Louise Hopkins

Using a variety of materials such as furnishing fabric, newspapers, song sheets, maps and comic strips as the basis for her works, Louise Hopkins’ art can at first appear playful and sensuous. Her primary intention, however, is not one of embellishment, but of disruption. Her painstaking use of paint to alter or obliterate the meaning of the original material on which she  works is disorientating and at times disturbing.

Hopkins was born in Hertfordshire. She studied at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic and Glasgow School of Art and is based in Glasgow. At the time of the exhibition she was represented by doggerfisher/Susanna Beaumont, Edinburgh.