Louise Hopkins Scottish, b. 1965

Louise Hopkins (b.1965, based in Glasgow), paints over maps, sheet music, photographs, and other informed surfaces. Her works suggest a chain of contrasts – between mass-produced and handcrafted, reality and artifice, positive and negative, surface and depth, hidden and exposed (Askew, Lucy - Generation Guide/Reader; National Galleries of Scotland, 2014).

Recent group exhibitions include You can have curves and straight lines..(42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, 2021), Dévider le reel at Les Abattoirs ( FRAC Midi-Pyrenees, 2017), Black Sea, White Sea ( Glasgow, 2014). She was one of 6 artists to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, and in 2005 she had a major one-person exhibition Freedom of Information at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. Her works are included in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.