Artist Statement

Hope Dunlop-Lynn is a contemporary fine artist making large-scale oil paintings. Graduating from her BA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2026, she uses anthropomorphism as a subject to explore modern society. Hope explores the natural balance between our public and private, intimate lives, conveying the intertwining of reality and fantasy in her work.

Inspired by both Renaissance and Surrealist painting, the artist builds worlds which become a comment on the human and animal lived experience. The artist explores the many hardships and fortunes humanity lives with, both as individuals and as a society. Hope is seeking to unravel within her work what it means to be a person navigating life in modern day, highlighting the love, connection and obstacles we all face. She focuses on balancing absurdity, dark humour, reality and symbolism. The artist depicts humans as animals to allow for symbolism to appear throughout the work and positions her subjects within both natural and artificial environments.

The paintings made by Hope act as both stand alone and collaborative pieces, with each work telling its own story whilst also sitting within the same larger world she is creating, which absurdly mirrors reality.