Guns. Beautifully crafted objects that are collected and admired. Deliberate killing machines. Pointing a gun is a deadly gesture, an extension of the arm with lethal intent.

At first sight Hoppens Art Guns look as though they would shoot, maim or kill you. But they are made of harmless junk. Barrels made of bike frames or old pipes. Stocks fashioned out of armchairs, rocking horse legs. Triggers toyed with for years on window frames, rim locks, hinges, rabbit traps and ivory toothbrushes.

“I am making light of the ideas surrounding a very powerful and potent image.” Trevor Hoppen

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