Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Justine Hopkins read English and drama at Bristol University and took an MA at the Courtauld Institute. After a year in Belize as an archaeological illustrator, she took a PhD at Birkbeck College exploring the impact of scientific and religious controversies on landscape painters from 1800-1860. Her biography of the c20 painter and sculptor, Michael Ayrton, appeared in 1994. She has also contributed articles to a wide variety of periodicals and dictionaries, including the New Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford Dictionary of Western Art; an article on the Serb sculptor Ivan Meštrovic will be published in Sculpture Journal later this year. She works as a freelance lecturer in Art History for the Victoria and Albert Museum; Bristol, London, Oxford and Cambridge Universities; the Tate, National and National Portrait Galleries; Sotheby’s, Christies’ and assorted independent institutions, and is a registered lecturer for NADFAS.
Justine's approach to art combines practical and technical considerations with a critical and historical approach to socio-cultural issues, links with literature and an interest in the lives and personalities of artists; she is also a firm believer in the need to experience works of art in all media at first hand, and includes field trips to relevant collections in her courses whenever possible. Working freelance has given her experience across a broad artistic spectrum although the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remain her speciality. Current research projects include the interaction of the visual arts and poetry from Victoria to the present; changing visions of children and childhood in art and the relationship between artists and cities.
Art, Sculpture and Poetry of the First World War
Trees in Art and Literature 1800-2000
Society of Authors