Pat Hodson

www.pathodson.co.uk

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I make books 3d forms and wall based artworks. I work freely with both techniques and with materials, cutting and layering of paper and synthetic alternatives to paper

I explore the tensions between hand drawn marks with the suggested computer drawn marks, and how hand applied colour – pigment, yarn, crayon or dye – and whether inlaid or overlaid, interacts with the inkjet printed colour. Further marks might be added after printing, by laser cutting, or by piercing and punching – marks which erupt through the paper.

Why books? Since the early 1990’s I have recorded my explorations of materials and of colour within the book form. These began with dye on cloth and paper, later digital image, printed on to experimental substrates, whether inkjet on paper collage or thermal transfer on synthetic, heat fused collage. Within the covers, the coloured dyes and pigments are preserved, protected from inevitable change.

A book might simply record my experience of place or time, or it might be somewhere I can ‘draw out’ a visual idea into a sequence, where each page is a fragment of the whole.

I have been exhibiting since the 1970’s, and internationally from 1992 and was awarded travel Burseries from the Arts council for several of these; China in 1997, Japan in 2002, Finland in 2005 and U.S. In 2007.

Recent exhibitions, in 2021/2022 have been Papier Global 5, Degendorf : Germany

The Third Shanghai international Paper Biennale, China and the Toyota paper exhibition, japan

Work represented in public and private Collections, includes Eureka College, Illinois; The Textile Museum, George Washington University, US (part of the Lloyd T. Cotsen collection); Carmelite Chapel of St Teresa of Avila, Beacon, New York Filac : International collection of Contemporary Artists Books (Marseilles); Neukoln Public Librar. Guiyang Museum, Guizhou, China. Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Finland; British Art Library, V&A;Bath Spa University Library;Leeds University, Brotherton Library

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Exhibition