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KATHY HOOPER

“Ever since I was very young, all I wanted to do was paint and make things. Growing up home schooled, on a farm in South Africa, I drew and painted all the time, animals, birds and plants and a weekly comic strip, delivered free to my family, mostly devoted to lusty girls and tough men. I try to say what I feel and think through my work, both sculpture and paintings and I work mostly in acrylics on canvas or paper; usually the work turns into a series as I explore an idea. Often figurative and with colour as a strong element, I am also exploring a more abstract approach to both landscape and the human figure in the work I am at present doing.”

- Kathy Hooper -

Born in Africa, painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramist Kathy Hooper studied in England and in South Africa before coming to Canada in the early 1960’s. She has an impressive exhibition history and an equally impressive record of acting on behalf of artists on boards and juries. Her most recent solo exhibitions include The Dog Series, which grew out of a visit to Mexico and which was shown there, The Dark Series, which dealt with the racial turmoil of South Africa and before that The Marginalia for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and A Series on Violence at the Gallery Connexion. She has exhibited across Canada and the United States with Five New Brunswick Artists (Strathbutler winners), through the Maritimes with Anecdotes and Enigmas the Marion McCain show of 1994 and in Waterloo, Ontario at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Hooper served on the Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Arts from 1986-89, which proposed the formation of an Arts Board, and as an Arts Board member from 1990-91. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Canada Council Art Bank and on various juries both national and provincial. Her works are found in public and private collections in Canada and beyond. Hooper lives in Hampton, New Brunswick.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Canada Council Art Bank
Claridge Collection
Memorial University, Newfoundland
New Brunswick Art Bank
New Brunswick Museum
Petty Collection
Putman Collection
Strathbutler Collection
Universite de Moncton, N.B

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2011 Invisible Worlds (Becoming Invisible), New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB
2010 Invisible Worlds (Becoming Invisible), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
(with Toby Graser and Suzanne Hill),
Trio: Graser, Hill & Hooper, Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, NB
2009 Portraits: New Brunswick Painters, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB
Beyond Words, Galerie d'art Louise et Reuben-Cohen, Moncton, NB
2008 Beyond Words, Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, NB
2006 Peter Buckland Gallery Saint John, NB
Gotlieb Gallery Portland, Oregon
Transit, Deutshe Welkstaethen Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
2001 Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John NB
Three- person exhibition, Toby Graser, Suzanne Hill, Kathy Hooper, Centro
Cultural de Merida, Olimpo, Yucatan, Mexico
2000 Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, NB (solo)
Handworks Gallery. Saint John, NB (solo)
Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, traveled throughout Canada
1997 Five New Brunswick Artists/Cinq Artistes Nouveau Brunswickois, travelling exhibition of the first five Strathbutler Award winners
1994 Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition
1990 Solo Show. Marginalia. Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Fredericton, NB (solo)
1989 Galerie d’art Universite de Moncton. NB (solo)
Gallery Connexion. Fredericton, NB (solo)

Selected Awards

2000 The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media
Arts. Jury person.
1998 Awarded Creations Grant. Province of N.B.
1994 Awarded the Strathbutler Award. This annual award of $10, 000 is intended to
recognize excellence (aesthetics, creativity, innovation, technical mastery) in
visual arts and/or crafts in N.B. as well as a substantial contribution to the arts
generally.
1991 Creation Grant. Province of New Brunswick.

Selected Links

artathooper.com