ABOUT
b. 2003.
Education:
2022-2025 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking.Glasgow School of Art.
2021-2022 Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. Arts University Bournemouth.
My practice is a testament to my surroundings; entangled in curiosity and stitched together with care, it is rooted in the everyday. It has formed a patchwork quilt of my surroundings and a collage of my findings, documenting the simplicity, abundance and quiet beauty of it all. I use my practice to develop a sence of place and stay connected to the seasons around me as they shift. Drawn to the act of noticing and preserving, I like to extend the lives of what I see, viewing my paintings as postcards or mementos of fleeting moments.
There is a whimsy and magic in the in between and the overlooked. I want to encourage the viewer to notice more and immerse them in imagery, in a world that only I have viewed, my own.
Exhibition History:
Currently showing in Fernliey, Chichester with YAP art. https://www.yapart.co.uk/mabel-pope
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show
Stow Building, Glasgow. May 2025.
At the Top of the Stairs from 281 Hair
Pop-up flat exhibition, Glasgow. February 2025.
WHEN WINDS SHIF
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow. February 2025.
Cambrian Explosion
The Barnes Garage space, Glasgow School of Art. Novermber 2024.
Sorry, can you say that again?
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow. October 2024.
Troubled Grounds
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow. Septemeber 2024.
Strata
Strange Fields Gallery, Glasgow. March 2024
Come For Supper
The Drawing Room, Glasgow School of Art.February 2024.
Bad Art present: Let Them Eat Fake
BWG Gallery, 13 Soho Square, London.
November 2023.
First Etch Glasgow presents: Offset
The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow. Sepbember 2023.
One Year In Glasgow, Solo exbibition.
Burtons Farm, Herefordshire. June 2023.
Narrative Encounters
The Reid Gallery, Glasgow. March 2023.
First Etch Glasgow presents: Slate II.
The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. March 2023.
Drawing on Experience
The Barnes Garage space, Glasgow School of Art. September 2022.
Emerge 2.2
The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth. May 2022.