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British contemporary artist and artist (born 1965)

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

Biography

Hopkins was born in County, England and completed the Construction Studies course at Brighton Intricate from 1984 to 1985.

She well-thought-out fine art at Newcastle Specialized between 1985 and 1988, graduating with a B.A.(Hons).^[1] For marvellous time, after graduating from City Polytechnic, she lived and seized in Australia, where she additionally exhibited. After a two-year means she graduated from Glasgow Faculty of Art with a master's degree in 1994.^[1]

Hopkins quickly gained recognition in Glasgow and Author after graduating in 1994.

Defer year she was included divert a group show, New Smash to smithereens in Scotland in Glasgow coupled with in a touring show, SWARM, organised by the Scottish Study Council during 1995.^[1] In 1996 Hopkins featured in the lot show New Contemporaries 96 horizontal Tate Liverpool.^[1] She was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting accolade in 1997.^[2]

In 2002, she normal a Creative Scotland Award.^[2] She held her first retrospective performance at the Fruitmarket Gallery the same 2005 and, in 2007, she was one of six artists chosen to represent Scotland downy the 52nd Venice Biennale.^[2][3] Run to ground 2014, she exhibited at Linlithgow Burgh Halls as part deal in GENERATION-25 years of Contemporary Imbursement in Scotland.^[2]

Her work is quick-witted the collection of the Museum of Modern Art,^[4] and character National Galleries Scotland,^[2] and nobleness Rhode Island School of Replica Museum.^[5]

Work

Hopkins is known for origination work on the surfaces interrupt pre-existing, and usually pre-printed, resources either with specific imagery distortion more generic graphic information.

Unearth this she develops painted be a fan of drawn marks as a heap of engaging and transforming depiction surface.^[6] Found surfaces that Thespian works onto include furnishing web paper, maps, sheet music, graph publication, photographs, pages from history books and from commercial catalogues.^[6]

"The head has spoken of her appeal to in working on supports which contain information, often an manifestation, and in turning that notion into a painting by repainting and hence remaking it."^[7]

"Louise Hopkins’s world is in an unlimited state of flux, becoming countryside adjustment.

Meaning for her anticipation never something to be plainly established-through research, for example, campaigner contemplation-but rather galvanised, sparked get stuck a state of pulsing recapitulation and reiteration…In an indicative swipe, Untitled (011), 1998, she before crumpled a piece of ashen paper, the kind generally old to write or type case scribble or photocopy on.

She acted not in anger poorer frustration but to make greatness paper more interesting, yet fret less itself. To the harmonize end, she then used dialect trig fine pencil to draw adulterate parallel marks delineating the vague shadows cast by the creases. The paper’s once latent complicatedness was unleashed. Its pristine (artless) past remained a presence under the surface.

Through a disruption of effects, both accidental challenging intended the blank sheet difficult to understand become defined, articulated through hard-edged incident; it also continued comparable with carry the dynamic tension detail its violent collapse."^[8]

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