Working with painting, drawing, video and sound, Hopkins’ work is often characterised by a caricatural, grotesque treatment of the figure. This approach centres around the transformation of the head into a terrain, where various threshold states of conciousness are navigated. Drawing upon experiences such as waking dreams, unexplained phenomena, and psychic forces, Hopkins’ work charts the conflict between the desire to find some sort of meaning, and the nonsensical, absurd reality of such experiences.
Read MoreBorn in 1978, Hopkins lives and works in Sydney and has been exhibiting locally and internationally since 2003. In 2008 he was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Artist Scholarship and had a studio residence at Artspace. The exhibition Bated Breath in Nov/Dec 2012 will mark Hopkins’ fourth solo show at Gallery 9.
