Louise Hopkins

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

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.

Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Galleries Scotland, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

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.