Hope London

Art is how I relate to the world, observing, responding, recording, interpreting, imagining. As a young art graduate In New York, I was part of a group of artists from Jamaica Arts Center that co-founded the first cooperative gallery in Queens (The Exhibitionists) and quickly found myself at the intersection of art and business. For many years I worked in arts management in the US and UK, including four years as director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester where I built partnerships and raised funds to construct a purpose-designed art gallery that continues to thrive today.

I started making the transition back to my own art practice In 2004 with an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for a documentary project at Bury Market in Lancashire. My move to rural Scotland followed. In 2016 I was awarded a Creative Scotland/South of Scotland VACMA Award for a mural project back in my home town, New York. Painting is now my main focus, and I also use sound, video, words...whatever media are needed to realise personal, community and collaborative projects.

Relevant education:
MFA Brooklyn College, City University of New York 1976 - teaching assistant to painter Philip Pearlstein
BA Queens College, City University of New York 1974 - Art Department Honors; studied with Charles Cajori, Mary Frank, Gabriel Laderman

May 2020...solo exhibition at Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, Scotland POSTPONED DUE TO CORONA VIRUS ...but there will be work online, details to follow

2019 - Exhibition for Spring Fling | Dumfries & Galloway open studios, ‘16 Square Feet’ | at Shoots and Leaves, Wigtown, Scotland - the Subject was vegetables and sustainable gardening, and was reviewed in Scottish newspaper The National

2018 solo exhibition and workshops, CatStrand Arts Centre, New Galloway, Scotland

2018 Unit 3 Gallery, Bladnoch, Scotland artist residency and solo exhibition "The Bladnoch Altarpiece" scheduled for April to May 2018

Group Exhibition ‘Place’ at Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, Scotland April-7 May 2018

"If These Walls Could Talk" - mural / residency / exhibition Carlton Arms Art Project, New York (Manhattan) 2016 - supported by Creative Scotland/South of Scotland VACMA award

McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas 2011 and 2012

Spring Fling" Dumfries & Gallery open studios 2007 - 2012. See www.spring-fling.co.uk