Phoebe Cope is an Irish painter living in Scotland. She has exhibited  in the Royal Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Scottish Academy Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Lynn Painters Stainers and the Ruth Borchard Show. Works are in the Office of Public works, The Bank of Ireland and private collections in Ireland, the UK and beyond.

Curriculum Vitae

Education 

  Hons Degree, The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, St. Anne's College, Oxford University

Postgraduate Diploma, The Royal Drawing School, London. Bursary Student

Irish Leaving Certificate, Gaelcholaiste Cheatharlach, Carlow

Lycee J.H. Fabre, Carpentras, Provence

Haumea program in Ecological Literacy with Cathy FitzGerald & Nikos Patedakis

 Selected Exhibitions & Awards

2022 upcoming solo show at Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum

2021 Twelve paintings, The Tack Room Shankill Castle, during Kilkenny Arts Week
2018 Compass & Gerber Gallery

2018 Royal Hibernian Academy Summer Show
2018 Solo Show Biggar & Upper Clydesdale  Museum

2017 Ruth Borchard Exhibition of Self Portraits, Piano Nobile Gallery Kings Place London until Sept 22nd

2016 Royal Hibernian Academy Summer show, V&A plaster Court painting selected

2016 Lynn Painter Prize exhibition London,  'Pignano Cherry Tree' 

2016 Gordon W Smith Painting Award exhibition, Dovehouse Gallery Edinburgh, 'Woodpiles beneath Snow'

2015 Maverick Projects Peckham,  Signal Failure II group show

2014 Moritz-Heyman Residency Award in March, Pignano,  Italy

2014 & in 2012  RSPP, self-portrait painting and drawing  selected 

2014 Cill Rialaig Project Award in June, Ballinaskelligs, Kerry, Ireland 

2014 & 2015 Kilkenny Arts Festival in August  at Shankill

2014 Origin Gallery Dublin,  2 man show 

2013 Turner's House Twickenham, group show June

2013 October group show, The Royal Courts of Justice

2012  Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, drawing selected

2012 City of London School artist-in-residence and end of year exhibition with Mary Millner

2012 Touring show USA, Irish Heritage Centre in Chicago & Jacques Lami in Dallas

2012 & in 2013 Royal Scottish Academy Open Edinburgh, paintings selected

2011 3 month teaching residency at the International Institute of Fine Art Delhi 

2011 Royal Hibernian Academy painting selected

2011 Van Cleef & Arpel mural commission of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg May

2010  Royal Hibernian Academy, sculpture selected

2010 Solomon Gallery Dublin, group show

2010 C4RD Centre for Recent Drawing group show, Kilkenny Arts Festival

2007-2009 Machin Art Foundation artist-in-residence, Staffordshire & 4 Sydney Close Studios 

2009 Thomas Williams Gallery London, solo show

2008 Independants Liverpool Biennale group show, curated by Projection Gallery

2008 Hackney WickeD Festival group show at Mission Arts Club

2008 Inaugural show of Centre for Recent Drawing C4RD,  Highbury & Islington

2008 Machin Art Foundation artist- in-residence, Staffs, with an end of year show

2007 Grizedale Project Cumbria, residency award  July

2007 Hinterland show, Thomas Williams Fine Art, London

2006 Cill Rialaig Project Ballinaskelligs, residency award

2006 Kilcock Gallery Dublin, solo show

2005 painting selected for Royal Academy Summer show

2005  & in  2006 Princes Drawing School end of year Prize Award

2004 Ruskin Degree Show mural purchased for Bank of Ireland art collection, and touring exhibition

2003 Teaching at Gaelscoil Eoghain Ui Thuaraisc, Carlow

2002 Ruskin School of Art Degree show in June

2001 M.O.L.T. St. Anne's College, Oxford, solo show

1997 & in 1998  Slogadh painting 1st prizes twice, exhibitions in the Oireachtas in Dublin

Press

1997 The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne 

2007 The Financial Times, ' An Ardent Accumulator' on art collection of David Linley

2010 Art-Sleuth by Lucy Pallot

2010  Mac magazine by Dorothy Feaver

2011 Nerve Magazine by Sandra Gibson

2012 '22-26', Critic's Choice,The Financial Times by Jackie Wullschlager

2016 Gordon W Smith Award, Scotsman on Sunday 

2018 Claire Henry, http://clarehenry-artjournal.blogspot.com/2018/05/phoebe-cope-biggar-upper-clydesdale.html

2021 Hazelpress, https://hazelpress.co.uk/2021/04/sing-and-louder-sing/