Phill Hopkins
Profile/CV
Phill Hopkins studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. He exhibitis widely and is included in major collections, including The Imperial War Museum, London; Stadt Dortmund, Germany; The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary; The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture & Leeds City Art Gallery. His work deals with the process of discovery, that is, finding solutions to concerns and then attempting to let them go into a physical form – drawing, sculpture, installation, performance...He is concerned with narrative, a dialogue of his travelling through time/ageing and the anchors, or lack of them, of past and present - the paradox of balance and toppling over.
1961 Born Hartcliffe in Bristol, UK
Lives and works in London & Leeds, UK
Education: 1982–1985 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'PLACE' Installation and other works by Phill Hopkins, HoMA, Leeds
2008 Seven Drunken Nights. Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
1996 Domestic Airspace. Brahm Gallery, Leeds
1994/5 Recent Drawing. Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
1991/2 Flyers – Recent Sculptures & Drawings by Phill Hopkins. Leeds City Art Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Lange Nacht Der Museen, Innsbruck, Austria
Angels of the North, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
On the Edge, Temple Works, Leeds
Wilderness, Wesley Hall, Sheffield
2010/11 The Moment of Privacy has Passed - Sketchbooks by Contemporary Artists,
Architects and Designers. The Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
HOMA, Leeds
2010 Minutiae. Bank Street Gallery, Sheffield
v1b3 FALL 2010 SHELTER. International Digital Media Arts Association Conference
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Melange: Artist interventions curated by Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. Harvey
Nichols, Leeds Light Night
Behold. St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough
Pilgrimage to Hailes. Hailes Church, Gloucestershire
2008 Pilgrimage to Hailes, Hailes Church, Gloucestershire
2007 Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists & The Public Realm – Round Foundry, Leeds
2005 Leeds Artist’s Show. Leeds City Art Gallery
2003 Other Criteria. The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
1996 Homage à Moholy-Nagy Làszlo. Hungarian Museum of Photography,
Kecske-met, Hungary
199618 x 24. 10 Galeria de La Bibliotheque, Maison Pourtons ‘Gustave Ansart’,
Haulchin, France
Marie du Vieux . Lille, Place Louise de Bettignies, Vieux-Lille, France
Echevinage, Grand. Place de Saint-Amand-Les-Eaux, France
1995 Sculptor’s Drawings. John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1994/5 Sculptor’s Drawings. Cornerhouse, Manchester
1993 Declarations of War – Contemporary Art from The Imperial War Museum
Kettle’s yard, Cambridge
Four Centuries of Sculptors Drawings from the Collection of Leeds
City Art Galleries. Mistodrzitelsky Palace, Moravska Galerie, Bruno, Czech Rep
Collections
The Imperial War Museum, London; Stadt Dortmund, Germany; The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary; The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds;
Leeds City Art Gallery; The Brahm Agency, Leeds; Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Works in private collections in UK, Europe and USA
Selected Bibliography
BlankPages: Issue 37 2011. Front page and 6 page article with 7 ill.
Axis Success Stories, in Axis Notes 2011. ill.
Bruce Bateman, Essay, in Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain, Published by Henry Moore Institute 2003. ill.
Penelope Curtis & Terry Friedman, Editors, Leeds Sculpture Collections Illustrated Concise Catalogue, published by The Henry Moore centre for the Study of Sculpture 1996. ill.
Website www.phill-hopkins.co.uk
