Opening Day Artist Talk: Julian Hooper

Join us to celebrate the opening of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi’s exhibition Julian Hooper: The Letter for an artist talk with Julian Hooper.

The Letter brings together ten years of Hooper’s painting and drawing practice, alongside new works, highlighting the importance of process, repetition, variation and surprise. Hooper created his first alphabet painting in 2018 and his idiosyncratic visual language now often draws on letters, numbers and symbols. The Letter includes vitrines of Hooper’s sketchbooks and working drawings, alongside a new foldout alphabet frieze.

Julian Hooper

Born in Auckland, 1966, of mixed English, Hungarian and Tongan heritage, Hooper has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and Australia since 1990. He received a BFA from the University of Auckland 1989, and an MFA from RMIT, Melbourne in 1999. Hooper's works are held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Queensland Art Gallery, Australian Catholic University Art Gallery, and the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.