Eliza Hopewell (b. 1994, London) is an artist working across painting, printmaking and furniture. Her work explores the difference between the interior and exterior worlds of women, and endeavours to open up the private, imaginary spaces that women occupy away from the public performance of femininity.
After graduating in Painting and Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art in 2016, Hopewell started a craft business. Working on commission, she painted stylised portraits on dinner plates. This became a successful vocation which lead to commissions from companies and institutions such as Soho house, Bella Freud and the Tate, and she exhibited with galleries including FELT and Hauser & Wirth. Having made a name for herself at the intersection of craft and art, Hopewell decided to move away from commissioned ceramics and shift into the world of fine art. In recent years she has been developing her practice as a painter in her studio in London, as well as on artist’s residencies.
Hopewell’s influences include artists Paula Rego, Edoard Manet and Ella Kruglyanskaya. She uses ideas and motifs from a diverse range of sources including horror films, gothic literature and religious painting to explore the experience of womanhood outwith the patriarchal gaze.
In 2021 Hopewell was selected by Kate Bryan for the Villa Lena Artist’s residency, And in 2022 she was chosen by Katy Hessell for the Great Women Artists residency at Palazzo Monti. She is currently attending an intensive drawing course at the Royal Drawing School, London.