Louisa Buck in conversation with Georgie Hopton

About

Join us at Lyndsey Ingram gallery for writer and art critic Louisa Buck in conversation with artist Georgie Hopton.

Louisa Buck is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary art. She has been London Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper since 1997 and is a regular reviewer on BBC radio and TV. 

She is the author of a number of catalogue essays for institutions including Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, ICA London, MCA Sydney and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. 
Louisa was a judge for the 2005 Turner Prize.

Georgie Hopton was born in 1967 in the UK and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London in 1989. Her works in photography, collage, printmaking and sculpture are made in conjunction with wallpaper, fabric designs, unique and editioned rugs. Self-portraits, studies of flowers and still life are consistent subject threads, woven through forays into abstraction and decoration. Her heart lies in creation with no boundaries, the melding of art and life, the one reflecting and intersecting the other. Shows include; The South London Gallery, Milton Keynes Gallery in the UK, and Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome. Her work is housed in several permanent collections including the Arts Council Collection and her public art commissions can be seen at The Home Office and Royal London Hospital. Hopton was nominated for the Max Mara prize in 2007.