Duncan Hopkins is an artist based in Cornwall, South West UK. He is a 2011 graduate in MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice from University College Falmouth.
His work is predominently visual and aural. He uses painting, photography and digital media to produce solutions (either temporary or long-term) which explore sensations of embodiment, detachment, perception and consciousness. The working processes can be spontaneous and improvised, or involve deeply considered methodologies of refinement.
He has willingly created art since childhood, finding mystery, necessity and contentment in the processes of developing visual languages. But he is not satisfied by working with an established formula. It is essential for him to constantly push the boundaries of image making, and to understand the potentials and impulses within an idea.
He exhibits regularly in Cornwall and the south west, and more recently London. He was recently featured by Saatchi Online, and has been shortlisted for the first Door Prize for Painting, to be held in Bristol in March 2012.
He has a background in graphic design, and has produced work for a variety of individuals, community groups and clients.
Contact
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Statement
“In primordial perception, Merleau-Ponty writes, subject and object, noesis and noema, are blurred to the point of disappearing into one sole “intentional fabric,” namely, the “flesh of the sensible.” Rather than claiming that the body extracts the emotional essence of things, we should instead speak of a single reverberation out of which perception, gesture, painting, and speaking emerge.”
Ted Toadvine, ‘Singing the World in a New Key’ 2004
Study
MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice – 10.2010-09.2011: University College Falmouth, Cornwall.
HNC Multimedia & Graphic Design – 2003: Strode College, Street, Somerset.
BA Graphic Design – 1991: Faculty of Art & Design, Bristol Polytechnic, Somerset.
