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
Landscape is everywhere: an obvious subject for art which has inspired many of Britain’s greatest painters. This day school explores three centuries of struggle and passion that changed the way we look at the world, from landscape painting to Land Art.
Trees speak to all of us. Across the world and throughout history, trees have been central to our lives: sources of shelter and food and wonder. This day school explores how Western artists through the ages have celebrated their mysterious power.
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.