Professor Charlotte Hodes

Biography

Charlotte Hodes’ practice-led research is informed by her experience as a painter. She creates ceramic installations, ceramic vessels, papercut, print and animated film. Her iconography centres on women, depicted as silhouettes, juxtaposed with motifs loaded with female associated references such as the vessel, dress and the home. Her artworks question the traditional position of the female figure as represented in art history, as a decorative motif and as being inextricably linked to the domestic.

‘Hodes’ work is about boundaries: the contours of the female nude, generic hierarchies between craft and art, the decorative and the fine arts, the domestic and professional, the body as a singular identity and the multiplicity of selves afforded by technological reproduction’ – Dr. Hannah Westley

Through the process of drawing she creates her own archive of visual imagery. She mediates her work through both hand craft and digital processes. She uses the fragmented and tactile nature of the ‘cut’ and ‘paste’ of collage to embed meaning. The starting point for many of her projects is through primary research within museum collections and archives. This has included projects at:
• Wallace Collection, London. Associate Artist, 2005-2007 & solo exhibition ‘Fragmented Images’ 2007, supported by ACE &AHRC.
• London College of Fashion Library, archive of pattern templates. ‘Drawing Skirts’, 2008, University of Northumberland,
supported by AHRC.
• Spode Museum Trust archive of copper engravings. ‘Dressed in Pattern’, 2014-2016, supported by ACE.
• Victoria Gallery & Museum & Special Collections and Archives, ‘The Errant Muse’, 2019, with poet, Deryn Rees-Jones.
• Ariana Museum, Geneva 'Conversations en Plein Air' 2023-24.

Hodes won the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006. She was a selector for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2019 and is a member of the British Academy Art Committee. She was instrumental in foregrounding drawing and practice research at LCF and UAL.
LCF, UAL projects include:
• Motive/Motif: Artists Commemorate the Suffragettes, 2018
• ‘About Face: Concepts of Portraiture’ a UAL research group, co-led with Professor Eileen Hogan.

Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Conversations en Plein Air Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
2023 Conversations en Plein Air Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 Remember Me National Centre for Craft & Design (HUB) Sleaford, UK
2019 The Errant Muse with poet, Deryn Rees-Jones, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
After the Taking of Tea Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Wales
New Artworks Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France
2018 Charlotte Hodes: Women & Pattern Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
2017 Remember Me Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
2016 Dressed in Pattern jaggedart & Circus, Marylebone, London 2015 Silhouettes and Vessels; papercuts & ceramics Harris Lindsay, London
2014 The Grammar of Ornament: Papercuts & Ceramics jaggedart, & Women’ Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2012 Ceramics and Papercuts Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris
2009 Silhouettes and Filigree Marlborough Fine Art London
2008 Drawing Skirts Baring Wing, University Gallery, University of Northumbria
2008 Fragmented Images a selection of works, Wallner Gallery, Nottingham
2007 Fragmented Images: New Artworks The Wallace Collection, London
2006 New Ceramic Works and Collages Flow Gallery, London solo show
Fragmented Histories Galerie 88, Kolkata, India
2001 Fragmented Histories Quay Art, Yorkshire Arts, Hull
1999 Surfing History Eagle Gallery, London
1997 Pattern in Painting City Museum & Art Gallery, Staffordshire
1993 Figurines Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery

Group Exhibitions:
2023 Motive/Motif: Artists Commemorate the Suffragettes Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales (co-curator & exhibitor)
The Print Studio, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Collect Crafts Council, Somerset House, London (with jaggedart)
Pop and Pottery Wolverhampton Art Gallery (curated by Nick Duxbury)
2022 Tea Stories - musings on tea and table artifacts jaggedart, London London Art Fair 2022,
Business Design Centre, London
Collect Crafts Council, Somerset House, London (with jaggedart)
2021 Dreams and Desires jaggedart, London
Crafting a Difference Argentine Ambassador's Official Residence, London
Figurative Art Now The Mall Galleries, London
The Collection jaggedart, London
Crafting a Difference SoShiro, London
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London
Artefact Fair London with jaggedart
Collect Crafts Council, Somerset House, London (with jaggedart)
2020 Most Admirably Improved by Art Hestercombe, Somerset (3-person, curated by Tim Martin)
Unbreakable: Women in Glass Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Murano, Italy
Blue & White Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford, UK
100 Years / 100 Women The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
Collect Somerset House, (with jaggedart, London)
2019 Art, Form & Function Joanna Bird, London
Pairings jaggedart, London
Tea Journey:From the mountains to the Table curated by Antonia Harrison, Compton Verney
Motive/Motif: Artists Commemorate the Suffragettes Vestry House Museum, London (co-curator & exhibitor)
2018 Cornucopia Gavagan Art, Settle, Yorkshire
Rodmarton ‘Re-Imagined’ Rodmarton Manor & Gardens (curated by Charlotte Abrahams)
BRAFA Art Fair Brussels (with Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris)
Collect Saatchi Gallery London (with jaggedart, London)
2017 Global Matrix IV International Print exhibition, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
2016 Papercuts at Clara Scremini Gallery ( 2 person)
2015 British Ceramic Biennial Staffordshire ( commissioned installation)
2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize Jerwood Gallery, London & UK tour
Collect: International Art Fair for the Contemporary Object Saatchi Collection
2013 Glasstress: White Light / White Heat 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art & Glass, Murano & Wallace Collection London
Re-found Jagged Art, London (3-person)
Contemporary Show Harris Lindsay, London
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition Kings Place Gallery, London
Derwent Drawing Prize inaugural exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
ING Discerning Eye Invited artist, Mall Galleries, London
Flight: Drawing Interpretations Friday Late, National Gallery & website (Instigator & lead)
2012 Kith and Kin National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, Sunderland
Exhibition at No.10 Downing Street curated by Janice Blackburn OBE
2011 40 Artists- 80 Drawings Burton Museum & Art Gallery, Devon
Now & Then: Contemporary and Historical Art Objects Harris Lindsay Gallery, London
Block Party: Exploring Contemporary Pattern Cutting Crafts Council Touring
Glasstress Stockholm Millesgården Stockholm, Sweden
Maastricht Art Fair with Adrian Sassoon
Drawing & the Body KG52 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
(Instigator, curator & participant)
2010 Art Fair for 21st Century Art Cologne, Germany
Closely Held Secrets Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
Vertigo II Venice Projects, Venice (4-person)
Inscriptions: Thinking/Drawing/Making Jerwood Visual Arts London (3-person)
2009 Glasstress Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti 53rd International Venice Biennale
Contemporary Drawings 40 - 40 Drawings a cabinet display , V&A
Inspired by the Wallace Collection Adrian Sassoon, ICF, London
40 Artists- 80 Drawings The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire, UK
Works on Paper Marlborough Fine Art
Sofa New York, Glass works with Berengo Studios
2008 Committed to Print London Print Studio (Centre for Fine Print Research UWE)
Summer Show Marlborough Fine Art
Totem City World Economic Forum ( with Berengo Studio Murano) Venice2007 Works on Paper Marlborough Fine Art
Drawing Breath RWA & Robert Gorden University Scotland
Committed to Print RWA, Bristol
Sofa Chicago, USA with Berengo Studios, Murano, Venice
2006 Jerwood Drawing Prize Jerwood Space London
Cartoon, COllage and the Decorative Motif, Eagle Gallery London
2005 40 Artists- 40 Drawings The Drawing Gallery, London
Hibrida II Print Exhibition Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Spirit of Liberty Liberty, London (commissioned works)
Collect Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, V&A
2004 Altered Images, Digital Interpretations inspired by G. Cartlidge’s Portrait Tiles Potteries Museum, Staffordshire in collaboration with Centre For Fine Art Print University of West of England
Tea Party, A Celebration of 25 YEars of Crafts Council Retail, Crafts Council and Dressing For Dinner, a celebration of Crafts Council retail at the V&A
Works on Paper Eagle Gallery
2003 Somewhere Totally Else - European Design Biennial Design Museum, London
Waste to Taste Sotheby’s curated by Janice Blackburn
The Vitrified Image: International Ceramic Invitational Hyde Gallery, Grossmont, College, California, USA
2002 Digital Responses - cacophony, a cabinet of vases V&A, London 2 person
2001 Retroperspective III Eagle Gallery, (2-person)
Form & Transfer-Printed Ceramics Drumcroon Art Centre, Wigan
The Plate Show Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Graphic Work Eagle Gallery
1999 Computers and Printmaking Birmingham City Museums & Art Gallery