality, community, and womanhood, chronicling the lived experiences of Black South Africans with warmth, humour, and resilience.
