Emily Pope is an artist, editor, writer and broadcaster whose multidisciplinary practice spans moving image, radio, printmaking, performance, installation and publishing. She is known for her incisive engagement with humour, satire and political rhetoric. She has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London; Oxford Brookes University, Oxford; Reading School of Art, Reading University; and Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Pope’s work critically engages with histories of experimental broadcast media, using the televisual form as a framework to reflect on contemporary social life under austerity. Since 2016, she has been developing The Sitcom Show, an ongoing project that positions the failed sitcom as a site for political commentary, staging everyday life within shifting conditions of class struggle, dyke identity and feminist thought.

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Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, including presentations at Quench, Margate; SARAS, New York; Ginny on Frederick, London; Sundy, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; The Box, Plymouth; V.O Curations, London; Peak Gallery, London; Paradise Works, Manchester; and The White Pube online Residency.

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Pope’s writing is published widely, with contributions to Bittersweet Review, Buffalo Zine, Elephant Magazine, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Lesley Magazine, Low Theory, The Freud Museum Catalogue, Bookworks, Arcadia Missa, Montez Press and Autoitalia. In 2024, she wrote the column Confessions, with Emily Pope for Elephant.

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Between 2023–25 she was an awardee of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award, which included a studio residency and development grant. She is the director of the independent queer publisher Montez Press, and lead curator at Montez Press Radio, London. She lives and works in London, and is currently looking for a publisher for her debut novel.