On the first day of Spring 2022, Sophie Hacker started a one-year Art Residency at Gilbert White’s House & Gardens.

Her exhibition in July and August showcases some of the installations, sculpting, painting and experimental work made during the residency and as a direct result of the research and development undertaken for that year.

About the Artist: Sophie Hacker specialises in Church Art. She is an advisor for A+C, the UK’s leading organisation in the field of visual art and religion, and a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College. Since 2006 she has been involved in both the display, production and curation of artworks for Winchester Cathedral.

​She is an Artist Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, and a member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. Recent commissions include stained glass windows, chapel crosses, vestments and altar frontals, and ecclesiastical silver as well as a range of private commissions in sculpture and glass.

In February 2024, she installed a permanent commission for St Marylebone Parish Church, London. The project was featured on a recent episode of BBC1’s Songs of Praise celebrating the 200th birthday of the National Gallery. Current projects include designing a reliquary for the bones of a seventh century royal saint in Kent, a bronze owl for a private client in Cambridge, a large Orrery for a private estate in central France and a ‘final show’ following a year’s Artist- in-Residence role at the Gilbert White Museum, Hampshire.