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Hartcliffe, Bristol, Englandborn in Hartcliffe in Bristol in England and lives and works in London and Leeds in England
1981–1982 Filton College, Bristol
1982–1985 Goldsmiths College, University of London
solo exhibitions
2012 5am there - The Muammar Gaddafi Variations. Bank Street Arts, Sheffield - 21:02:12 - 31:03:12
2011 'PLACE' Installation and other works by Phill Hopkins, HoMA, Leeds
2008 Seven Drunken Nights. Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham.
there's a gap here as things went a bit wonky so I didn't make any work for a while...
1996 Domestic Airspace. Brahm Gallery, Leeds
1994/5 Recent Drawing. Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
1991/2 Flyers – Recent Sculptures & Drawings by Phill Hopkins. Leeds City Art Gallery
1991 Elmete Hall. Leeds
1990 Phill Hopkins 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
group exhibitions
2012
Engediarts - Easter Story Exhibition opening 30:03:12 - 08:04:12 - Imperial Hotel, Colwyn Bay, Wales.
Supermarket: Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden. Represented by SCIBASE 17 - 19:02:12
2011
6 Degrees, The Monks Gallery, Lincoln
Happiness Project, Leeds City art Gallery
Lange Nacht Der Museen Innsbruck, Austria. 1 October
Angels of the North, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
Out of Work. St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough
On the Edge, Temple Works, Leeds
Wilderness, Wesley Hall, Sheffield
HOMA, Leeds
2010/11 HOMA, Leeds
The Moment of Privacy has Passed - Sketchbooks by Contemporary Artists, Architects and Designers. The Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
2010
Minutiae. Bank Street Gallery, Sheffield
v1b3 FALL 2010 SHELTER. International Digital Media Arts Association Conference
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Melange: Artist interventions curated by Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. Harvey
Nichols, Leeds Light Night
Behold. St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough
Pilgrimage to Hailes. Hailes Church, Gloucestershire
2008 12 Artists for Christmas. 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 Biennia. 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
Phill Hopkins with fishcollections
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 UK, Holland, Germany and USA
bibliography
BlankPages: Issue 37 2011. Front page and 6 page article with 7 ill.
Axis Success Stories, in Axis Notes 2011. ill.
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
Phill Hopkins is the Senior Manager at Henshaws Arts Centre, Knaresborough, N.Yorkshire