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Louise Hopkins

2/7

Description

Maker

Louise Hopkins (English, b. 1965)

Title

2/7

Year

1997

Medium

  • Oil on reverse of patterned fabric

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil on reverse of patterned fabric

Materials

oil

Supports

  • fabric

Dimensions

Diptych, overall: 91.4 x 130.8 cm (36 x 51 1/2 inches) (overall)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

written on back: "Hopkins" "Top"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2007.18

Type

  • Paintings

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Books

Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 8: Give and Take

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Multi-Part Art
Contemporary Works in the Collection
Jul 11, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009

Label copy

This diptych was made by reversing a floral printed commercial fabric, stretching it, and applying numerous layers of a translucent medium. Some of the printed pattern is then carefully painted over in brown so that the result looks quite different from the original fabric, and the prepared but unpainted areas take on a ghostly aura. Hopkins fuses fine-art technique with a decorative every­day material that might be considered in bad taste, as opposed to one in a more purified Modernist style. It recalls carpets, upholstered furniture, wallpaper, and draperies typical of British bed-and-breakfast establishments characterized by multiple floral patterns seemingly in conflict with one another.

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Louise Hopkins (English, b. 1965)
2/7, 1997
Oil on reverse of patterned fabric
Diptych, overall: 91.4 x 130.8 cm (36 x 51 1/2 inches) (overall)
Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art 2007.18

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