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Head Facing Left
Oil on canvas
24" x 20"
2003
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Clyde Hopkins is a painter
who has worked in studios in South East London for over thirty years;
he was one of the group of artists that helped to set up APT in
Deptford in the mid 90s.
His work has been exhibited
in solo and group shows in public galleries throughout the UK including
the Serpentine, the Hayward, the Whitechapel, the Mappin, the Ikon,
the Axiom, the Bede, Winchester, Salisbury Arts Centre and the Arts
Gallery London. He has also shown at the Royal Academy and private
galleries including Francis Graham-Dixon, Flowers East, Martin Tinney,
Cardiff, and Galeria Joan Prats New York.
Late last year, his work was included in 'Scratching the Surface'
at Eton Drawing Schools (with Francesca Simon, Stuart Geddes and
Gary Wragg), and currently - June 2008 - in the RA Summer Exhibition
and in an exhibition, with Marilyn Hallam, in the Art into Hospitals
scheme at the Conquest Hospital, East Sussex.
Advanced Graphics London
has published a number of editions of screen prints, and has represented
him at art fairs.
In 1980 he was awarded
the Mark Rothko Travelling Scholarship, and in 1998, the Lorne Award.
He has worked in many
UK art colleges and universities, and from 1990 to 2006 was Head
of Painting at Chelsea College of Art, from where he retired as
an Emeritus Professor. In 2007-08, he acted as the curator and organiser
of an exhibition celebrating painting at Chelsea, called '…
Same As It Ever Was' which contained the work of some fifty artists,
occupied three galleries and was accompanied by a catalogue with
texts by Matthew Collings, David Ryan and Clyde Hopkins.
His paintings, prints
and works on paper are in a number of private and public collections.
© Clyde Hopkins
2010
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