Details

First Name

Jenny

Last Name

Pope

Username

jennypope

Website

http://www.jennypope.com

Region

Edinburgh & The Lothians

Disciplines

Sculpture, Ceramics, Installation

Themes

Site-specific, Political, Identity, Narratives, Environment

Statement

Statement

She has a fascination with the inescapable changes that happen in our internal lives and also externally in the natural environment. She uses beachcombing and collecting discarded objects as both a meditative activity and practical taxonomy of found relics. Through links between archeology and taxonomy she examines the intuitive/primitive use offound objects as contemporary worry beads, tools or talismans.

She produces a range of work from small delicate objects to large-scale sculptural pieces. At the core of her practice is experimentation with the limits and possibilities of materials such as porcelain, ink, felt, textiles and paper. She uses the analogy of weathering of objects to suggest the uncertainty and changes we all face as human beings. Recent research has led towards the edge of textiles, creating personal sculptural spaces in response to the tension between comfortable containment and restraint.

Currently she is creating a collection of tools using old objects exploring psychological change, combining different components to layer the past functions and specific applications to create a non linear narrative, to capture the intangible way in which we make decisions, inform changes and how our minds deal with uncertainty.

Biography

Biography

Jenny Pope has a studio at WASPS in Albion Road, Edinburgh. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a BA in Ceramics and then graduating in 2005 with an MA in Sculpture. She uses a broad range of materials to explore the inescapable changes that happen in our internal lives and also externally in the natural environment.

She exhibits mainly in the UK and has won professional development awards. She regularly exhibits with SSA and VAS, where she is a professional member. She has recently been elected to the Royal British Society of Sculptors, in London. She has recently worked on a Creative Scotland funded residency with Art Walk Projects, and  exhibited with 2 other artists about ’Tools for Survival’. She had a solo show at Upright Gallery, Edinburgh in 2020. Currently exploring how to make her sculptures move with the help of a VACMA bursary and preparing for an installation in the pottery kilns in Portobello in 2021.

She divides her time between practicing artist and mental health and wellbeing work and is currently a Life Coach and mentor.

https://jennypope.co.uk/cv/  for full CV