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Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK, working with experimental and documentary-based modes. Their work wrestles with the choices undertaken when we visualise racialised violence, attempting to ask how we might live in a world and relate to one another with care whilst amongst and against systems of power and control. Films move across archival, 16mm and digital practices. A particular focus is given to re-entangling the supposedly disparate landscapes of Jamaica and the North of England, through an attention to labour migration, diasporic longing and resource extraction.

Hope’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2025). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Looking Back (Being and Memory) at Arnolfini, Bristol, Bugs and Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography by the Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Serpentine Galleries. Hope was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023 and shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2025. They are an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

2022-2025 - Practice-based PhD in Film, CREAM, The University of Westminster, Quintin Hogg Trust Scholarship.

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Recent/Forthcoming

Artist-in-residence with Alchemy Film and Arts, Hawick, Scotland - Summer 2026

John Hansard Gallery - Summer 2026

Project a Black Planet, Film Season at the Barbican - Summer 2026

Eccles Fellowship with Ana Edwards, The British Library, London - August-September 2026

Four Nations International Fund with Ana Edwards and Milo Clenshaw - Autumn 2026