Sophie Stewart is a Scottish multidisciplinary artist who challenges the acceptance of constraints caused by modern working conditions. She questions dehumanising aspects of precarious work by emphasising the mundane, prolonging repetitive routines, and drawing attention to societal expectations.

Her recent work explores burnout, emotional fatigue, and the contemporary condition, highlighting how the language of enforced optimism falls flat against the realities of exhaustion and economic instability.

Her degree show work integrates real workplace slogans – ‘Yes I can!’ –  with found/faux objects and fragments from her daily commute and work environment, exposing the ways corporate language and learned behaviours permeate everyday life. Through sculptural interventions, she creates moments of interruption – intermittent confrontations that capture both the illusion of hope and the weight of entrapment. These works offer a pointed commentary on the fantasy of financial escape, while subtly critiquing the pervasive influence of consumer culture.