LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.10 (Phill Hopkins)
Nolan Country' series.
56 photographs taken on a visit to Wales including a visit to The Rodd - Sidney Nolan Trust in October 2019.
58 ink on postcard drawings made between 07:11:19 and 02:01:20.
Made during the run-up and aftermath of the recent general election, as a kind of meditative disturbance and distraction.
Made without watching, listening or reading any news coverage since Friday 13 December 2019 and not knowing if I can bring myself to ever engage again.
58 10x8" paintings based on the 58 postcard drawings
Phill Hopkins was born in Bristol in 1961 and has been an artist based in Leeds since graduating from Goldsmiths College, London in 1985. His practise is very cross-disciplinary and includes the use of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.
He exhibits both nationally and internationally, with recent shows at BasementArtsProject, Leeds; Pangolin Gallery, London; 3rd on 3rd Gallery, New York USA; Galerie Youn, Canada and Cross Gallery, Australia. His work resides in various public and private collections including The Imperial War Museum, London, Nanjing Baijia Lake International Culture Investment Group, China, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Leeds Art Gallery, Doncaster Museums & Art Gallery, Stadt Dortmund, Germany, The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary.
WEBSITE: www.phill-hopkins.co.uk
TWITTER @phill_hopkins
Studio Journal Entry | In Conversation at LeftBank Leeds
BasementArtsProjects . . .
Stockholm Independent Art Fair Supermarket | February 2012
INHOSPITABLE | Liverpool Biennial | October 2012
INHOSPITABLE 1.1 | Leeds | November 2012