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EMILY POPE 
London, UK

Emily Pope is an artist working across moving image, radio, printmaking, writing and publishing. Her practice is concerned with humour and satire, feminism, class politics, political rhetoric and experimental forms of broadcast and storytelling. She is particularly interested in using popular and accessible forms to examine power, ideology and contemporary life.

She is Director of Montez Press and curator for Montez Press Radio (London), and has written for publications including Elephant Magazine, Buffalo Zine, The Bittersweet Review, Bookworks, Arcadia Missa, The Freud Museum and Auto Italia. Her long-running video project The Sitcom Show (2016–present) explores life under austerity through the form of a failed sitcom.

EDUCATION
MA Writing — Royal College of Art
Alternative MA Fine Art — School of the Damned 
BA Fine Art — University of Reading

AWARDS
LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award — 2023–2025

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
Something Absolutely Crucial — Quench Gallery, 2025
Out of Step with the Season — SARA's Gallery, New York, 2025
Poison Pen — Ginny on Frederick, London, 2023
Nothing is Trite — Immaterial Salon, ART O RAMA, Marseille, 2022
Pen Pusher — V.O Curations, London, 2021
The Sitcom Show – Series Finale — Peak Gallery, London, 2019
The Court Summons — Ladette Space, London, 2016
Wandle Park Poster Commission — Turf Projects, Croydon, 2016

SELECTED DIGITAL COMMISSIONS

Yank The Chain (with Ruth Angel Edwards) — Wysing Broadcasts, Wysing Arts Centre, 2022
One In Every Village — The Box Contemporary Art Museum, Plymouth, 2021
Skiving Off — The White Pube Online Residency, 2018
The Court Summons (video presentation VI, VII) — VI VII, Oslo, 2017

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Discord and Harmony — KARST, Plymouth, 2026
You Make Me Feel — Southwark Park Galleries, London, 2025
LOOK, LIGHTNING HAS STRUCK THE FLOWERS — Sundy, London, 2022
Every Woman Biennial — Copeland Park, Peckham, London, 2022
Millenialism — Paradise Works, Manchester, 2019
Fort Sumac — Enclave, Deptford, London, 2019
Notes on Queerness — The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2018
Fluid Festival — Birmingham, 2017
Slippery When Wet — HAHA Gallery, Southampton, 2017
NAWKI Film Festival — Southend, Bristol, Nottingham & London
The Disposable Journal with Montez Press — Matthew Gallery, New York
A Vanitas Painting — SERF, Leeds
Feral Kin — Auto Italia, London
Tarantellegra — Hester Gallery, New York
How Much Are They Paying You? — The Royal Standard, Liverpool
The GobCentre — Sunridge Avenue Projects, Luton
Trace Programme / Aspirational Living — Flo Skate Park, Nottingham

WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
What’s the Cheapest, Bluest Way to Do It — Buffalo Zine, 2026
Bittersweet Review — 2026
Confessions (Monthly Column) — Elephant Magazine, 2025
Interview with Lea DeLaria — Lesley Magazine
But Julian, I’m a Little Bit Older Than You — Solitary Pleasures Catalogue, Freud Museum
Got 2 B Ambivalent — Happy Hypocrite, Issue 9, Bookworks
No One Will Ever Love You the Way Your Mother Failed To — How To Sleep Faster 7, Arcadia Missa
Primadonna Post Madonna Embodiment — Montez Press
On Coping — Auto Italia
Art is a Guarantee of Sanity — Laugh Magazine, Issue 1
Don’t Make Me Nervous, I’m Holding a Baseball Bat — Trace Programme / Aspirational Living
There is a Guinea Fowl, On a Chain, in the Garden — Honey I’m Home, Royal College of Art
The Posters Were Everywhere, Where is Ana Mendieta?
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Sonia — Curating the Contemporary
Only Fools Vote Tory and Self Care Rhymes with Cher — Curating the Contemporary
Four Seasons of Corporate Social Responsibility — Curating the Contemporary
Moved By Art — Curating the Contemporary

PUBLISHING & EDITORIAL
Director — Montez Press 
Independent publisher working across contemporary art, literature and experimental writing.
Curator — Montez Press Radio 
Independent radio platform for experimental broadcasting, conversation and cultural programming.
Columnist — Elephant Magazine (2025)

SELECTED PERFORMANCES, TALKS & EVENTS
Fail Like Fire — ICA, London
Time for Success — Tate Britain, London
Solitary Pleasures Symposium — Royal College of Art
ONLY A SMALL DEATH — The Art School, Glasgow
Not Your Circus — ICA, London
Plymouth Literature Festival — Ocean Studios, Plymouth
Companion (with Rosanna McLaughlin) — UP Projects
Performance Club — Art Licks Weekend, London
Who Will Go To Art School — Panelist, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
Art School in the Age of STEM — Panelist, Wimbledon School of Art, London
A Fine Art Degree, Will I Ever Practice? — Chair, Rich Mix, London
East London Fawcett Art Audit Launch — Research Presentation, Calvert 22 Gallery, London