Tutor information
Justine Hopkins
Justine Hopkins read English and Drama at Bristol University, followed by an MA at the Courtauld Institute. After a year as an archaeological illustrator, she took a PhD at Birkbeck College exploring relationships between science, religion and landscape painting in the nineteenth century. Her biography of twentieth-century painter and sculptor Michael Ayrton appeared in 1994. She has contributed articles to a wide variety of periodicals and dictionaries; her latest article, on Serb sculptor Ivan Meštrović, appeared in Sculpture Journal last year. She works as a freelance lecturer in Art History for institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Oxford and Cambridge Universities; she is a registered lecturer for the Arts Society.
Courses
Glass: one of the oldest and most extraordinary of man-made materials. Our course explores glass and the arts of working it from Antiquity to the present day; the discovery and rediscovery of techniques and the achievements of its greatest practitioners.
Explore the career and achievements of John Singer Sargent: a portraitist extraordinary to the glittering Edwardian Age, who also painted sparkling landscapes, ambitious murals and one of the most haunting images of the Great War. Hybrid day school.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest museum of art and design anywhere in the world and one of the most popular visitor destinations. This day school explores the stories, people and objects that have shaped it over more than 200 years.