Louise Hopkins

BIOGRAPHY

Louise Hopkins is an artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. She was born in Hertfordshire and studied at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic and Glasgow School of Art.

Her paintings and drawings are often made directly onto surfaces that already contain information; world maps, patterned furnishing fabric, magazine pages, printed or hand-drawn grids, photographs, folded or pierced paper, sheet music.

Hopkins was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997 and won a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award in 2002. She was among 6 artists chosen to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.