Biography

Phill Hopkins

Biography

1961 Born Hartcliffe in Bristol, England
1981–1982 Foundation Studies, Filton Technical College, Bristol
1982–1985 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1985 Settled in Leeds, England



One-Man Exhibitions

2008 Seven Drunken Nights - Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham

1996 Domestic Airspace – Brahm Gallery, Leeds

1994/5 Recent Drawings – Leeds City Art Gallery

1991/2 Flyers – Recent Sculptures & Drawings – Leeds City Art Gallery

1991 Elmete Hall, Leeds

1990 Drawings & Sculpture – Brahm Gallery, Leeds

1988 Sculptures – Cookridge Street Gallery, Leeds

Drawing 85 – 88 – Wakefield College Gallery, Wakefield

The Little Naturalist – St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds

1985 Drawings – LASS Gallery, Leeds

1984 Hartcliffe Arts Festival – Bristol



Selected Group Exhibitions


2010 Behold : Curated by Shaeron Caton-Rose, St John The Baptist Church, Knaresborough


Pilgrimage to Hailes, Hailes Church, Gloucestershire


2008 12 Artists for Christmas, The Cafe Gallery, Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre, Knaresborough.

Pilgrimage to Hailes, Hailes Church, Gloucestershire

2007 Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists & The Public Realm – Round Foundry, Leeds

2005 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery

2004 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery

2003 Other Criteria – The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery

2002 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery

2001 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery

1996 Homage à Moholy-Nagy Làszlo – Hungarian Museum of Photography,
Kecske-met, Hungary

1996 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery
18 x 24
10 Galeria de La Bibliotheque, Maison Pourtons ‘Gustave Ansart’,
Haulchin, France
Marie du Vieux – Lille, Place Louise de Bettignies, Vieux-Lille, France
Echevinage, Grand – Place de Saint-Amand-Les-Eaux, France

1995 Leeds Artist’s Show – Leeds City Art Gallery
Sculptor’s Drawings – John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

1994/5 Sculptor’s Drawings – Cornerhouse, Manchester

1993 Declarations of War – Contemporary Art from The Imperial War Museum
Kettle’s yard, Cambridge
Four Centuries of Sculptors Drawings from the Collection of Leeds
City Art Galleries – Mistodrzitelsky Palace, Moravska Galerie, Bruno,
Czechoslovakia
Bookies & Boxers (The Final Round) – The Manor House, Ilkley
Dixon Bates, Leeds
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany

1992/3 The Bookmaker – Elizabethan Gallery, Wakefield
Birmingham Central Library

1991 6th Yorkshire Arts Biennial – Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough

1989 Exchanges – Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
Invisible Cities – Leeds City Art Gallery
Art 92 – Brahm Gallery, Leeds

1987 Winners Exhibition Showcase Summer 87 – Elizabethan Gallery,
Wakefield

1986 Freedom to Touch – Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Surrealism Surveyed – Responses to an Exhibition – Leeds City Art
Gallery

1985 Whitworth Young Contemporaries – Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

1984 New Contemporaries – ICA, London



Collections

The Imperial War Museum, London
Stadt Dortmund, Germany
The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary
The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leeds City Council
Faith Lodge, St George's Crypt, Leeds
Beeston Primary School, Leeds
Clapgate Primary School, Leeds
The Brahm Agency, Leeds
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Works in private collections in Britain, Holland, Germany and USA

Selected Bibliography

Bruce Bateman, Essay, in Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain, Published by Henry Moore Institute 2003. ill.
Bruce Bateman Published to accompany exhibition Phill Hopkins - Domestic Airspace – Brahm Gallery, Leeds 1996. ill.
Penelope Curtis & Terry Friedman, Editors, Leeds Sculpture Collections Illustrated Concise Catalogue, published by The Henry Moore centre for the Study of Sculpture 1996. ill.
Chris Taylor, Bookies and Boxers (The Final Round), published by Impress 1993. ill.
Terry Friedman, Four Centuries of Sculptors Drawings from the Collection of Leeds City Art Galleries, published by HMCSC 193. ill.
Artistic Feat for Old Shoes, The Daily Telegraph 31.01.92. ill.
Robert Clark, The Guardian, 14.12.91. ill.
Article, YEP, 06.12.91. ill.
Mary Sara, Yorkshire Post, 12.12.91.
Aeroplane Dreams, Published to accompany exhibition Phill Hopkins – Flyers, Recent Sculptures & Drawings, HMCSS 1991. ill.
Clive Rand Published to accompany exhibition Phill Hopkins – Drawings & Sculpture, Brahm Gallery, Leeds 1990. ill.
Nigel Walsh, Invisible Cities, Leeds City Art Gallery, 1989. ill.
Peter Inch, Arts Review 25.03.88. ill.
Sue Unterhalter, The Art, the Magic, Yorkshire Post 23.03.88. ill.
Robert Clark, The Guardian 15.03.88
Miranda Strickland, Published to accompany exhibition Phill Hopkins – The Little Naturalist, St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds 1988. ill.
Mary Sara, Yorkshire Post 04.11.87
Mary Sara Yorkshire Post 27.06.87



Related Work History

2008 – Present Runs Henshaws Arts Centre, Knaresborough, N.Yorkshire

2007 – 2008 Education Developments Manager - Henshaws College,
Harrogate

2007 Development Work – Henshaws College, Harrogate

2005 – Present Director - Think-Garden Design Company, Leeds

1998 – 2005 Programme Manager - Park Lane College, Leeds

1996 – 1998 Programme Manager - Airedale & Wharfedale College,
Leeds

1995 – 1996 Lecturer – Dept Adult & Continuing Education, University of
Leeds

1993 – 1998 Lecturer – Park Lane College, Leeds

1993 – 1998 Information Assistant – The Henry Institute, Leeds

1990 Live Guide – British Art Show (Touring)
Andy Goldsworthy Exhibition, Leeds City Art
Gallery

1996 – Present Artist in Education

1985 – 1993 Adult Education Tutor – Leeds City Council

1988 - 1993 Visiting Lecturer – Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds College of Art & Design

1986 – 1987 Tutor - WEA