Sara Pope

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SARA POPE

Contemporary Artist

Sara Pope is well known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from Haute Couture fashion and beauty trends, she captures the glamour and power conveyed by the lips and mouth, raising questions of ideals of beauty and femininity.

Sara Pope was born in Stoke-On-Trent and left school to study a degree in mathematics. After completing her degree, Sara realised that she could no longer ignore her creative side. She subsequently moved to Barcelona where she completed a course in graphic design, returning to the UK to work in magazines as a designer and art director. After some years working in media, her passion for shoe design led to her to set up a business customising shoes. She was approached by avant garde fashion designer Robert Cary Williams to design a collection of shoes for his London Fashion week show, the success of which inspired her to study a one year footwear Diploma at the London College of Fashion. She has since worked as a shoe designer for many high end brands, including Paul Smith and Lacoste, as well as freelance catwalk projects for brands such as Baby Phat, Gharani Strok and consultancy work for Jemima Vine (brand championed by Pippa Middleton).

Sara Pope’s early commercial work, in fashion, beauty and media proved to be the inspiration for her art. Working in oils and acrylic, she makes use of bold, attractive colours with high shine gloss. Her painting style imitates the slickness of advertising, whilst provocatively subverting its themes. Sara is best known for her seductive paintings of bold, colourful, voluptuous lips. She aims to capture the glamour and sexual power conveyed by a pair of lips. All her paintings from this series start with a photographic shoot, a model and some make up. Exploring the ideas of communication, she asks the model, to think of emotions, love, happiness or flirtation, which she captures photographically. The painting process for these Lip portraits involves several thin layers of oil, being overlaid over each other to create a translucent, glass like quality. Hyper realism has become a major theme in her lips painting. Sara is also known for her portraits, most notably having a portrait of the Pope accepted into the Vatican collection. Sara works in series’ or ‘collections’, painting a body of work with common stylistic elements and colour palette, as with seasonal collections in fashion.

Sara Pope’s work is rapidly gaining attention, and she currently exhibits with several galleries in the UK and abroad. Solo shows include, in 2014 her first international show in Florence. While in Italy she delivered her original portrait of Pope Francis to the Vatican as it was accepted into the collection, and was interviewed on Sky News, BBC News, BBC Radio and various newspapers worldwide.

In 2015 she had a solo show at the Connings by Gallery in Fitzrovia, central London, in collaboration with the major American beauty brand BareMinerals. This same year she was also asked by Saatchi&Saatchi to show in their exhibition ‘There’s a Good Girl’.

2016 began with shows in London at Lights of Soho and Lacey Gallery. Plus being commissioned to paint a piece based on the life story of Jenny Sealey MBE, creative director at Graeae Theatre. This piece is part of a group show with Sir Peter Blake at the Guardian Newspaper.

Sara Pope

New Art

SARA POPE

Contemporary Artist

Psycho Candy

‘PSYCHO CANDY’ IS AN ORIGINAL BY POP ART ARTIST, SARA POPE

Happiness Is Expensive

‘HAPPINESS IS EXPESIVE’ IS AN ORIGINAL ON CANVAS BY ARTIST, JAMES MCQUEEN

Ebony & The Swans

‘EBONY & THE SWANS’ IS A HAND PAINTED ETCHING ON PAPER BY FIGURATIVE ARTIST, ROSIE EMERSON

Aria I

‘ARIA I’ IS A LIMITED EDITION ETCHING ON PAPER BY FIGURATIVE ARTIST, ROSIE EMERSON

Nimbus

‘NIMBUS’ IS AN ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED STORY BOX BU CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, CLAIRE NEWMAN WILLIAMS

Busy Doing Nothing

‘BUSY DOING NOTHING’ IS AN ORIGINAL ON CANVAS BY JAMES MCQUEEN

The Gathering

THE GATHERING’ IS AN ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED STORY BOX BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, CLAIRE NEWMAN WILLIAMS

Photobooth

‘PHOTOBOOTH’ IS AN ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED STORY BOX BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, CLAIRE NEWMAN WILLIAMS

After Tea, Before The Storm

‘AFTER TEA, BEFORE THE STORM’ IS AN ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED STORY BOX BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, CLAIRE NEWMAN WILLIAMS

Klaatu

‘KLAATU’ IS AN ORIGINAL ON BOARD BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Yellow Rebel

‘YELLOW REBEL’ IS A UNIQUE RESIN SCULPTURE BY VOCALIAST OF THE PRODIGY & ARTIST, MAXIM, ALSO KNOWN AS MM

Freedom Rebel

‘FREEDOM REBEL’ IS A UNIQUE RESIN SCULPTURE BY THE VOCALIST OF THE PRODIGY & ARTIST, MAXIM, ALSO KNOWN AS MM

Green Rebel

‘GREEN REBEL’ IS A UNIQUE RESIN SCULPTURE BY THE VOCALIST OF THE PRODIGY & ARTIST, MAXIM, ALSO KNOW AS MM

White Rebel

‘WHITE REBEL’ IS A UNIQUE RESIN SCULPTURE BY THE VOCALIST OF THE PRODIGY & ARTIST, MASIM, ALSO KNOW AS MM

Purple Rebel

‘PURPLE REBEL’ IS A UNIQUE RESIN SCULPTURE BY THE VOCALIST OF THE PRODIGY & ARTIST, MAXIM, ALSO KNOWN AS MM

Blackout

‘BLACKOUT’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Full Moon III

‘FULL MOON III’ IS A LIMITED EDITION MONO PRINT BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, DAN BALDWIN

Full Moon II

‘FULL MOON II’ IS A LIMITED EDITION MONO PRINT BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, DAN BALDWIN

Full Moon I

‘FULL MOON I’ IS A LIMITED EDITION MONO PRINT BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, DAN BALDWIN

Shooting Craps

‘SHOOTING CRAPS’ IS A LIMITED EDITION BY POP ART ARTIST, BRAD FAINE

Wise Man

‘WISE MAN’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Window

‘WINDOW’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Two4One

‘TWO4ONE’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Time 20

‘TIME 20’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

The Flow of Time

‘THE FLOW OF TIME’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

The Dream

‘THE DREAM’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Stillman Christopher

‘STILLMAN CHRISTOPHER’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Squiggles & Loops

‘SQUIGGLES & LOOPS’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Senses

‘SENSES’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Portrait

‘PORTRAIT’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Plopsland

‘PLOPSLAND’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Pills

‘PILLS’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Pain

‘PAIN’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Ok

‘OK’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Memory

‘MEMORY’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

I

‘I’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Insomnia

‘INSOMNIA’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK

Hug

‘HUG’ IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, SIMON KIRK