London Art Tripping - Bill Hopkins

This film is part of a larger psychogeographical project London Art Tripping, for further information go to
www.stewarthomesociety.org/art/trip.htm - this is one of five films connected to the project posted on YouTube. London Art Tripping forms one part of the larger Art Tripping project covering various UK cities made in conjunction with The Power Of Art TV series.

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[Dom9006]

stewarthome - he is very much alive and well, I was having a drink with him only last week.

[stewarthome]

@Dom9006 I heard he died on 6 May 2011 in hospital in London, although I haven't been able to verify this and have no further details right now.

[petermangalore]

Great series Stewart.

[stewarthome]

Glad it is of some use. This is just a skim. Actually putting this video up brought some info about Hopkins that could be put to use with much of the unused footage left over (there are a couple of hours of him)... But to make sense of that would need to shoot some new stuff with other people. Someone asked me recently if Hopkins is still alive, I haven't heard that he'd died but this person seemed to think so...... and I've had no contact with him since doing this, so wouldn't necessarily know.

[okishalee]

I met him various times in the early 90's he gave me a autographed book of the leap he lived in kensington park road , though i dont know where he lives now ,. would be nice to meet him again

[margotdarby]

The Divine and the Decay. Hiding out in Sark.

[stewarthome]

I came across Hopkins when researching my mother's life. She met him working as a hostess at Murray's Club in the early 60s. After I shot this I heard a lot of rumours about Hopkin's sexual proclivities. Later I heard he'd belonged to neo-Nazi political parties from the 50s to now including the NF and BNP. He spoke to me mainly about my mother's take on prostitution, and his art collection. He showed me his Scottie Wilsons & what he said was an unauthenticated Rubens. Bowden is fascist scum.

[stewarthome]

Well according to my stats this is the only video I have that has zero attention, which means people must be coming on with pre-written comments and pasting them in here before it even has time to start up, then leaving. Seems a bit pointless having a conversation around video no one is watching...

[stewarthome]

A link to this was placed in an online Julius Evola discussion group; and being fascists those concerned are anti-Semitic. When I find racist comments I remove them - there is no reasoning with racists, they're irrational. I used Nick Abrahams as my cameraman on this, he's a friend; but it seems these racists aren't able to tell the ethnicity of camera work, which just goes to show how silly their prejudice is. Race is not real, but racism results in people experiencing it as real.