Through her meticulous, introspective approach, Emily Pope creates works that blend personal symbolism with universal resonance, offering a space to pause, reflect and connect with the transient beauty of existence.
Emily Pope's practice is an intimate meditation on time, memory, and the slow, deliberate process of creation. Her work transcends the finished image, focusing instead on the act of painting itself: slowly, methodically, and repetitively. Using a soothing colour palette, Pope's paintings often explore fleeting feelings or ideas, capturing an earnest attempt to preserve the ephemeral. Through her work, Pope wishes to convey earnestness and a sense of compassion for existing. Pope reminds us of the value that lies in this effort of exaggerated preservation, even if impossible.
Emily Pope (b.1993, Canada) is a painter living and working in Toronto. Pope earned her Bachelor of Design from OCAD University in 2015. In 2023, Pope's work was featured in group exhibitions at Pictorium Gallery in London and Dahlia SL Gallery in Mexico City. That same year, she held a solo exhibition at Sens Gallery in Hong Kong. Most recently she exhibited at Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto. Pope's practice explores the pairing of her body with symbolic elements and settings, amplifying her experiences of womanhood.
