Carole Hodgson Retrospective

CAROLE HODGSON RETROSPECTIVE

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CAROLE HODGSON RETROSPECTIVE

11 Februar y - 14 March 2015 21 Cor k Street London W1S 3LZ +44 (0)20 7439 7766

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Flowers Gallery is pleased to present a retrospective of works by Carole Hodgson. The exhibition surveys her versatile material range and the personal visual vocabulary with which she describes the awareness and sensation of nature.

For over 40 years, Hodgson has drawn upon the landscape as the central source of inspiration for her work. Her distinctive vision of the natural world, expressed with precision and clarity in her sculpture and drawings, reflects a finely tuned sensitivity to her surroundings.

Bringing together two and three-dimensional works from 1970-2014, the exhibition includes several of Hodgson’s earliest experimentations with polished aluminium, silver-plated copper and plaster from the 1970s; patinated bronze figures from the 1980s; large-scale explorations of lightweight sculptural materials such as cellulose fibre with iron from the 1990s; and a selection of drawings, which she has continued to develop over the entire course of her artistic career.

Hodgson’s lexicon of shapes and motifs derives from the preserved memory of her close, active observations and from discoveries during the process of making. Hodgson’s ‘shape-consciousness’ can be traced back to early fascinations with archaeology and the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome, however it is through the revelations of making that her personal vision has found its true form.

The notion of discovery is central to her work. Her drawings, produced with graphite on paper, are made up from hundreds of individual marks, a process by which Hodgson ‘finds’ the drawing without a predetermined image in mind. Similarly, her process of casting from negative moulds in her sculptural works allows the form to reveal itself over time, throughout the long gestational period of its construction, and in the small chance details disclosed in the final unwrapping.

Hodgson’s work has been described as being”both of the land and of mankind, of its time and timeless.”(Joan Bakewell) Seen during this period in our history, when the environment appears to be constantly under threat, whether through expanding development, environmental change, or natural disaster, Hodgson’s work offers quiet reflection on our innate and vital connection to the land, what we have discovered and what we might yet reveal.

“We seek the stillness of remote places to soothe our panic at global combust. We find in the deep reaches of rock and ravine a balm to modern anxieties. Hodgson’s work both derives from and pays regard to these present sensibilities.”

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Wall I, 2010 Mixed Media, Cellulose Fibre and Pigment 11 x 17 x 7.5 cm 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 3 in

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Fugue I, 1999 Mixed media construction 14 x 23 x 13 cm 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 x 5 1/8 in

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Still Life II, 1997 Cellulose fibre with pigment 9 x 13 x 7 cm 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 2 3/4 in

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Land Barrier, 2006 Patinated bronze 10 x 13.5 x 7.5 cm 4 x 5 1/4 x 3 in

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Crashing, 1989 Bronze 66 x 26 x 40 cm 26 x 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 in Opposite Between Shadow Bronze 43 x 23 x 17 cm 17 x 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in

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Silence, 1992 Bronze 40 x 8 x 8 cm 15 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in Opposite Echo (for Morandi), 1996-98 Bronze with acrylic 34 x 47 x 19 cm 13 x 18 x 7 in

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Voices and Shadows, 1988 Bronze 33 x 25.5 x 38 cm 13 x 10 1/4 x 15 in

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Abstract Form, c. 1966 Silver plated copper 38.5 x 22 x 11 cm 15 1/8 x 8 5/8 x 4 3/8 in

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Aluminium, 1972 Polished Aluminium 21 x 29 x 9 cm 8 1/4 x 11 3/8 x 3 1/2 in

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Arches, 1977 Bronze 14 x 20 x 20 cm 5 1/2 x 8 x 8 in

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Untitled Bronze 4.5 x 15 x 15 cm 2 x 6 x 6 in

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Untitled (landscape) Bronze 9 x 23 x 13 cm 3 3/4 x 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 in

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Barrier, 1997 Bronze 15 x 20 x 56 cm 6 x 8 x 22 1/4 in

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Page 34 standing form, 1999 Mixed media 168 x 35 x 27 cm 66 x 14 x 11 in Page 35 Red Land, 2000 Cellulose fibre with iron powder 170 x 35 x 67 cm 67 x 14 x 26 in

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Momento V, 1999 Cellulose fibre with iron powder 28.5 x 28.5 x 7.5 cm 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 3 in

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Horizontal IV Ceramic 10 x 43 cm 4 x 16 7/8 in Page 40 Horizontal V Ceramic 10.5 x 43 cm 4 1/8 x 16 7/8 in Page 41 Horizontal VI Ceramic 11 x 43 cm 4 3/8 x 16 7/8 in

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Horizontal I, 1998-99 Mixed media 50 x 170 x 14 cm 19 3/4 x 67 x 5 1/2 in

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Off the wall - Burnt Umber, 1998 Mixed media 21 x 76 x 7 cm 8 1/4 x 30 x 2 3/4 in Page 46 Light Map Square II, 2008 Ceramic 22 x 22.5 x 6 cm 8 3/4 x 9 x 2 1/2 in Page 47 Light Map Square III, 2008 Ceramic 21 x 22.5 x 6 cm 8 1/2 x 9 x 2 1/2 in

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Untitled, 1976 Plaster 13 x 12 x 8 cm 5 1/8 x 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in Page 50 Arches, 1977 Plaster 12.5 x 22 x 5 cm 4 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 2 in Page 51 Closing In, 1973 Plaster 10 x 20 x 18 cm 4 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in Page 52 Green Form, 1976 Plaster 14 x 15 x 8 cm 5 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/8 in

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Red Land, 2000 Mixed media on paper 83.5 x 106 cm 33 x 41 3/4 in Page 56 Out of Memories, 1996 Mixed media on paper 37 x 33 cm 14 3/4 x 13 in Page 57 Beyond the Mirror, 1992 Mixed media on paper 48 x 35.5 cm 19 x 14 in Page 58 Silence and Space, 1990 Mixed media on paper 37 x 43 cm 14 3/4 x 17 in Page 59 Distant Dream, 1992 Mixed media on paper 25.5 x 36 cm 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 in

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Before Dark, 1996 Mixed media on paper 28.5 x 21 cm 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in

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Rome, 1982 Mixed media on canvas 45.5 x 64 cm 17 7/8 x 25 1/4 in Page 64 Dark, c. 2002 mixed media with collage 24.5 x 21 cm 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 in Page 65 Winter, 1975 mixed media 38 x 34 cm 15 x 13 3/8 in

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Burnt Hill, 1975 pencil on paper 54 x 79 cm 21 1/4 x 31 1/8 in Page 68 Night, 1974 pencil on paper 84 x 109 cm 33 1/8 x 42 7/8 in Page 69 Hill Farm, 1976 pencil on paper 84 x 109 cm 33 1/8 x 42 7/8 in

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Crashing Between the Clouds and the Water, 1985-86 acrylic and ink on paper 107 x 83 cm 42 1/8 x 32 5/8 in Page 72 Lane, 1979 pencil on paper 72 x 94 cm Page 73 Hill, 1980 pencil and conte on paper 72 x 94 cm Page 74 White Water, 2007-09 mixed media with watercolour 29 x 29 cm 11 3/8 x 11 3/8 in

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ABOUT CAROLE HODGSON Carole Hodgson was born in 1940 in London. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art in 1957/62; at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1962-4; and taught at the Royal College of Art from 1981 to 1986. Her work has been exhibited at Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Edition 91, Basel, Switzerland; Royal Society of British Sculptors, London; Barbican, London; Flowers Gallery London and Los Angeles; and Bloomberg Space, London. Hodgson’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Arts Council of Great Britain; British Council; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Tate Gallery, London; University of London; and private Collections in Europe, USA, Mexico and Australia.

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