Pope. L - An artist

Pope.L

Born in 1955 Pope is a visual artist best known for his work in performance art and interventionist public art. His work stimulated conversation — through a flow of ideas, images and experiences.

Pope.L's art focuses on issues of consumption, social class, and masculinity as they relate to race. He is quoted as saying of his own work: “I am a fisherman of social absurdity, if you will… My focus is to politicise disenfranchisement, to make it neut, to reinvent what’s beneath us, to remind us where we all come from.”

In his Foundation for contemporary art Fellowship bio, he writes:

"Like the African shaman who chews his pepper seeds and spits seven times into the air, I believe art re-ritualizes the everyday to reveal something fresh about our lives. This revelation is a vitality and it is a power to change the world.".