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I recently spent three happy days in Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s cafe, sketching some of their stuffed birds. While the original plan was to blend a few of TMAG’s magnificent collection together, bits of bird meeting parts of reptiles, I ended up getting a bit obsessive about a Currawong and a compassionate looking Kelp…
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Strange Tales, my latest solo exhibition, has just opened at Despard Gallery, Tasmania, and will be on show until the 31st May (my birthday!) Although the show is mainly paintings and drawings, I’ve included three artist’s books, once of which is the subject of this post. ‘Sirena: a love story’ was partly inspired by a…
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Strange Tales, my solo exhibition at Despard Gallery is coming up on the 10th May. It’s a weird blend of painting and literary references, with fairy tale and Tasmanian Gothic iconography, peculiar narratives, unsettling characters and haunting landscapes. Any creative act is a little like a conjuring trick, you’re never entirely sure if it’s going…
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I’ve got a solo exhibition coming up at Despard Gallery, Hobart, and have been spending lots of time in the studio trying to get the paintings done. Strange Tales opens on the 10th May and will be on show until the 29th. The painting pictured above is ‘The Marriage Plot’ oil on canvas, about 5′…
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Last year, thanks to a Seedpod grant from the good people at Octapod, I kicked off ‘Seed’ a series of community art events at Fig Tree Community Garden. Trevor Horsnell and myself hosted a series of events that culminated in the painting of a butterfly mural on the wall of the rock steady Croatian Club,…
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 