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CHARLOTTE HODES: DRAWING SKIRTS NEW PAPERCUTS
18 APRIL – 30 MAY 2008
It was almost inevitable that Charlotte Hodes, who has worked with ceramics as a counterpoint to her paintings for nearly a decade, should find herself appointed the Wallace Collection’s first Associate Artist, for the last two years.
Drawn to the collection’s 18th century paintings and particularly the Sèvres porcelain vases with their wild Rococo sculptural elements, Hodes’ synthesis of the fine and decorative arts reveals how exciting these works of ‘utility and ornament’ are, and how well they lend themselves to modern reinterpretationthrough her own intricately designed ceramics and papercuts.
Although she continues to use art historical references, her current exhibition of figurative silhouettes and motifs, based on the dressmaker’s paper patterns, reveals her combined technical and artistic skills to produce works of considerable scale and invention using the scalpel blade as the equivalent of the fine line of a pencil.
Charlotte Hodes is the 2006 winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, was Artist in Residence at the Wallace Collection, London from 2005 – 2007 and is currently Senior Research Fellow in Drawing and the London College of Fashion.
© Charlotte Hodes, From the series Fêtes Galantes. Fête Galante I, 2006, digitally manipulated drawing, inkjet & collage, 130 x 91cm
Courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art, London
Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm. Admission free. Closed Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 5 and 26 May.
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