Louise Hopkins
| Louise Hopkins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Louise Hopkins Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Newcastle Polytechnic; Glasgow School of Art |
| Known for | Art: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking |
| Notable work |
Aurora 1996 Songbook, 1998 Wood, 2003 Relief, 2005 Red Rings 2008 |
| Awards | Creative Scotland Award, 2002 |
Louise Hopkins (born in England, 1965) is a British contemporary artist and painter currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Presently, as well as developing her studio work, she teaches part-time at Glasgow School of Art.
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.
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.
Solo exhibitions include:
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