About

Hope Vassall is a British visual artist based in Bristol, who has recently graduated from Brighton University’s (BA) photography course. Since she began studying photography in 2014, she has completed a specialised two-year course in Devon and achieved an Extended Diploma from the Plymouth College of Art. Hope mainly works within the digital photographic medium, exploring a range of genres but specialising in creative portraiture. Her past imagery has been greatly influenced by varying narratives such as local Dartmoor folklore, Greek Mythology and classic Grimm Brothers tales.

Indagation (2022) was the first exhibition Hope had displayed her work at, alongside fellow artists. This was in collaboration with Brighton University.

Since then she presented her final project Wormfood (2023) at Brighton University’s Summer show, in addition to participating at  Free Range in London. This was in collaboration with The Truman Brewery, a project aimed towards recent graduates.

Hope’s most recent body of work, ‘Blue for boys, pink for girls’ (2023), was created to explore gender stereotypes and the underlying sexism in children’s toys. The project was a satire exaggeration of gender differences, displayed as traditional household obligations. Hope produced 12 final images, displaying members of a nuclear family as if they were doll characters, still in their packaging.