Sonya Dyer
Catching Feels
For Deptford X, Sonya Dyer has created a speculative sound work accessible online and at listening stations across Deptford, set in the neighbourhood across time and space. Climate, migration, history and legend and all the things that distract us from futures that feel both imminent and far away.
Tracing Deptford’s history and speculating possible futures, this work fuses fact and fiction through storytelling, sound and atmosphere.
Listening stations at Lewisham Arthouse, Art Hub at Mornington Centre site, Studio 101 and online accessible via Soundcloud here (Sonya recommends listening using headphones)
Listening Stations Opening Hours
Tue – Fri : 12pm – 6pm
Sat & Sun : 10am – 6pm
Preview
Fri 11 July 6pm – 8pm at Lewisham Arthouse
Thank you to our venue partners Lewisham Arthouse and Art Hub.
Access information:
Art Hub – The gallery space and toilets at Art Hub Studios have step free access.
Lewisham Arthouse – There is step free access to the gallery space. There are no parking facilities at Lewisham Arthouse, but free on-street-parking and disabled bays are available in the surrounding streets. An accessible toilet with baby changing facilities is located on the ground floor.
Listen to Sonya in conversation with Kwong Lee on her commissioned sound work Catching Feels:
Sonya Dyer is a commissioned Deptford X 2025 Artist
Dr Sonya Dyer is an artist from London, working primarily in moving image and sculpture. She was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021, and is an alum of the Whitney Museum of American Art: Independent Study Program.
Dyer’s practice explores where the centre is located in fictional narratives of the future. She explores how subjectivities and alliances are formed across cultures and temporalities, creating radical futures through unexpected connections. Recent work includes, hybrida composita (2024), a sculpture commissioned for the permanent collection at The Box, Plymouth and Portals (2024) a digital collaboration with writer Rivers Soloman for LAS Foundation, Berlin.
Recent exhibitions include hybrida composita, The Box (2025); We Have Reach, Usdan Gallery (2025), USA; Action>Potential, Alchemy Festival of Film and Arts (2024); The Ready Room, Primary (2024); Three Parent Child, Somerset House (2023); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2022); Whitstable Biennial (2022); Directions: Forward, Karst Gallery (2021); Thirteen Ways of Seeing, Herbert Museum and Art Galleries (2021); Art Night London (2021); Rewriting The Future, Site Gallery (2019); Or, Dark Fecundity, The Centre for Afrofuturist Studies (2018), USA; Another World is Possible, CAMP (2018), Copenhagen; and The Claudia Jones Space Station, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The NewBridge Project (2017), Newcastle-Gateshead.
Image credits:
1 – 3) Sonya Dyer, ‘Catching Feels’ commissioned by Deptford X 2025. Installation photos Katarzyna Perlak
4) Sonya Dyer, ‘Catching Feels’, digital photograph, 2025
