Christopher Hodges
Christopher Hodges is an artist and director of Utopia Art Sydney, a contemporary art gallery in Australia.[1][2]
Artistic career
Hodges studied art at the Alexander Mackie CAE, graduating with a Dip Art (Ed), and first began exhibiting his work in the late 1970s.[3] His first solo exhibition was at Coventry Gallery, Sydney, in 1979, and he has held over 30 solo exhibitions since then.[4]
Over his career, Hodges has worked in painting, drawing, printing, and sculpture.[5] Much of his work, across mediums, has been interested in organic geometry: "I have done a lot of works that use geometry, but at the same time I have done a lot of works with what looks like repeated forms when, in fact, every curve is different. So I guess a kind of organic geometry is actually what I am aiming at, sort of like nature."[3]
Major public sculpture commissions include 'Flower for a Friend' (2010) at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, and 'The White Flower' (2009) commissioned by the Mosman Municipal Council for Hunter Park, Balmoral.[4]
Gallery career
Hodges is the director of Utopia Art Sydney, which he founded in 1988.[6] Utopia Art Sydney is committed to the representation of a small group of Australian and international artists, including leading indigenous artists such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye and members of Papunya Tula Artists such as Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Makinti Napanangka.[7] Over the years, Hodges has written extensively on indigenous Australian art and has consulted for exhibitions such as 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere: Paintings from Utopia'.[8][9]
References
- ^ "Wearing More Than One Hat". artguide.com.au. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ Courtney Kidd, ‘Utopia Art Sydney: representing leading contemporary Australian artists’, Art and Australia, 39.4 (June–August 2002), p598
- ^ a b Anne Sanders, 'Profile: Christopher Hodges', Artist Profile, Issue 22, 2013
- ^ a b "Christoper Hodges | utopia art sydney 2 danks street waterloo". utopiaartsydney.com.au. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ "Christopher Hodges: Drawing in Space". Issuu. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ Frost, Andrew (1999). "Christopher Hodges: Utopian Visions". Australian Art Collector.
- ^ "about the gallery | utopia art sydney 2 danks street waterloo". utopiaartsydney.com.au. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ Hodges, Christopher (1998). 'Alhalkere' in Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Paintings from Utopia. Queensland Art Gallery: Macmillan.
- ^ Hodges, Christopher (2011). "Aboriginal Art: On the Margins no Longer". Meanjin.