RSA 2023 GRADUATES

2023 BA → Julia Hopkinson

Julia Hopkinson

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Hopkinson, J. 1
Primum non nocere, Plaster and acrylic, 138 cm x 60 cm, 2023

My practice takes direction from Modernist principles – with a strong focus on the formal elements, (such as line, shape, and colour), abstraction and the use of grids. But as part of my creative process I intentionally use chance and accident, which means that the works are not fully pre-determined. Often chance and accident disrupt the works and send them into new directions. Sometimes they determine the work completely,

Typically I make screen prints and wall based installations, which inter-relate.

Much of my recent work has dealt with the ethical dilemmas that I see arising from modern medicine, which now has an incredible ability to extend human life. By setting medication in a modernist frame of reference the works ask the question “Is medication actually delivering the utopian ideals of Modernism?” Is prolonging life in this way really giving a better human experience? Or resulting tragically, instead just in prolonged suffering.

Hopkinson, J. 2
Fourteen stops, Acrylic screenprint on cartridge paper, 38 x 48 cm 2022
Hopkinson, J. 3
Primum non nocere, Acrylic screenprint on cartridge paper, 35 x 45 cm
Hopkinson, J. 4
Primum non nocere, Acrylic screenprint on cartridge paper, 35 x 45 cm