Artist talk: Hope Strickland

Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Strickland’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2024). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Arnolfini, Bristol; Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries, London. Her work has been commissioned by organisations across the UK including FACT, Liverpool, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale and Film and Video Umbrella. She has presented work at various academic conferences, including the Ruskin School of Art (2021), The University of Birmingham (2024). Strickland was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023. She is nominated for this year’s Jarman Award (2025).