Sarah Hopkins gained an MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Swansea Institute  (now Swansea Metropolitan University) in 2003. She has worked in South Wales for much of her career as a printmaker, although her travels across Europe and further afield has influenced her work.

With an emphasis on the urban environment, Sarah’s work explores the impact of human intervention; declining industry, polluted landscapes and concrete facades of the inner city that are so plentiful in South Wales, all of which provide a wealth of material about the city and the people who live there.

I endeavour to transform the monolithic monstrosities that blot our landscape into everyday beauty; a beauty, which in its wonderful and bizarre quirkiness is an integral part of my neighbourhood.

Sarah Hopkins

Her exploration of printmaking techniques is as various as the urban environment on which she focuses. Its diversity is reflected in the range of patterns and images, which simultaneously connote the issues which concern her. The combination of techniques, e.g. collagraph and silkscreen, introduces notions of multi-layered societies who inhabit similar spaces in the city. The innovative approach, sustained through experimental processes, instils the work with an original and dynamic thrust.

Dr Anne Price-Owen