Yasmin Hopkins
Wild asparagus, 2023
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Yasmin Hopkins Wild asparagus
29 July –26 August 2023
In the exhibition Wild asparagus, Yasmin Hopkins presents a suite of paintings created with charcoal, oil paint, pigment, rabbit skin glue, oil stick, medium, ink and wax. Referencing imagery from her personal collection, art history and mythology, she paints forms and figures with loose linear gestures and swathes of colour. Hopkins’ subjects and medium appear to wrestle with each other, and as forms emerge or recede, the action and materiality of painting remains at the fore. This jostle creates a delicate tension that produces paintings loaded with colour, movement and awareness.
Yasmin Hopkins (b. 1999 Devon, UK) is a painter who graduated in 2021 from the Victorian College of the Arts (honous).
Selected exhibitions include Wild asparagus, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2023; Supine Glacier, TCB, Melbourne, 2022; Two keys, four corners, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2022; 2021 VCA Grad Show, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne, 2021; Woven Projects, Woven Collective Projects, Melbourne, 2021; Of Bio-Dwelling and Freighted Spaces, 2021; …a straight line towards the unknown, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2021; Toys-R-Us, Second Space Projects, Melbourne, 2021; and Red/Re-Read, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2019.
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil on board
40.5 x 50.5cm
Distant group gathering
, 2023Oil on board
40.5 x 50.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil, pastel and charcoal on canvas
101.5 x 152.5cm
Vector
, 2023Oil, pastel and charcoal on canvas
101.5 x 152.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Wild asparagus, 2023
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil on canvas
62 x 76.5cm
Effort foot (foot-ful)
, 2023Oil on canvas
62 x 76.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Rabbit skin glue and gesso on canvas
61 x 96.5cm
Copy Mechanical Water
, 2023Rabbit skin glue and gesso on canvas
61 x 96.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Wild asparagus, 2023
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Yasmin Hopkins
Wild asparagus, 2023
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil on canvas
40 x 30cm
Balancing foxes
, 2023Oil on canvas
40 x 30cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil and watercolour on canvas
25.5 x 30.5cm
Personality problems
, 2023Oil and watercolour on canvas
25.5 x 30.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Wild asparagus, 2023
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 35.5cm
Paddling puddles
, 2023Oil on canvas
45.5 x 35.5cm
Yasmin Hopkins
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 35.5cm
Snowman Instincts
, 2022Oil on canvas
45.5 x 35.5cm