LAURA HOPES
  • projects
    • BOGWITCHES
    • Not a (Field)Guide to the Future
    • Flock Stones
    • Bounders
    • Cuckoo
    • Hemicircle/Encircle
    • Theatre of Ruins
    • Otolith
    • and the crowd goes wild...
    • Marginalia
    • Vertex + Reflex
    • Crazywell
    • Not to be taken
    • Lacuna: Colour of Distance
    • Walking the Line - Plymouth Breakwater
    • Through a glass, darkly
  • exhibitions/other
SOLO WORK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025: Commissioned artist, Remember Nature, KARST and Tate Modern, London
2025: Cuckoo, Wild Exhibition, RAMM, Exeter 
2024: Deadstock and Excuse me, blocking - Fenster KARST and Studio Paradiso, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2024: Not a (Field)Guide for the Future, Dartmoor, A Radical Landscape, RAMM, Exeter
2024: Flock Stones, Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix
2024: Bounders, Shopwork, Frome
2023: Cuckoo, Od Festival, West Coker
2022: Undercut, Under KARST, BAS9 fringe event KARST studioholders
2020: And the Crowd Goes Wild publication/ film screening. B-Side Festival. Portland
2019: Otolith installation, AiR commission. National Marine Aquarium. Plymouth
2019: Lacuna, Unbounded Exhibition. Eden Project. Cornwall
2019: Ruins: Theorem exhibition and symposium. Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin. Cambridge
2018: Not to be Taken, Sluice Exchange at the Kühlhaus. Berlin
2018: Marginalia, Ingenious Soil, Being Human Festival commission. Exeter
2018: And the Crowd Goes Wild sound installation, B-Side commission, Portland
2018: Not to be Taken, Mount Florida x PAC home screening. CAA. Glasgow
2018: Vertex+Reflex, Artistic Research Will Eat Itself Exhibition. KARST. Plymouth
2017: Tank screening, Liquid. AQB. Budapest, Hungary
2016: Lacuna, Inland Festival. Future Project. Redruth
2015: Cargo: The Island, Lasalle College of the Arts. Singapore
2015: Unheimlich, For Collage, Print House Gallery, London
2014: Source, Bornshorts Film Festival, Experimental Film Category. Denmark
2014: Cinematik Piestany Film Festival, Short Films Category. Slovakia
2014: Bodies of Water film screening, Royal West of England Academy. Bristol

SELECTED COMMISSIONS, PAPERS, EVENTS 
2021: Social Distance, Journal Paper for Issue 10, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2020: Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene, PhD Thesis
2020: And the Crowd Goes Wild - HLF funded publication and film, B-Side. Portland
2020: Marginalia: Performance Lecture; Unbounded talk, Porthmeor Studios. St Ives
2020: Ruins paper, Theorem Publication, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin. Cambridge
2020: Vertex+Reflex paper, Hybrid Labs Publication, Aalto University. Helsinki, Finland
2019-20: Artist in Residence: National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth
2019: Vertex+Reflex paper, University of Aalto Hybrid Labs Publication, Finland
2018: Pattern, Open Theatre Practice, Dublin, Eire. Funded by Arts Council Ireland
2018: Exeter Phoenix artist talk. Exeter
2018: Ingenious Soil screening/talk and soil workshop, Being Human Festival. Exeter
2018: Poetic Places Workshop, Being Human. University of Exeter
2018: Assistant Producer, Take A Part Social Making Symposium
2018: Vertex+Reflex paper presented, Hybrid Labs, University of Aalto. Helsinki, Finland
 
with STILL MOVING
AWARDS/ GRANTS/ COMMISSIONS
2024: Everyone You're Looking At Is Also You, Plymouth Art Weekender Commission, Old Town Street, Plymouth
2023: Commissioned by Plymouth Culture with Historic England, Love is the Highest Economy of Life Installation, Plymouth
2022: When Land Becomes Soil, Science New Wave Award, Warner Media USA
2022: Pharmakon, Permanent sculpture commission, MRC CMM University of Exeter
2022: Community Light sculptures, Plymouth Culture commission
2021: NO NEW WORLDS, COP26, Glasgow, Greenpeace International grant
2021: COP26 Interventions, Glasgow, National Lottery Funding grant
2020: Photographic series Touch for The Box State of Emergency commission
2018: Plymouth Culture Arts grant for Speedwell, a Mayflower 400 commission
2018: Arts Council England grant for Speedwell, a Mayflower 400 commission

INSTALLATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
2024: Everyone That You're Looking At Is Also You Installation, Plymouth
2023: Love is the Highest Economy of Life Installation, Plymouth
2023: Exhibition April-May, In-tuition at The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington
2023: Still Moving Archive Room, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2022: Pharmakon, Permanent sculpture installed at University of Exeter
2022: Worldling, film on exhibition in Foto Forum, Bolzano, Italy
2022: Worlding, film screened at Cast, Cornwall
2022: LOVE IS THE HIGHEST ECONOMY, installation at Exeter Phoenix
2021: COP intervention LOSS + DAMAGE, COP26, Glasgow
2021: NO NEW WORLDS, Graving Docks, Glasgow
2021: TO BE HEARD. Anne’s Garden, G7 Installation, Carbis Bay
2020: hold me beside you, installation Plymouth Art Weekender
2020: Speedwell: NO NEW WORLDS, Mount Batten breakwater, Plymouth
CONTACT: [email protected]
  • projects
    • BOGWITCHES
    • Not a (Field)Guide to the Future
    • Flock Stones
    • Bounders
    • Cuckoo
    • Hemicircle/Encircle
    • Theatre of Ruins
    • Otolith
    • and the crowd goes wild...
    • Marginalia
    • Vertex + Reflex
    • Crazywell
    • Not to be taken
    • Lacuna: Colour of Distance
    • Walking the Line - Plymouth Breakwater
    • Through a glass, darkly
  • exhibitions/other