Laura Hope is a figurative artist based in Oxfordshire. She studied Illustration at University before working as a Memorial Artist, hand etching portraits onto gravestones. Drawing is her one true love.
Photography by Barbara Asboth
EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS
2024
Shortlisted - Derwent Art Prize
Longlisted - Aesthetica Art Prize
Selected for 50x50 by the Auction Collective
A Room Of One’s Own - Irving Gallery, Oxford
Ordeal by Innocence - Lynrace Popina, Oxford
2023
Winner - NG Art Creative Residency (Wells Contemporary)
Shortlisted - Jackson’s Painting Prize
Longlisted - Women in Art Prize
Honourable Mention - Arthouse Z ‘Emerging Artist Prize’
Art On A Postcard - Winter Auction (selected by Verity Babbs)
Rising Artists, Jackson’s Painting Prize - Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London
Wells Art Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, Wells
Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London
Commissioned by the Folio Society - Agatha Christie’s Ordeal By Innocence
2022
Winner - de Laszlo Foundation Award for Excellence
Longlisted - Jackson’s Painting Prize
Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London
Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London
Tendencies in Painting - London Paint Club (online)
Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries, London
Small Works Winter Show - Spring Cheltenham