Rosa Hope

Rosa S. Hope (1902, Manchester, England - 1972, Kokstad, South Africa), was an English painter who visited South Africa in 1935 and stayed.

After attending the Manchester High School For Girls, she received her training at the Slade School of Art in London and in 1926 won the "Prix de Rome" for her etching "The Adoration of the Shepherds", which was subsequently shown at the Royal Academy. At this time she was living at 40 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, N.W, the same house where Mark Rutherford, the novelist, lived in 1852. When she visited South Africa in 1935, a former teacher at the Slade School, Professor John Wheatley, offered her a teaching post at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She founded the school's printmaking and engraving department. In 1938 she accepted the post of Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where she remained until 1957. From here she made frequent painting trips to the Drakensberg and Transkei. The Centre for Visual Art at the University of Natal has been entrusted with a donation of her works. Rosa Hope designed the tile of tableau of the Great Trek Centenary in the Irene Post Office in 1939. She exhibited with the South African Society of Artists (SASA) until 1942.

External links

* [http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/ Manchester High School For Girls]
* [http://sahistory.org.za/pages/artsmediaculture/gallery/sa-society-of-artists/index.htm South African Society of Artists]
* [http://www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/ Michaelis School of Fine Art]