WHO WE ARE

PopeCullen is a collaboration between artists Simon Pope & Sarah Cullen that sometimes involves our children too. We have been working together since 2008, and our recent work incorporates our common interests in participatory approaches to art, intergenerational collaboration, and in “ecological thinking”. This means that  we aim to acknowledge the importance of a wide-range of social relationships in our art practice, such as those in our family life with our children, and in the new kinships and communities that our work produces for us and for others. Individually our work encompasses participatory research-creation approaches to “more than human” forms of community (Pope) and the inclusion of children and caregivers in the production of art and craft (Cullen).

Recently, we have focused on developing the ecological aspects of our work – in the sense of being attuned to our relationships with other species, other people, and ourselves as a family. Our work has become increasingly community-focused, and we are concerned that it is meaningful and accessible to those who take part with us in our projects. Often, we create situations where new communities come into being, drawn together across otherwise sharp divides between class, age, and gender in particular – but also between people and Nature. We do this as a way to think about how art can help to produce communities that are composed of more than only humans, and about how to live together in diverse and hybrid communities.

Sarah Cullen

Simon Pope

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