Sophie Underwood is an Australian-Greek collage artist, photographer, and activist whose work is informed by her much-loved island homes of lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia and Kastellorizo, Greece.

Underwood’s work emerges from the deep universal realms of the human psyche. Informed by experiences of nature, the numinous, the cosmos, and dreams, symbols and archetypes as languages of the human heart.

Without knowing her bloodline, Underwood slowly came to realise she had created the main symbol of her Kastellorizian heritage: the boukla – a round buckle decorated with flowers. The unconscoous emergence of her blood/ancestral/cultural memory.

Her work demonstrates our shared ancestry and humanity through the interconnectedness of people, place and time. Underwood’s work calls on each of us, as part of the soul of the world, to be our greater selves and highlights the importance of beauty in our everyday lives.

Underwood’s most recent collage series, seven vibrant Boukla flower mandalas, each a colour of the rainbow, are created from thousands of flowers hand-cut from vintage applique, embroidery and fabric and further refined using paint.

Underwood has had two solo art exhibitions and is working on a new photographic book and Boukla II series created from hand-embroidered flowers.