Sculptor, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of Irish/Parsee parentage, who studied for a degree at Middlesex Polytechnic, 1985–8, gaining her master’s from Goldsmiths’ College, 1990–2. In 1993 she won a Barclays Young Artist Award. Mixed exhibitions included Guinness Peat Aviation Awards for Emerging Artists, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 1990; Making People Disappear, Cubitt Street Gallery, and Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, both 1993; and Entwistle, 1996. She had her first solo show at ICA, 1995–6, large structures with opalescent finishes. Hapaska’s favoured medium was fibreglass, flawless surfaces sprayed and polished to perfection. Speed, fantasy and the future were elements in her work. Later solo exhibitions included Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2001, and a new sculptural commission for Peer, 2004.