Sculptor and maker of constructions, born in Cornwall. He studied at Bath Academy of Art, 1959–62, obtaining a Royal Netherlands Government Scholarship in the latter year, enabling him to study at Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague, 1962–3. Pope went on to teach at University of Reading from 1968 and at Chelsea School of Art from 1975. He was interested in the rules of perspective and their modification and extending his experience of space, to which end he invented experimental spectacles which altered the way we see. His work was included in Axiom Gallery’s Constructions ’66 show in 1966, and three years later he showed in John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool. Pope gained Arts Council Awards in 1974 and 1976 and a British Council Award in 1977.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)