Dominic Hopkinson
A Harmony of Spheres
Preview Night
Friday 17th April | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
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(open at other times by appointment)
Saturday 18th April | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 19th April | 2pm – 4pm
Saturday 25th April | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 26th November | 2pm - 4pm -
Dominic Hopkinson (b. 1969) is an artist whose work addresses the connections between scientific and mathematical principles and concepts through the disciplines of drawing, sculpture and sculptural installations. Having worked as a studio assistant for Peter Randall-Page Hopkinson’s own work is an ongoing study of the geometry of abstract forms and the beauty and design found in nature.
Hopkinson is also one of the founding members of The Superposition, a collective responsible for many projects with a foot in the worlds of art, science and maths. Recent commissions for this group have seen their work realised at Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University and Deutsche Electron Synchrotron; University of Hamburg
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WEBSITE: https://www.dominichopkinson.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dominic.hopkinson.9
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dominichopkinson/
“Without mathematics there is no art.”
The work of Dominic Hopkinson takes as its basis the connection between science and art.
In art and music, the Golden Section is understood as a tool in achieving a measure of the beauty and design found in nature. Hopkinson's work looks at the geometry of abstract forms to highlight how these forms are produced in three-dimensional space.
“‘Although my work is abstract, it is recognisable and readable to a non-scientific audience because of the power of the underlying mathematics. We ourselves are defined, designed using the very same maths, maybe, therefore we can but recognise the process in the abstract.’”
Further Reading on this project can be found in the publication Hypogeal. The publication is now out-of-print but can be found in the Libraries of the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Beckett University.