Charlie Sofo

Charlie Sofo was born in 1983 on Wurundjeri Woi‑wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Victoria, and continues to live and work in Naarm/Melbourne.

His practice spans drawing, sculpture, video, text, performance, and installation, shaped by a commitment to working with what is immediately at hand. Ordinary objects, simple actions, and pared‑back scores form the foundation of his approach, allowing everyday materials and gestures to be reconfigured into experimental and often quietly humorous works.

Alongside his visual practice, he is an active writer with published essays and creative texts that expand and reflect on the ideas embedded in his artworks.

The critic and poet Emily Stewart has described his practice as “hyper‑local”. This grounding in the immediate environment is not a constraint but a generative field: a site in which attention becomes a tool, and the familiar becomes strange.

Through this blend of poetic simplicity, conceptual clarity, and deadpan humour, his practice invites viewers to consider how the most ordinary elements of daily life can become material for rethinking experience, place, and perception.

For Yield Strength, Sofo has transformed The Studio into a time capsule, which invites you to write a list of all the things that happened to you today, or this week or year.