About Monica
Monica Popham (1997) is a Gibraltarian landscape artist based in London whose work explores the interplay of light and architecture across Mediterranean spaces. In 2024, Popham won Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year which led to a commission for the London Science Museum, where her piece now forms part of their permanent collection. The work captured the renewable energy landscape of Orkney through her distinctive language of light and form. Her paintings are also held in the Soho House Collection in their new Barcelona House and the Gibraltar Government Art Collection through her many successes from Gibraltar based art competitions.
In 2024, she independently released a body of work which comprised of 20 small paintings, highlighting the feel and emotion in Gibraltarian architecture. The collection impressively sold out in only 12 hours, emphasising the connection Monica has been able to create between her work and followers.
Exhibitions
2025 - Almenara Art Prize Online Exhibition
2025 - 52nd and 53rd International Art Competition, Gibraltar
2025 - A Tale of Two Cities, Group Exhibition, Tangier, Morocco
2024 - Southern Nature Art Exhibition, Rookesbury Park, Wickham
2024 - Art of Buckler’s Hard Exhibition, New Forest
2022 - Gibraltar: Our Sacred Earth, Our Sense of Place ,Bermondsey Project Space ,London,
2022 - 49th International Art Competition, Gibraltar
2021 - Loughborough University, ‘Design, Creative Arts and Architecture Degree Show’, Loughborough
2021 - 48th International Art Competition, Gibraltar
2021 - 47th International Art Competition, Gibraltar
2021 - Alwani Summer Exhibition, Gibraltar
Awards
2024 - Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Winner
2022 - Our Gibraltar, Ministry of Culture Award Winner
2021 - The Jacobo Azagury Prize, Gibraltar International Exhibition
2021- ‘One to Watch’, Design and Creative Arts Enterprise Awards
2021- Photography Award, Our Gibraltar Exhibition
2020- 3rd Prize, The Gibraltar Heritage Trust Annual Painting Competition
Collections
The Soho House Collection, 2025
The Science Museum, London, 2024
The Gibraltar Cultural Services Art Collection, 2016-2022
