Sonia Rollo was educated at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a degree in Botany. She worked in publishing as an editor of the scientific journal, Chemoreception Abstracts.

In 1988 she started studying printmaking at Morley College. In 1990 she was a founder member of Halfmoon Printmakers. She is also a member of Greenwich Printmakers and Southbank Printmakers and a past vice chair of the Printmakers Council.

In 2002, she exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and has also exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions from Newcastle upon Tyne to Atlanta, Georgia. She has work in many private collections and in the collections of The Treasury and P&O Liners.