Full Name Louise Hopkins Nationality English | Name Louise Hopkins Role Artist | |
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Known for Art: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking Notable work Aurora 1996Songbook, 1998Wood, 2003Relief, 2005Red Rings 2008 Awards Creative Scotland Award, 2002 | ||
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Louise Hopkins (born in England, 1965) is a British contemporary artist and painter currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Presently, she is still developing her studio work and continues to exhibit on a regular basis.
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- Gwendolyn masin louise hopkins aleksandar madzar maurice ravel piano trio in a minor
- Cello Sonata in G Minor Op 19 I Lento Allegro moderato
- Work
- Solo exhibitions
- Commissions Projects and Residencies
- Awards
- Public collections
- References
She was born in Hertfordshire, England, graduating from Glasgow School of Art MFA Programme in 1994 after a two-year course. She also attended the University of Northumbria (formerly Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic) from 1985-1988, graduating from there with a B.A.(Hons) in 1988. Prior to that, she attended the Foundations Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic from 1984-1985. For a time, after graduating from Newcastle Polytechnic, she lived and worked in Australia, where she also exhibited.
Hopkins first gained recognition in Glasgow and London in 1996. After gaining her MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 1994, she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting prize in 1997.
In 2002, she received a Creative Scotland Award. She held her first retrospective exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery in 2005 and in 2007, she was one of six artists chosen to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. [1] In 2014, she exhibited at Linlithgow Burgh Halls as part of GENERATION-25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland.
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: I. Lento - Allegro moderato
Work
Louise Hopkins is known for rarely making work on blank surfaces, choosing instead to start with a material that is pre-existing, and usually pre-printed, either with specific imagery or more generic graphic information. From this she develops painted or drawn marks as a way of engaging and transforming the surface.
Found surfaces that Hopkins works onto include furnishing fabric, maps, sheet music, graph paper, photographs, pages from history books and from commercial catalogues.
"The artist has spoken of her interest in working on supports which contain information, often an image, and in turning that image into a painting by repainting and hence remaking it.""Louise Hopkins’s world is in an endless state of flux, becoming and adjustment. Meaning for her is never something to be merely established-through research, for example, or contemplation-but rather galvanised, sparked into a state of pulsing iteration and reiteration…In an indicative work, Untitled (011), 1998, she once crumpled a piece of white paper, the kind generally used to write or type or scribble or photocopy on. She acted not in anger or frustration but to make the paper more interesting, yet not less itself. To the same end, she then used a fine pencil to draw thin parallel marks delineating the faint shadows cast by the creases. The paper’s once latent complexity was unleashed. Its pristine (artless) past remained a presence beneath the surface. Through a set of effects, both accidental and intended the blank sheet had become defined, articulated through hard-edged incident; it also continued to carry the dynamic tension of its violent collapse."Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include: