Gregory Hodge Every Day

Every Day is a new body of work by Gregory Hodge made during his recent Denise Hickey Memorial Studio residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris – a prize awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The series is a continuation of Hodge’s interest in the history of painting. He builds upon new ideas around the process of collage as a form and representation of the re-applying and re-contextualising of materials.

ARTIST STATEMENTThe recent work made during my residency at the Cité internationale des arts Paris is the result of ongoing research into the combination of abstraction and illusionistic painting.

In a new series, gestural marks hover above subtle suggestions to woven narratives of figures, still lives and invented interior spaces. Veiled by painterly gestures, protruding limbs, folded drapery and architectural details all play out in a painted space that appears like woven fabric.

In other recent work developed during the residency, I have focused more acutely on the edges of paintings and have adapted new approaches to painted grounds that create an illusion to woven textiles. Painted grounds are built up in subtle layers of gel and impasto which result in ribbed, uneven lips along the boundaries of the paintings. These exaggerated limits extend beyond the confines of the rectangular supports, akin to the uneven, organic edges of a piece of fabric or carpet.

These new works come out of a period of research focussing on textiles and illusionistic painting in the collections of among others, the department of decorative arts in the Louvre, Château de Fontainebleau and the Gobelins tapestry workshop.

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A Conversation, 2020acrylic on canvas162 x 130cm

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Gesture and Interior, 2020acrylic on canvas

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Limelight, 2020acrylic on canvas162 x 130cm

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Swimmers, 2020acrylic on canvas

130 x 97cm

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Cloak, 2020acrylic on canvas130 x 97cm

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On the Road, 2020acrylic on canvas

130 x 97cm

On the Road (detail)

Mask, 2020acrylic on canvas130 x 97cm

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River, 2020acrylic on canvas

130 x 97cm

River (detail)

Curious, 2020acrylic on canvas130 x 97cm

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Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

Curl, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 90cm

Body, 2020acrylic on canvas

70 x 90cm

Curtain, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 90cm

Stacks, 2020acrylic on canvas90 x 70cm

Drag, 2020acrylic on canvas

90 x 70cm

Turn, 202050 x 40 cmacrylic on canvas

Field, 2020acrylic on canvas

50 x 40 cm

ADDITIONAL WORKSADDITIONAL WORKS

Never Look Back, 2019acrylic on canvas198 x 152.4 cm

Myth, 2019acrylic on canvas198 x 152.4 cm

Understudy, 2019acrylic on canvas198 x 152.4 cm

Skins, 2019acrylic on canvas198 x 152.4 cm

Gregory Hodgeb. 1982, Sydney; lives and works South Coast NSW

Gregory Hodge constructs illusionary abstractions from a mélange of source material including painted abstract motifs on drafting film, coloured paper and masking tape, before rendering these collages in paint. Using complex and systematic technical processes such as trompe-l’oeil, cast shadows and manipulating paints’ translucent and opaque qualities, the paintings playfully mimic the physical fragility and provisional nature of the source material.

This visual trickery within the abstract picture space presents the viewer with multiple visual experiences. Surface and materiality become imaginative entry points yielding potential clues as traces of the process are tacitly signalled via the shadows and illusion of collage. Hodge’s work exudes a sense of the material presence of painting via a concern with light, colour and surface, while calling to mind the perceptual associations of vision via the illusionistic picture space. The paintings blur the boundaries between two and three dimensionality and playfully explore the space between image and reality, representation and abstraction.

Hodge has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions within Australia. Recent solo exhibitions include Signs, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2017); Spectator and the Pit, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore (2017); Paintings, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016); Collages, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2015); and A Fabled Gesture, Canberra Contemporary Artspace (2015). He also participated in the exhibitions Tricking the eye– contemporary trompe l’oeil, Geelong Gallery, Victoria (2016); Fine Arts March Mostra, British School at Rome, Italy (2015); Mind the Gap, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (2014); Clean Living, Contemporary Art Space, Tasmania (2012); and Word of Mouth, Canberra Museum and Gallery (2012). Hodge was a finalist in the Geelong Art Prize (2018); Sir John Sulman Prize (2018); Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2013) and Blake Prize (2013). His work has also been presented in international art fairs including Art Basel Hong Kong(2018); Art Stage Singapore (2017) and Art Stage Jakarta (2016).

Gregory Hodge

b. 1982, Sydney; lives and works South Coast NSW

EDUCATION2012 PhD Candidate Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts) Australian National University Canberra School of Art2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (1st Class) Australian National University Canberra School of Art

AWARDS AND PRIZES2018 Art Gallery of New South Wales Denise Hickey Memorial Studio residency2018 Geelong Art Prize, Finalist2018 Sir John Sulman Prize, Finalist2014 Australia Council Residency, The British School, Rome, Italy2014 Fishers Ghost Art Prize Campbeltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Finalist2013 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, finalist2013 Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney, Emerging Artist Award2013 Blake Prize, Galleries UNSW, COFA, Sydney, finalist2012 Australian Post Graduate Award2011 Studio Residency Basso-Berlin Germany2010 Finalist Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship AGNSW2005 ACT Chief Ministers Emerging Artist Award2005 EAAS Hawker College Artist in Residence Award2005 EAAS M16 Studio Residency Award

COLLECTIONSArtbankNational Gallery of Australia

ACT Chief Ministers CollectionMurray Darling Basin CommissionWollongong Art GalleryPrivate Collections Australia and Overseas

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2020 Every Day, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2019 Fictions, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2017 Signs, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2017 Spectator and the Pit, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore2016 Paintings, Bus Projects, Melbourne2015 Collages, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2015 A Fabled Gesture, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT 2014 Unfolding, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2013 Slide, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2013 Introduction (with Clare Thackway) Firstdraft, Sydney2012 Monsoon Crossing, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne2011 Universe, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne2010 Spinning Tops, Firstdraft, Sydney2010 City Dwellers, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney2006 A Place for Gravity, M16 Artspace, Canberra

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2019 Brisbane Brief, Festival House, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane2019 Remembrance, The American Club, Singapore2019 Annual Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2018 Melbourne Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf, Southbank Arts Precinct, Melbourne2018 Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China2018 Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia

2017 Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia2017 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore2016 Tricking the eye – contemporary trompe l’oeil, Geelong Gallery, Victoria2016 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2016 10 Year Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2016 Art Stage Jakarta, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, Indonesia2015 Right Here, Right Now, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney 2015 Fine Arts March Mostra, British School at Rome, Italy2015 Ten Year Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2014 Mind the Gap, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney2014 SSFA14, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2013 Art on Paper Prize, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Hazelhurst2013 Rumble, Wellington St Projects, Sydney2013 SSFA13, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2012 Model Citizens, New Acton Arts Festival, Canberra2012 You Give Good Colour, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne2012 Clean Living, Contemporary Art Space Tasmania (CAST), Hobart2012 Word of Mouth, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra2011 Introduction, Basso, Berlin Germany2011 The Kids Are Alright, Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney2011 Your Welcome, Melbourne Art Rooms, Melbourne2011 Things we Denote to Keep, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston2010 This Way Up, ANCA Art Space & ANU School of Art, Canberra2010 Positive/Negative, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

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