Emily Pope is an artist living and working in London. She works in film, sound, printmaking and writing. She is interested in series making, and has been making The Sitcom Show, a failed sitcom recording life under austerity measures in the UK, since 2016. Her research explores a history of experimental broadcast media with a focus on humour and satire, queer intersectional feminism, political rhetoric + class politics. 

Solo and group presentations include: Karst; Plymouth, Southwark Park Galleries; London, SARA’s; New York, Quench Gallery; Margate, Ginny on Frederick, Sundy; London, Wysing Arts Centre; Cambridge, The Box Museum; Plymouth, V.O Curations; London, Peak Gallery; London, Paradise Works; Manchester, The White Pube Residency, The Royal Standard; Liverpool, Hester Gallery; NYC, VI VII; Oslo, Auto Italia; London.

Her writing has been published by Buffalo Zine, Bittersweet Review, Elephant Magazine, Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Freud Museum, Bookworks, Arcadia Missa and Montez Press.

In 2023 Pope was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award. She is the director of Montez Press, and co-programmes the London broadcast stream for Montez Press Radio.

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Photo by Rene Matić