Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
1995 Scotland. Currently lives and works in London

Education
2013-2017, the Glasgow School of Art
2019-2023, Royal Academy Schools

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2023, Baby Talk, L.U.P.O.-Lorenzelli Projects, Milan

Group Exhibitions
2023, The Unlimited Dream Company II, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
2023, Summer Fling, L.U.P.O.-Lorenzelli Projects, Milan
2023, RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2022, GLOSS, TICK TACK, Antwerp
2022, There Goes the Neighbourhood, Castor Gallery, London
2022, Summer Fling, L.U.P.O.-Lorenzelli Projects, Milan
2022, Moonstruck Noon, Linseed Projects, Shanghai
2022, Brick Games, L21 Gallery, Spain
2022, Colour, Culture, Feelings, Ojiri Gallery,London
2022, Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021, Interim Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021, Eating Sugar? No, Papa!, L21 Gallery, Spain
2021, Disco, Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2021, 195th RSA Annual Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Awards
2023, Annabel Paradise Award for Painting
2022, The Peter Rippon Travel Award
2021, The Cross Trust Grant

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Creating uncanny, arresting works that express the precarity of our relationship to ourselves, Hobkirk’s work speaks to and subverts tropes of masculine surrealism, challenging notions of the male gaze by reappropriating historically fetishized subjects. Hobkirk’s ongoing ‘Doll’ series, exploring her own childhood and broader symbols of feminine domesticity as a means of questioning contemporary female autonomy.

For Art on a Postcard, a zoomed in doll's mouth and crying eye convey a sense of loss. An open doll'smouth, which cannot speak, reminds the viewer that this object has no real agency. An attempt to givethe doll a feeling of aliveness by creating a fake tear, evokes an even stronger sadness, because sheultimately never was or can become real.


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