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Nicky Hodge - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Nicky Hodge lives and works in London. She has exhibited her paintings, drawings and multimedia works widely over the past 25 years. Nicky Hodge’s current work occupies a completely abstract territory. She mainly works in acrylic on unprimed canvas, working directly and spontaneously without reference to anything specific in the real world. Some of the paintings that emerge out of the process are saturated in watery acrylic that gets poured on and then rubbed away to further expose the surface. 

Nicky Hodge - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Hiss, 2021

Nicky Hodge - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Lick the Glass, 2020

Other works are more layered, using subtle colour and sweeps of minimal gestural marks. All of these muted and mainly monochromatic paintings rely on touch and are indicative of a practice that has developed counter to the more extravagant narrative of expressionism. Further still are paintings that have incorporated materials recycled from her own discarded paintings.

Nicky Hodge - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Sassy, 2021

The surfaces of these collage works are quiet and spare, relying on the subtle texture created by different materials such as filler, spray, ink or a heavier weight canvas. As no two works are particularly similar, often difference becomes a defining factor with works sitting together in contrasting pairs or small groups of varying size. Steeped in an allusive and unsystematic approach, the works draw upon memory and experience and sit somewhere between joyful playfulness and minimalist restraint.

Selected Works

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Hiss

Acrylic on unprimed canvas

(Unframed): 120cm x 100cm 

2021

£2,000

Hiss

Acrylic on unprimed canvas

(Unframed): 120cm x 100cm 

2021

£2,000

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Escort

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500

Escort

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500

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Lick the Glass

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500

Lick the Glass

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500

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Sassy

(Unframed): 80cm x 60cm

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2021

£1,500

Sassy

(Unframed): 80cm x 60cm

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2021

£1,500

Enquire
Hiss

Acrylic on unprimed canvas

(Unframed): 120cm x 100cm 

2021

£2,000
Escort

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500
Lick the Glass

(Unframed): 150cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2020

£2,500
Sassy

(Unframed): 80cm x 60cm

Acrylic on unprimed canvas 

2021

£1,500

Artist's CV

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021     Solo show, Bobinska Brownlee, London

2018     Low Plains Drifter, No Format Gallery, London

2016     Only a moon to soup her, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London

2010     Multistorey, Nunhead Surgery, London

2005     Small Wonder, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London

2001     Plot on the Landscape, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Pulp, curated by Jason Tessier, The Florence Trust, London 

Notes for a landscape, curated by Kate Scrivener, millimetre 02, Kingsgate Project Space, London

A Tiny Bit Of Fire, curated by Robyn Graham, Warbling Collective, 139 Whitfield St, London

Nothing’s gonna change my world, curated by raumwww, gr-und, Wedding, Berlin, Germany

Studio Confetti, curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London

2020

Binary, curated by Karl Bielik & Jonathan Powell, Shift Gallery, Cardiff, Wales and (in 2021) Terrace Gallery, London

Women + Health Lockdown Art exhibition (online)

Long winter show, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales

Way Out, curated by Ludovic Dervillez, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-les-Reims, France

25 Years, curated by Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (online)

Fuzzy Objects, with Janet Currier and Jane Millar, San Mei Gallery, London

New Doggerland, curated by Jane Millar, Thamesside Gallery, London

2019

Six Days in December, curated by Martin Gayford, Thamesside Gallery, London

A Tapered Teardrop, curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London

Of Course I Haven't Forgotten, Warbling Collective, 155A Artists Space, London

We Only Have Fun On Certain Days, Warbling Collective, Stour Space, London

2018

Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent

SFSA Painting Open 2018, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London

Let Me Know Before You Arrive, Warbling Collective, 145 Bethnal Green Rd, London

The Barren Slope, curated by Tom Elliott, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London

Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Graduate Exhibition, Holborn, London

Tomorrow's Daydream, AMP Gallery, Meeting House Lane, London

2017

Osman’s Xmas Bazaar, Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London

Painting Open 2017, Second Floor Studios, No Format Gallery, London

APT Open Studios guest artist, Creekside, Deptford, London

Small World, Manifest, PS Mirabel, Manchester

Creekside Open selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, London

1992–2016

Zeitgeist Summer Show, Bond House, New Cross, London

Suppose an Eyes event, Alpha Nova Futura, Berlin and Chelsea College of Art, London

Marks of Intent, two person show with Helen Booth, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales

Small Memories, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales and Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable, Kent

Close at Hand (co-curated with Gavin Maughfling), Contemporary Art Projects, London

Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London

Talkshow, Lounge, Dalston, London

Deptford X, Open Astra House, New Cross, London

Pride In The House, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London

Sense and Nonsense, Danielle Arnaud, London

Picturesque, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle

Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London

Deptford X, London

Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London

 Round the Garden, Museum of Garden History, London

Bittersweet, Danielle Arnaud, London 

Glass Border (co-curated with Nicky Coutts) Danielle Arnaud, London

Reclaiming the Madonna, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; toured to London & Cardiff

Landschaft, woods near Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany

TRAINING

2013–2015     Post graduate diploma in Fine Art (merit), Goldsmiths College

1992–1993     Advanced Fine Art, Central St Martin’s

1985–1992     BA Hons Fine Art & Critical Studies (2:1), Central St Martin’s

1984–1985     Lina Garnade Foundation course, Southwark, London

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