Louise Hopkins

Louise Hopkins (born 1965) is a British contemporary artist and painter who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Biography

Hopkins was born in Hertfordshire, England and completed the Foundations Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic from 1984 to 1985. She studied fine art at Newcastle Polytechnic between 1985 and 1988, graduating with a B.A.(Hons). For a time, after graduating from Newcastle Polytechnic, she lived and worked in Australia, where she also exhibited. After a two-year course she graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a master's degree in 1994.

Hopkins quickly gained recognition in Glasgow and London after graduating in 1994. That year she was included in a group show, ''New Art in Scotland'' in Glasgow and in a touring show, ''SWARM'', organised by the Scottish Arts Council during 1995. In 1996 Hopkins featured in the group show ''New Contemporaries 96'' at Tate Liverpool. 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. In 2014, she exhibited at Linlithgow Burgh Halls as part of ''GENERATION-25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland''.

Work

Hopkins is known for making work on the surfaces of pre-existing, and usually pre-printed, materials 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:
*''Black Sea, White Sea,'' Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow, (part of GENERATION-25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland), 2014.
*''Settings,'' Mummery + Schnelle, London, 2014.
* Project Room, Mummery + Schnelle, London, 2010.
*''Harness'' at Mummery + Schnelle, London, in October/November 2008;
*''Freedom of Information'' at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2005;
*''The Round Room,'' Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2004;
*doggerfisher, Edinburgh, in 2003;
*Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, in 2003;
*Angles Gallery, California, in 2001;
*Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, in 1999;
*Artconnexion, Lille, in 1997;
*Galerie Isabella Kackprzak, Berlin, in 1997;
*Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, in 1998;
*Tramway Project Room, Glasgow, in 1996;
*Aberdeen Art Gallery, in 1994;
*Canberra School of Art, in 1993;
*Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, in 1992.

Commissions, projects and residencies

*''Dance Number'', Glasgow School of Art, 2017-2019;
* Artist in Residence, Cove Park, 2017;
*''Below another sky'', Scottish Print Network International Residency Programme, 2012–14;
*''My Favourite Place'', Scottish Book Trust Commission, 2012;
* Artist in Residence, Glenfiddich, Scotland, 2004;
* Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia, 1993

Awards

* Creative Scotland Award, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Award, 2002;
* Research and Training Award, Richard Hough Resource, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001;
* Scottish Arts Council Award, 1997;
* First Exhibition Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1994
* Richard Ellis Award, Glasgow School of Art, 1994

Public collections

* Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen;
* Arts Council of England, London;
* Artbank, Sydney, Australia
* British Council, London;
* City Arts Centre, Edinburgh;
* Jumex Collection, Mexico; Colección Júmex;
* Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
* Museum of Modern Art, New Yor

* Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne;
* Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley;
* Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island;
* Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

References

External links

Louise Hopkins' WebsiteBelow Another SkyThe Fruitmarket GalleryGeneration art ScotlandReview

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1965 births
Living people
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
21st-century English painters
21st-century English women artists
Alumni of Northumbria University
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
British conceptual artists
Women conceptual artists
British draughtsmen
People educated at Bromsgrove School
People from Hertfordshire
Scottish contemporary artists
Scottish women artists