Georgie Hopton

Born in North Yorkshire, Hopton studdied at St Martins School of Art London 1986 – 89.

Hopton paints sculptures she likes. Many of the works she represents reflect artistic and aesthetic concerns which are out of place in the cultural climate of the present: the loose handling and deft grasp of human form and posture in a Degas figure study for example; or the biomorphic distortion and monumentality of a Henry Moore nude.

There is a sense in which figurative sculpture, more pointedly than any other medium or genre, embodies the absurd and tragic yearning of the artwork, on the behalf of its creator, to become something more than a dumb object.