Artist • Sculpture / ceramics / print • Based in Manchester, UK

www.jeffreyknopf.co.uk • instagram.com/@jeffrey_knopf • jeffreyknopf@hotmail.com

Statement

My work begins with objects—found, made, or reimagined—and the stories they carry. Across sculpture, ceramics, and print, I build installations that read like fragments from a misremembered collection: part display, part evidence. The museum operates as a metaphor for how meaning is stored and staged. I use shifts in scale, material, and context to make familiar things behave strangely, inviting a slower, speculative way of looking.

Selected Exhibitions

2025

  • Fractured Familiar, 50MV, Liverpool (cur. Jeffrey Knopf & Luke Skiffington)

  • Nothing Remained Unchanged but the Clouds, Rogue Gallery & Project Space, Manchester (Alan Ward & Jeffrey Knopf)

2024

  • 40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now?, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (cur. Matthew Pendergast & Stephanie Fletcher)

2023

  • The Metaphorical Museum and a return to The Underworld, Basement Arts Project, Leeds

2022

  • Underworld, Mirabel Street Gallery, Manchester

 Education & Training

  • MA Contemporary Fine Art, University of Salford — 2019–2021

  • BA (Hons) 3D Design, Ceramics & Glass, Leicester De Montford Polytechnic

  • HND 3D Design & Ceramics, Swansea Institute of HE

  • HNC Public Art, Barnet College, London

  • OND Multidisciplinary Art & Design, Stockport College

Awards, Grants & Residencies

  • AA2A Artist in Residence, University of Chester — 2022

  • Salford Scholars, Scholarship awarded by Salford University art collection and Castlefield gallery Manchester  - 2021

Collections

·      Salford University Art Collection

Curating & Collaboration

  • Curator (with Luke Skiffington): Fractured Familiar, 50MV, Liverpool — 2025

  • Collaborations: Allan Ward (Rogue Gallery & Project Space, Manchester; Grandpré & Abbaye de Chéhéry, France) — 2025; Venture Arts CoLab (with James Desser)

Exhibitions (Additional)

Collaborations
2025 Nothing Remained Unchanged but the Clouds 2, Grandpré & Abbaye de Chéhéry, France (with Alan Ward)
2024 Venture Arts CoLab Series, Venture Arts, Manchester (with James Desser)
2024 Twelve Thousand, Manchester (with Nicola Ellis)
2022 Like a bull in a China Shop, Gallery Frank, Littleborough (with Angela Tait)

Group exhibitions
2025 Socially Distanced, Wellington Yard, Liverpool (cur. Luke Skiffington) • Dream Life, Venture Arts CoLab Projects, The Art House, Worcester (cur. Division of Labour)
2024 All That Glitters, UBICUA Gallery, London (cur. Belinda Worsley) • The Omnipotence of Dream, Salford Art Gallery & Museum (cur. David Hancock) • Vernacular Basement Arts Goes to Sluice Biennial 2024, Colchester
2023 Objects, Axel Obiger, Berlin (cur. David Hancock) • Mute, UBICUA Gallery, London (cur. Nicky Hirst) • Figurine, 50MV, Liverpool (cur. Luke Skiffington) • Bankley Exchanges #3, Bankley Studios + Gallery, Manchester (cur. Will Marshall) • Plot, Basement Arts Project (stand), Athens • Salford Scholars 10 Year Celebration, The Manchester Contemporary / Castlefield Gallery / University of Salford Art Collection 2022 Things Fall Apart, Paradise Works Gallery, Salford (cur. Hilary Jacks) • Made it, Rogue Studios Gallery, Manchester (cur. Short Supply) • We are all going to die, The Existential House, Birkenhead (cur. Stephen Sheehan) • Air Open, AIR Gallery, Altrincham

Press & Publications