BELLA HOPE
CONTEMPORARY ART
Bella Hope is a Scottish artist based in Berlin and London. She makes work informed by environmental science, and animal extinctions. She is showing her MFA degree show at Goldsmiths University London in July 2026 in the Richard Hoggart Building.
pAST PROJECTS
Bella makes playful work about climate change. Much of her work is intertwined with writing, using audio, poetry and artist books.
She has received a BA (Hons) from Glasgow School of Art, and is just completing her MFA at Goldsmiths University.
She has received funding from Openheimer John-Downes and The Watt Memorial Trust.
Bella has had a variety of residencies including Wolfson College, Oxford University, and Triptrap residency Istanbul.
GOLDSMITHS MFA
Bella Hope shows her work in the 2026 MFA Degree Show at Goldsmiths University.
Her work is about the atom transference between all living things, and the finite nature of matter.
Her sculptures are all biodegradable, and will be buried as part of an artist’s film in spring ‘27
HUNGRY GHOST ENGINES
Bella showed a large body of work in Osaka, Japan and Edinburgh, UK, with the artist Silas Parry titled HUNGRY GHOST ENGINES.
A hungry ghost is from a soul that consumes too much in life, and forever haunts the earth eating eating eating. Both artists made work around climate concerns due to overconsumption.
BUTCHER, BAKER, CANDLESTICK MAKER FILM
This film was made during Covid19, and the artist’s daily walks in the woods.
Bella was interested in the affect of the loss of predators have had on sapling growth in forests worldwide. The work was about wolves, and the artist’s dog.