Alexis Pope

… is a British artist, born and raised in London. His father was from Grenada, his mother from England. London was a place seething with racism during his childhood, a subject that is not often spoken about. Due to the efforts of his parents and in particular of his father who had joined the RAF during WWII and then had subsequently pursued a carrier as a Jazz pianist in London, Alexis Pope was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music, where he eventually on graduation won the Macfaren Gold Medal for solo piano. Other prizes and awards include the Elena Gerhardt prize for accompaniment (adjudicated by Gerald Moore), the Schinn Fellowship, the Leverhulme Scholarship, as well as the British Council's Chopin Stipendium for advanced studies at The Warsaw Conservatoire. Alexis Pope took part in the Queen Elizabeth competition in Brussels, and the Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

Pope has been writing poetry, composing, and creating visual art from an early age.His works include three poetry anthologies, numerous compositions (two operas, piano pieces, chambe rmusic & songs etc.) as well as numerous art works.

His influences include psychoanalysis, marxism, and improvisation, and the main focus in his work lies with the issues of human rights, sexism and racism as well as philosophical and mythological concerns relating to humanity and the environment.. His memories of the workshops he gave in Ramallah, Palestine 2008 to commerate 100 years of the Palestinian state remain warm and vivid. He has had exhibitions in England, Germany and Switzerland, and has performed on the BBC and Deutschland Radio. His books are published on Amazon. For several years he was a dozent at the HDK in Berlin. His work also includes video and film. The film “Suma Genji” which he wrote and directed, and produced together with videographer Furuya Takeshi deals with a man who has been ostracised from society. 

Influences include ~ Lucian Freud, Sappho, Boulez, Mahler, Nietzsche, Derrida, Heidegger, Ovid, Joyce, Marx, Tacitus, Pasolini, Ingmar Bergman, Gomrich, Jakob Böhme, John Donne, Kirkegaard, Julian of Norwich, & Aimé Césaire.