Clyde Hopkins

Clyde Hopkins

Clyde Hopkins was born in Bexhill, Sussex in 1946 and studied Fine Art at the
University of Reading in the sixties. He makes work in St Leonards on Sea and in Deptford, at APT studios. Although principally a painter, he also makes screenprints, which are editioned and published by Advanced Graphics London.

He has exhibited his painting for over forty years, starting with a schoolboy show in the Gas Showrooms, Barrow in Furness in 1964. Exhibitions include the Serpentine Gallery, London (1978 and 1986), the Acme Gallery London (1981), Ikon Gallery Birmingham and Rochdale Art Gallery (both 1985), Salisbury Art Centre (1988), Castlefield Gallery Manchester (1989), Kunstverein Kirchzarten Germany (Kunst Europa 1991), Reg Vardy Arts Foundation, Sunderland (1994), Atkinson Gallery Millfield School (1996), ‘Vodka, a Stiff Breeze and Paranoia' at the London Institute Gallery (1998), Francis Graham Dixon Gallery London (1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997), Galeria Joan Prats New York USA (1990 and 1994) and 116 gallery, Tenterden (2010). In 2012 he had a solo show –brown madder – at Chelsea Futurespace and later this year will be exhibiting at the Merston Gallery near Chichester, and again at the 116 gallery in 2013.

His work has also been in numerous group exhibitions at galleries and venues throughout the UK and Europe, including the Hayward, the Whitechapel, the Axiom, the Bede, MOMA Oxford, the Woodlands Gallery Greenwich, the Royal Academy Galleries London, the Ferens Gallery Hull, Hastings Museum and Art gallery, as well as private galleries such as Flowers East, Bayer Germany, Advanced Graphics London, Martin Tinney Wales and Hilton Young Gallery Penzance. Recent group shows include ‘Scratching the Surface’, a four person exhibition curated by Francesca Simon, shown at Eton College (2008) and at BayArt, Cardiff (2010), and ‘Uncaught Hares’ at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in 2011.

In 1980-81 he was awarded the Mark Rothko Memorial Travelling Fellowship (USA) and in 1998 the Lorne Award. The winter of 1989-90 was spent working in a studio in Barcelona. He is represented in a number of public and private collections in the UK and North America.

In 1982 he was appointed as Head of Painting at Winchester School of Art before moving to Chelsea College of Art as Principal Lecturer in Painting in 1990. He left Chelsea, a Professor of the University of the Arts London, in December 2006, and was made Emeritus Professor in May 2008.