Joanna Hopkins is a visual artist working in video, drawing, photography and installation, often using place specific vegetation as inspiration. During her time spent at Interface Inagh, she is exploring natural plant dyes and colours from the surrounding landscape, and weaving them into existing ideas for new work.
Recent commissions include invited artist for The Soil Project, Butler Gallery Kilkenny, 2024, and a CREATE Project Realisation Award 2024, working with Beaufort Nursing Home in Navan, from 2023 – 2024. Solo exhibitions include Fruitier Bodies, Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laogahire 2024; Fruity Bodies, GOMA Waterford 2023; Sympathetic Soup, 2021, Cregan Building, Dublin City University; The Growing Gallery, a dementia inclusive installation for the Lexicon Gallery, Dun laoghaire, Dublin, 2022; The Dublin City University Artist in Residence Award, 2020-2021, and Connecting, a solo exhibition for the BNA Neuroscience Conference, Science Gallery Dublin, 2019.
