Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie met while studying at Edinburgh College of Art and have collaborated as artists and film-makers since 1995. Their work deals with histories and futures, real and imagined, often using improvisational and social tools to generate and distribute their ideas.
Their multi-disciplinary organisation Somewhere produces ambitious public realm projects in diverse media - latterly designing the award-winning public garden Abbey Gardens in London and curating the programme of the Floating Cinema. In their films such as Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future (2005) and most recently Jaywick Escapes (2012) Pope and Guthrie illuminate off-radar places and communities with empathy and humour.
MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art 1991 – 1993
BA Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art 1987 – 1991
MA Printmaking, Chelsea school of art and design 1991 – 1993
BA Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art 1987 – 1991
The Floating Cinema, lead artists and curators in collaboration with Up projects, London 2011 – present
Abbey Gardens, What Will The Harvest Be? Commissioned by London Borough of Newham 2009 – present
A Circle of Happiness, Jaywick Martello Tower 2009
Almanac, Public art commission for the redevelopment of Cinema City, Norwich 2007
Sometime Later, Commissioned by BBC & Arts Council England, 2006
Romantic Detachment,
Video work, group show, PS1, New York City & touring to Q in Derby, Folly in Lancaster & Chapter in Cardiff 2004
London Underground Platform for Art, Featured artists 2003
Live Culture, Curators/ exhibitors, video programme, Tate Modern, London 2003
TV Swansong,
Nationwide public art/ site-specific webcast project commissioning 8 artists
(artists / curators) 2002
Northern Arts Prize 2007
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