My name is Sophie Wantia and I founded Studio Wantia in the search of optimism and play within our daily lifes. By collaging a graphic and playful dialogue between the body, objects, and space, I create my own graphic world. In this graphic world I play with recognition and the unknown.

“The start of something new is not accomplished by the mind, but by acts of playful intuition.”

In 2019 I graduated in Fashion Design, at the School of Arts in Utrecht. During my education my enthusiasm for collage and endless experimenting with color, shape and materials grew. This is when I started my research in play. I was blessed to have my graduation project ‘Need to Play’ shown on many platforms, including Amsterdam Fashion Week, Fashionclash and Dutch Design Week. 


In 2020 I was the winner of the Joke Veeze Award and after this I experimented with an interactive exhibition in Rotterdam. In 2021 I won the Epson Design Awards at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. With all these opportunities I got to specialize in print design with sublimation and plotting. 


I’m excited to continue to grow in the right way!

EXPERIENCE



November 2022


July - September 2022


April - June 2022


15.11.2021


21.10.2021


09.04.2020


September 2020


April 2020


05.12.2019


01.11 - 03.11.2019

 

19.10 - 27.10.2019


10.09.2019


06.09.2019


08.07 - 09.07.2019


27.06.2019


26.06 - 30.06.2019


08.10 - 21.10.2018


19.01 - 28.01.2018



Article Texintel


Art exhibition at Puhashop, Utrecht


Art exhibition at Kaffeetaria, Utrecht


Article Texintel for Epson Design Awards


Winner Epson Design Awards


Article by Wonen360


Meet to play workshop and exhibition 't Zandbakkie, Rotterdam


Winner Jooke Veeze Award


Article by Dutch Design Daily


Fashion Clash Festival, The route, Bijenkorf Maastricht

 

Dutch Design Week, exhibition at Design Perron, Eindhoven


Article by NSMBL


Participant Lichting 2019, Amsterdam Fashion Week 


Modefabriek, exhibition The Graduates, Amsterdam


Article by I-D Magazine


Exposure '19: HKU Design, Pastoefabriek, Utrecht


Dazzle to Dazzle, Bijenkorf, Utrecht


Dazzle to Dazzle, Disclosure, Academiegalerie, Utrecht

Instagram Studio Wantia

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Locatie

All handmade, with love and care in Utrecht, the Netherlands.