Andrew Hopkins
Swimming in Vertigo
Opening Tuesday 6 October 6-8pm 3 - 28 October 2015
Robin Gibson Gallery modern + contemporary
Swimming in Vertigo is an evolving visual language of emotive colour and the physicality of paint. It fuses the process of painting with the exploration of landscape and narrative experiences; both real and imaginary. There is a map-like quality to the works, a semi-aerial perspective, and an almost psychedelic quality to the forms and colours. The compositions sometimes start with bursts of colour and paint, often slow an considered, and often relating to a sense of place. In these works I gradually develop and explore form and pictorial space, building up layers of paint that evolve through a process of revisions, reprisals, and counterattacks. The horizon is omnipresent in these works, as something like a theatrical stage for the paint to dance and float and mimic the rhythm of clouds, set against both the natural landscape and manmade interruptions. These works investigate an artistic process of certainty uncertainty, those meditative stages of struggle procrastination, and the happy accidents in the studio that way to decisive final flurries of rapid painterly brushwork, finally finish a painting.
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Spinning 2015 oil on canvas 46x46cm $500
Cadence 2015 oil on linen 46x56cm $500
Berowra Track 2015 oil on canvas 66x66cm $750
Swimming Pool 2015 oil on canvas 76x76cm $1,000
Spring Awakening 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Shinjuku Hotel 2015 oil on canvas, 102x102cm $1,500
Hell 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Snow Painting 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Catastrophe in the Horizon 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Rock Pool, Maroubra 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Cloudloom 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Sydney from Marrickville, 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Afternoon Fluro 2015 oil on canvas 102x102cm $1,500
Steep 2015 oil on canvas 137x153cm $2,400
Valley 2015 oil on canvas 137x153cm $2,400
Ravish 2015 oil on canvas 137x153cm $2,400
Tumbling Space 2015 oil on canvas 137x153cm $2,400
Andrew Hopkins Born 1987 Sydney lives & works in Sydney Education 2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney Solo Exhibitions 2013 Flying Dream Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2012 Regeneration Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2008 Andy’s Show East Sydney Doctors, Sydney Group Exhibitions 2015 Well Red Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2014 Small Gems Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Face 2 Face Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2013 The Clipboard Show Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Face 2 Face Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2012 The Clipboard Show Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Cut & Paste Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australian Panorama Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2011 Group show Butchers Shop Gallery, Mudgee NSW 2010 New Talent Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Emerald Couture Fashion Show Catwalk Design (weavings) National Art School, Sydney 2009 Degree Show National Art School, Sydney 2008 Naked East Sydney Doctors, Sydney In care for Christmas East Sydney Doctors, Sydney Heroine East Sydney Doctors, Sydney Let the blood run free East Sydney Doctors, Sydney Awards/Prizes/Residencies 2013 Finalist for the William Fletcher Biennial Traveling Fellowship Residency at the British School at Rome 2010 Awarded Lennox Street Studio Residency (6 months) Newtown at the completion of final year of BFA
Robin Gibson Gallery modern + contemporary
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