Simon Pope is an artist and researcher based in Devon (UK) and Toronto (Canada). He works primarily through collaboration, and with universities and museums. His multi-disciplinary, participatory, practice-led, research-based projects focus on the politics of more-than-human social worlds, and the dynamic relationships of people, artefacts and place.
He was a founding member of the net.art group I/O/D (1992-2000), and a NESTA fellow researching walking and contemporary art practice (2002-5). His work has been presented internationally including at the Whitney Museum (USA) and ZKM (Austria); he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Fine Art (2003).
He was a Reader at Cardiff School of Art & Design (2005-10), holds a DPhil from the Ruskin School of Art (University of Oxford), and supervises PhD candidates for Transart Institute (USA) and Liverpool John Moores University (UK). He is Research Associate at the University of Exeter, where he collaborates with anthropologist Prof. Harry G. West on practice-led projects exploring the mobile relationships of ‘people product, and place’ in cidermaking. His most recent collaboration, with Dr. John Hammersley at University of Leeds (2025-), traces the social and material relationships of Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman 1957-8. He is an Eccles Fellow at the British Library.
