About
Amanda Hopkins
My work seeks to connect us with the natural world around us, capturing details of the places we inhabit and dramas we encounter. I have a lively public art practice and work with architects and landscape designers to create site specific work. For many years taught Spatial Practices at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Understanding place and collaborating with architects, designers and developers is central to my practice.
1993 BA 3D Design Middlesex University
1983 BA Developmental Psychology Sussex University
selected exhibitions
2018 ArtSpring Gallery, Tonbridge, Kent
2017 Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2017 kent Printmakers, The Beaney, Cantebury
2017 Solo show at Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley Arts Council
2017 Shoreham Sculpture/The London Group, Kent
2016 ko – ax Book Illustration, Mascalls Gallery, Kent
2016 I Dream of Flying, Resort Studios Gallery, Margate, Kent
2015 Every Drawing Tells a Story, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
2015 A Celebration of Innovation, Xross Polynation Art gallery, Maidstone, Kent
2009 Allotments, Horticultural Society, Shoreham, Kent
2008 Star, Church of Saint Peter & St Paul, Kent
1998 Teleport, Alphabet, London
selected commissions
2015 Flock One, The Cullen Family, Kent
2012 Star Gazing, Mottisfont Abbey National Trust, Hampshire
2011 Scatterbrain Balustrade, Invicta House, Kent
2006 Ropetackle Lenses, Adur District Council, Sussex
2005 Prospects, Gunpowder Park, Hertfordshire
2004 Slice Of Life, Essex County Council
2003 Frame, Harwich primary School, Essex
2002 Davy Downe, Thames Chase Forest, Essex
2000 Flock, Waterlow Park, London
1998 Parkland Walk Markers, Gillespie Park, London
1998 Knotted Gate, Islington Ecology Centre
1997 CastleBridge Viewpoint, Islington Ecology Centre, London
1997 Rope Organics, Temple Cloud Community Centre, Bristol
1997 Fuse: designers, Ariists and Architects Collaborate, Sutton House London
1994 Collective Evidence, Leaside Bus Company, London (route 73 and 38)
funded research and consultANCY
2005 Visions of the Valley – a critical examination of the packaging of the country side in Kent, University of the Arts London
2004 Sizing The Slice, CEBE case study on good educational practice, published 2004, Clelford & Hopkins
2002 Mind Meccano, Clelford & Hopkins, in Shared Visions, a joint arts/CEBE Conference, University of Brighton
2001 Art consultant for remodelling 12 Primary Schools in Essex for Essex County Council and French Kier Anglia
2000 Five Minutes Peace: Artefacts and Quietude, Eagle and Hooper
1998 Artist consultant Mayflower School, Essex County Council and French Kier Anglia
1998 Makers in Schools: future development’ for The Crafts Council