BELLA HOPE CV

Date of birth: 25/07/82

Glasgow School of Art in 2007 Painting and Printmaking Ba(Hons)              Finished 1 year of an MA at the Royal College of Art in Painting with distinction            

Transferred to Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art - graduating 2026

Instagram: @bellhopp

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2019 All Our Helium Is Escaping Into Space!, Hošek Contemporary, part of gallery weekend Berlin                                                                                        2017     Borderlands, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford                     2016     Where You Lay Your Head, Salon Gallery, Berlin                                  2016     Land of the Lost, Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan                                      2014     Arabella Hope, Flight or Flight, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, (CASO), Osaka, Japan                                                                                         2012     The Lonely Mountain, Giftraum, Berlin                                                   2011     Arabella Hope New Works, Fettes College, Edinburgh                         2010     The Selected Highlights, Fettes College, Edinburgh                           Inside/Outside Fettes College, Edinburgh                                                          2008     Arabella Hope, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Mayfair, London 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2023    A short drink from a certain fountain, Istanbul, Turkey with Irmak Canevi. Exhibition at Yaya Gallery.                                   2019    Hungry Ghost Engines, collaboration with Silas Parry. Exhibition at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh                                                  2018    Hungry Ghost Engines, collaboration with Silas Parry. Exhibition at Contemporary Art Space Osaka,  (CASO), Japan                                   2015 Lass Los, with Martha Breeze, Another Sidewalk Gallery, Berlin

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2026 What Remains Between Us, with Alice Morey and Zu Kalinowska, SP2 Gallery, Berlin                                                                2021    Lost Work, online show with Somerset House. A show I organised as a protest to the RCA throwing out or damaging 150 student’s work in 2020 (including my whole studio) 2020    Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London 2019  Painting Painting Painting,Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin                  2018     Blue Pencil, Curated and exhibited in group abstract painting show with Duncan Passmore, BLO, Nelio, Jackie Riccio and Johannes Mundinger, Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan                                                       2017     Exist, All women show, Mainoeuvre Gallery, Berlin                               3, galerie 102, Berlin (culmination of 3-month residency)             2016     Royal Glasgow International, Mitchell Library, Glasgow                  Everyday Formalism, Keith Gallery, Berlin                                        Grabowsee Art Festival Installation, Brandeburg, Germany                        Silence comes from the hardest working in town, Kreuzberg Pavillon,
Berlin                                                                         2015    Annuale, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh                                             Does Every Name Already Have A Sound? Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin               With Compliments, Oh Pamela, Berlin                                             Career Woman, Holz Kocken Hocks, Berlin                                 2014    Unknown Country. Kottie Paloma, Arabella Hope, Tom Kobilalka Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin                                                               2013    Visual Art Scotland Annual Show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Scottish Society of Arts Annual Show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Paintings from ... Arabella Hope, Silas Parry, Duncan Passmore – Curated and Exhibited, WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh                                2012     Curated- Bridging Cultures Through Arts, an exhibition of Takaya Fujii and Yoshihito Kawabata. The exhibition also included an Artist’s Talk and a series of workshops for students at Fettes College, and a live feed of a Japanese Tea Ceremony

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2023   TRIPTRAP Residency,  Istanbul Turkey

2019   Funding from Openheimer John-Downes 

2019   Funding from The Watt Memorial Trust

2018   Hungry Ghost Engines as a Japan/Scotland collaborative project with the Artist Silas Parry was awarded funding from Creative Scotland and Oppenheimer John-Downes Award for the 308 sq metre exhibition.

2017   Wolfson College, Oxford University and Madgelen Studios Artist in Residence. Funded.                                                                    Galerie 102, 3-month residency, Berlin 2016   Funding from the Hope Scott Trust for the Kyoto Solo Show               2013   Winner of the Duff Memorial Prize for Painting, Visual Arts Scotland    2010-2012  Fettes College, Artist in Residence. 2-year position, Edinburgh

CATALOGUES AND INTERVIEWS

2021- multiple articles in response to the RCA, after I contacted the Guardian Newspaper. Interviews with ArtNet, Dazed, The Art Newspaper, Culted. I also recorded a podcast with The Red Door Podcast.

2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEtFXCa7nHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deAcxlLeuRc 

Two short youtube.com filmed interviews about my practice

2019   Catalogue for Hungry Ghost Engines, Scotland Exhibition with the Artist Silas Parry                                                                     2019   Catalogue for Hungry Ghost Engines, Japan Exhibition with the Artist Silas Parry                                                                     2017   Artist Profile in METAL Magazine, interview and images by Sean Gallen https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/arabella-hope-embracing-limbo