Helen Hopcroft is a Tasmanian artist, performer and writer. She holds a Royal College of Art MFA (Painting) and a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University.
Helen has written non-fiction books for the University of Newcastle and Hunter Valley Grammar School, with her publication list including The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly, Griffith Review and ArtsHub.com. Helen has been shortlisted for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award, and for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing for her poem The Howling. On 5th April, iconic indie publisher Spineless Wonders will launch an illustrated version of Helen’s erotic novella, The Nights, at Leda Gallery in Newcastle.
Helen once spent a year dressed as Marie Antoinette for a piece of performance art titled My Year as a Fairy Tale and is currently writing a memoir about the experience. She lives in Maitland with her actor/musician husband Tony Jozef and daughter Sophie.
This blog was started to record whatever painting she was working on in her studio. It has since expanded in content, becoming an ongoing attempt to document or investigate the line between art and life.
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 
Hi helen,
I am looking at the website shown on your poster for The Secret – but it says that the work is not yet available – will you get something up in time for the opening on 18 Sept?
Paddy xxx
Hi Helen,
It was nice to meet you at the talk on Saturday. I checked out some of the paintings from your show on the blog and I was quite intrigued by the collage of vistas and symbols. Also, further to our conversation I would be very grateful if you were to ask your friend if he might be available to shoot my performance in November.
cheers,
Mark
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