Roger Hopgood    
   
         
Treasures        

A series of 15 images combining familiar objects with landscape. The starting point for this work was a kind of anthropological reflection on objects found at car boot sales, objects that on the one hand didn't seem to merit much attention but on the other seemed to embody some of the complexities of our culture and sense of identity. In the work, objects with associations of social class or systems of belief are presented up close for careful scrutiny. The tidy arrangement of domestic items, jewellery and ornaments makes reference to the ordered displays of the ethnographic museum, with the landscape backgrounds functioning as awkwardly supportive backdrops, echoing the museum diorama - where artefacts playfully combine with spectacle.

 
 
     
 
     
©Roger Hopgood          
RogerHopgood is a UK artist working with digital Photogrraphy and issues of cultural identity. Since leaving the Slade School of Art Roger Hopgood has worked mainly in experimental film. Home Comforts is a re-working of the Robinson Crusoe story and proposes the narrative as a masculinity in crisis psycho drama. Roger Hopgood has produced fine art digital photography since 1998. The work on this site is a portfolio of three individual series of prints. All of the work is printed out as large format LED digital photographic prints. Although the three series of prints explore different themes they are united by their concern with class and gender identity in the UK. Such concerns are present throughout Roger Hopgood's work.