HELEN HOPCROFT | THE SHIPPING NEWS | ONLINE EXHIBITION 2024

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Helen Hopcroft is a Tasmanian artist, writer and occasional performer who lives in Maitland. She holds a Master in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Royal College of Art and a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University. Helen has just been awarded Creative Australia’s Keesing Studio in Paris.
While studying at the Royal College of Art, Helen was awarded a number of prestigious arts prizes. She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy as part of the National Westminister 90s Prize for Arts and travelled to artist residencies in Barcelona, Paris and New York. Helen returned to Australia to live in 2000, with a solo exhibition at the Adelaide Festival. One of her paintings was chosen as the Festival’s poster image by director Robyn Archer, with lines from her poetry used on Festival merchandise marketing. In 2017, Helen had a two-person exhibition with Bertie Blackman at Despard Gallery in Hobart, and in 2020 she had a large-scale solo exhibition (The Re-enchantment) at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Helen’s publication list includes The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly, Griffith Review and ArtsHub.com. She 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’. Spineless Wonders recently published Helen’s erotic novella, The Nights, as an illustrated book with a foreword by Carmel Bird.
The Nights was launched at the 2024 Newcastle Writers Festival. 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/auto-fiction about the experience.