Rhiannon Hopley is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist and curator. Working in the mediums of photography, moving image, and installation, Hopley explores the abstraction and stillness of time and place, considering our connection with placemaking, identity and the relationship between nature, the urban landscape, and the human condition.
Hopley was awarded First Prize in photography for the Gosford Art Prize in 2013 and was commended for the main prize in 2015. She was selected as a finalist for various awards, including Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2022, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2021 and 2013, Hidden Rookwood 2018, Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 2018, North Sydney Art Prize 2017 and The 39th Alice Prize 2016.
Her work has exhibited at Art Fairs and Festivals both nationally and internationally, including JIPFest – Indonesia Photo Festival 2024, Dia Los Muertos Festival, London 2024 and 2019, Midnight Rice Festival, Thailand 2023, Sydney Fringe Festival 2022 and 2019, Queer – A Celebration of Art and Activism, Nepal 2021, DENFair Melbourne 2017 and was selected to exhibit with .M Contemporary for their exhibition ‘No Place Like Home’, for the 2015 Australasia’s International Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary.
In 2019, she was selected for Micro Galleries International Artist Collective and became the Creative Lead and Digital Director for Project/Forward. A global moving image projection festival that began in 2020 and has since screened across 24 countries; Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Finland, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Trinidad and the USA. The festival has featured her work alongside over 80 international artists.
Recently returning from two overseas residencies in 2024, a community-engaged residency, The Good Lab in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which made the Museum for the U.N. top 10 Culture for Impact 2024 list, and The Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition Residency, circumnavigating the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle.
Her work is held in the National Library of Australia, the Australian Contemporary Publication Collection, and private collections in Australia, Canada, France, Thailand, and the USA.
