https://hopestrickland.com Hope Pearl Strickland Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:31:59 +0000 https://hopestrickland.com en https://hopestrickland.com/a-river-holds-a-perfect-memory-1 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:31:59 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/a-river-holds-a-perfect-memory-1 <img width="1825" height="2513" width_o="1825" height_o="2513" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea2359af5a7048da234cdf32b79901338d4722292172002febab5d1376915d26/ARHAPM-Poster-A4---Print-Ready.jpg" data-mid="249013151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea2359af5a7048da234cdf32b79901338d4722292172002febab5d1376915d26/ARHAPM-Poster-A4---Print-Ready.jpg" /> a river holds a perfect memory (2024) 17minutes 18seconds16mm, archival, LIDAR commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Touchstones, Rochdale with support from HOME, Manchestersupported using public funding from Arts Council England a river holds a perfect memory meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, through leisure activities such as rafting on the Martha Brae River and a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. In the UK, archival footage tracks industrial impact upon the landscape in Northern England - as water becomes a resource and a reservoir is constructed in Rochdale. https://hopestrickland.com/Holdings-1 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:46:57 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/Holdings-1 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5b1ab1339e204a6249abe5ee1525918e71a937cd0287b3fb2683410ee85812/Holdings-Still---Perched-Bird.jpg" data-mid="202835733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5b1ab1339e204a6249abe5ee1525918e71a937cd0287b3fb2683410ee85812/Holdings-Still---Perched-Bird.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66f059c599b9ece835eaaf92656b681842dde7fcb8a7adf1c6c54406077b110d/Holdings-Still---Clipped-Bird.jpg" data-mid="202835742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66f059c599b9ece835eaaf92656b681842dde7fcb8a7adf1c6c54406077b110d/Holdings-Still---Clipped-Bird.jpg" /> Holdings (2023) 1minute 48seconds 16mm, archival commissioned by Open City Documentary Film Festival for the 2023 festival trailer Holdings explores our relationship with birds as objects to be held and beings to be cared for. Practices that may at first appear violent, yet are rooted in care; practices that sustain care in the aftermath of brutality. Visuals balance bird ringing in Elthorne Park, specimens from the Philip Henry Gosse collection at Liverpool World Museum and archival footage. Shot on 16mm. https://hopestrickland.com/I-ll-Be-Back-1 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:46:58 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/I-ll-Be-Back-1 <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2313ce51932359eb36f0fa12480b9c435d2274e301e2b6c25c351ffab0005b16/Hope-Pearl-Strickland-at-Arnolfini-2025.-Photo-by-Lisa-Whiting-Photography-for-Arnolfini-54.jpg" data-mid="233245730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2313ce51932359eb36f0fa12480b9c435d2274e301e2b6c25c351ffab0005b16/Hope-Pearl-Strickland-at-Arnolfini-2025.-Photo-by-Lisa-Whiting-Photography-for-Arnolfini-54.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44300dde88e648f69fb078af7b4167ec251b605dfe1a8d1607cbf499ea7da849/Hope-Pearl-Strickland-at-Arnolfini-2025.-Photo-by-Lisa-Whiting-Photography-for-Arnolfini-51.jpg" data-mid="233245729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44300dde88e648f69fb078af7b4167ec251b605dfe1a8d1607cbf499ea7da849/Hope-Pearl-Strickland-at-Arnolfini-2025.-Photo-by-Lisa-Whiting-Photography-for-Arnolfini-51.jpg" /> I’ll Be Back! (2022) 10minutes 54seconds Digital, 16mm, archival Commissioned by FACT Liverpool with public funding from Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council. Presented in collaboration with Hervisions, supported by The Granada Foundation. I’ll Be Back! begins and ends with the story of the rebel maroon Francois Mackandal. In 1758, Mackandal was condemned to be burned at the stake, not only for his crimes but for his radical powers of metamorphosis.Filmed in archives and museums across the UK, I’ll Be Back! explores a series of collections holding objects of colonial violence. Amongst these is a book containing a diagram of a slave ship, a key document in the abolitionist movement widely published for its shocking nature, and a collection of insects gathered in Sierra Leone by a colonial topographer mapping borders and defining British and French territory in West Africa. Shifting across digital, 16mm and archival formats, the film interrogates institutional collecting practices and reconsiders the distances between myth, history and machinations of power. https://hopestrickland.com/If-I-could-name-you-1 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:46:58 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/If-I-could-name-you-1 <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5739da5f55ed4b604283a5fa57e3a03aa620b4ed8cc8b401add2eb537b8f230c/IICNYM---Petal.jpg" data-mid="202850984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5739da5f55ed4b604283a5fa57e3a03aa620b4ed8cc8b401add2eb537b8f230c/IICNYM---Petal.jpg" /><img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f853ecd46398c991f1fd62134f062788eac2af1e1b2174d5568e5926b0078c40/IICNYM---Colonial.jpg" data-mid="202850983" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f853ecd46398c991f1fd62134f062788eac2af1e1b2174d5568e5926b0078c40/IICNYM---Colonial.jpg" /><img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e51715b16d68e66a3c7f5c319c5758220c476b8b2997febb08ec485c6d1b422/IICNYM-Shadow-play.jpg" data-mid="202850987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e51715b16d68e66a3c7f5c319c5758220c476b8b2997febb08ec485c6d1b422/IICNYM-Shadow-play.jpg" /> If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever) (2021) 7minutes 58secondsDigital, archival&nbsp; PUSH Festival Artist Film Commission, HOME, Manchester Cotton is a plant with connotations that far surpass its delicate white flowers, bringing to mind issues of enforced labour, of exploitation and of colonialism. Yet the very crop for which creole women were forced into labour, offered a form of herbal resistance: cotton root bark could be used as birth control. Herbal knowledge carefully gathered and held, was used amongst the women to defy a lineage of servitude. Beneath the inherent violence of the slave economic system, we find quiet resistance and moments of deep, loving rebellion. https://hopestrickland.com/Home-Soon-Come-1 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:16:59 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/Home-Soon-Come-1 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa283e1239e448af48451f709b7435a153dcd94bc78edf08955c428d9dd1a41c/HSC---Living-Room.jpg" data-mid="202851652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa283e1239e448af48451f709b7435a153dcd94bc78edf08955c428d9dd1a41c/HSC---Living-Room.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e199dfd696644ca29dc1ed441e14de537c1e67805d2866e142108dd228459669/HSC---Manley-eating.jpg" data-mid="202851653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e199dfd696644ca29dc1ed441e14de537c1e67805d2866e142108dd228459669/HSC---Manley-eating.jpg" /> Home Soon Come (2020) 20minutes 10seconds Digital, archival Development support from HOME, Manchester and La Junqueira Residency, Lisbon A documentary with the elderly Caribbean community in South Manchester with scenes shot at the African-Caribbean Care Group (ACCG) and interviews in family homes. Digital footage is edited with archival footage from a 1926 travelogue ‘Christmas around the Caribbean Sea’, to explore slowness, diasporic movements, memory-placing through domestic objects. https://hopestrickland.com/Front-page Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:46:59 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/Front-page <img width="3360" height="2100" width_o="3360" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fdc57af57e7c2647053e442ed7cff4754bf92719b72c6842529de451d050cbf/Blue-bt60.png" data-mid="202852281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fdc57af57e7c2647053e442ed7cff4754bf92719b72c6842529de451d050cbf/Blue-bt60.png" /> https://hopestrickland.com/Information Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:47:00 +0000 Hope Pearl Strickland https://hopestrickland.com/Information rhstricklandspence@gmail.com 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&nbsp;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. 2022-2026 - Practice-based PhD in Film, CREAM, The University of Westminster, Quintin Hogg Trust Scholarship. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; please email for a full CV&nbsp; 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 Sonsbeek 2026 - Arnhem, Holland - August 2026 Eccles Fellowship with Ana Edwards, The British Library, London - Autumn 2026 Four Nations International Fund with Ana Edwards and Milo Clenshaw - Autumn 2026