Louise Hopkins lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She received her Master of Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. Before then she studied at Newcastle Polytechnic and Brighton Polytechnic.

She makes paintings and drawings, often directly onto surfaces that already contain information; world maps, patterned furnishing fabric, magazine pages, photographs, folded or pierced paper, sheet music. Recently she has been using graph paper, grids and music manuscript pages as the surface of her paintings and drawings, and this has led to developing abstract geometric works for urban and rural locations.

‘Hopkins’ art is always responsive, traditionally working with existing marks or folds on paper…but in these large-scale works, she is responding to something much larger: the environment itself. Just as Dance Number spoke to its location, so Flying Fox addresses Cample Line, the colour of the roof beams, the red sandstone of the walls, the vibrant green of the trees outside. It’s as if she has found a way to take the principles by which she always worked and apply them on a whole new scale… Hopkins’ work repays time spent, and the longer one spends…the more one notices complex layers of response’. Susan Mansfield.

One person exhibitions and projects include: Double Flower, Cove Park, Argyll, UK (2023). Flying Fox, CAMPLE LINE, rural Dumfriesshire, UK (2018). Dance Number – temporary Artist Wall Commission for the Mackintosh Building exterior, Glasgow School of Art, UK (2017). Black Sea, White Sea, part of GENERATION: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Linlithgow Burgh Halls, UK (2014). Freedom of Information, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2005). Group exhibitions include: Beads, Stations, Berlin, Germany (2023); Lines of Empathy, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London and Close Ltd, Somerset, UK (2022); Moderato Cantabile, S&D Projects, London, UK (2022). You can have curves and straight lines... Paule Vézelay/Louise Hopkins at 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow (2021). Scotland and Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy (2007).

In 2023 Hopkins was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of Glasgow in conjunction with the Glasgow School of Art.

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