pat hodson

 

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

2008 Selected to take part in the Holland Paper Biennale : Netherlands

2007 Surface Design conference Solo exhibition at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center
Kansas City. Selected to give a demonstration, and lead a four day workshop. Award from Arts Council (Lottery fund) towards the exhibition.

2007 Fiberart International 2007
Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, then touring. ‘Book of Shadows” selected

Commission to make a textile for the Lloyd T. Cotsen collection “Textile Traces”

2009 International group Batik Exhibition Textures gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona USA

2006 – 7 ‘Batik Transitions’ From Classic To Contemporary’ : Group Touring exhibition organised by the Batik Guild of Great Britain (Heritage Lottery Funded)
Various venues in UK including Gloucester Museum and Art Gallery, Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

2005
Boston, USA May 19 - june 14 :Massachusetts College of Art (Patrica Doran Gallery )
“Transient Surface” – European Abstraction an exhibition of the work of five European batik Artists (one of the special exhibitions during the World Batik conference)

Helsinki: Finland August. Northern Fibre 6.(wo)man and technology: Selected to participate in an international workshop and related exhibition organised by the Finnish Textile Artists Association.

2004

Belgium Museum of Industrial Archaology and Textiles, Gent : ‘Art in Motion’: group exhibition

Netherlands : Silkmuseum Meliskerke, Middlesburg: Solo exhibition: Workshops were undertaken in Delft and in Zeeland.

Denmark: Surface Design/Tradition and Technology, Aarhus Kunstbygnyng :The project was spread over five days and involved exhibiting work, giving a masterclass and taking part in a symposium which explored links between old and new technology. The paper for the symposium was ‘Layers of Time’. The Masterclass combined combined digital imaging withcollage and traditional textile techniques.

2002
Germany: Hanover Handwerksform: ‘Batik of Change’
Exhibit included resist dyed layered silk books, and digital collage books.

Japan : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to japan and exhibit in a group exhibition in Saitama, at Prefectural museum of Modern Art .

2001/2
Germany: Berlin Galerie im parc: ‘Taktha’; Exhibition. Symposium paper: "Batik in the Digital Age"
The exhibition travelled to Gallery Smend in Koln; and Central Museum of Textiles : Lodz : POLAND.
The exhibition was also preceded by two promotional exhibitions in Berlin: ‘Kunst fordert Kunst’ and ‘Tarien Warna

1999
Belgium International Batik exhibition & Symposium, Ghent: Symposium paper: ‘Art Fabric into books’

1997
China : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to Guiyang Textile Museum, Guizou Province: International Exhibition & Symposium. Symnposium Paper : ‘Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye’

1995 SMALL PIECES FOR EUROPE, a touring exhibition of miniatures curated by the exhibiting group "New Fibre Art" to venues in France, Austria, Spain and Ukraine.

1993
Indonesia Edwins Gallery, Jakarta : International Batik exhibition

1992
China : Guiyang Textile Museum, Guizou Province: Joint English/Chinese Artists Exhibition

LECTURES/SLIDE TALKS summary

2003/4 UK Took part in three Artists and Educators conferences. Talks centred around 'Technology and Tradition'

2003 Denmark Aarhus : Tradition and technology conference : ‘Layers of Time’
2001 Berlin : Batik Symposium : 'Batik in the Digital Age'
1999 Ghent : Batik Symposium : Art Fabric into Books'
1997 China Guizhou : Batik Symposium 'Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye
1992 Batik Guild A.G.M. : Line and Colour

PARTICIPATION in EXHIBITIONS IN UK: 1990 – 2002 Selected list

2004 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield "Genius" group exhibition.

Undertook a major collaborative work with a sound technician, and poet involving using moving image, sound and words - exhibited at various venues in Sheffield

2003 :Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan : Artists "Encounters with New Technology". including a conference for Artists and Educators

2002 :Morley Gallery, London, and Maidstone Museum: Group exhibitions with New fibre Art)

2002 : Bolsover Castle : Site Specific group exhibion with Sheffield Contemporary Artists

1998 : Ruskin Craft Gallery, Sheffield : Sheffield Threads: open Textile exhibition/competition
1995 : Solo exhibition: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
1991 : Sheffield Globe Works. (Sheffield Cultural Festival : group exhibition
1991 : Notts Rufford Craft Centre Group Batik Exhibition.

1990 Sheffield Graves City Art Gallery: Joint Adventures: Artists and Participants of Residencies.(Schools Loan Collection Exhibition)

 

Several Site specific exhibition projects have been undertaken with different Artists groups.
With New fibre Art: Norton Priory ‘Fibre in the open’, an exhibition in a Medieval walled garden. With Sheffield contemporary Artists at the
Bishops House Museum, Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield Botanic Gardens, Midland Railway Station and Bolsover Castle

1970 -1990
Group exhibitions have included Venues in Belfast; and Lancaster. In addition, Mid Pennine Arts Association Gallery, ART GALLERY, Doncaster; MAPPIN ART GALLERY Sheffield; THE PIECE HALL, Halifax; and MAIDSTONE MUSEUM. BRITISH CRAFT CENTRE: London; RUFFORD CRAFT CENTRE : Notts. CITY ART GALLERY, RUSKIN CRAFT GALLERY, Sheffield,; CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE: London; STYAL MILL Textile Museum: VERNON GALLERY, Preston; and GAWTHORPE HALL Textile museum, Lancs.

 

ARTWORKS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, include
Lloyd Cotsen Collection ' Textile Traces' Neukoln Public Library - Art Office Collection; Textile collection, Kiev Art Gallery - Ukraine; Guiyang Museum - Guizhou, China; Various private collections; Sheffield Museums & Galleries trust

MULTI MEDIA COLLABORATIONS: A collaborative multi media work “ Fall of Flower” took place in 2004 with sound technician Jessica Hodson and poet Liz Cashdan. This incorporated moving image, sound and words and was exhibited at various venues in Sheffield. This was followed by ‘Shadows’ (2006) a piece inspired by autograph albums kept by a stewardess on the Transatlantic liners in the 1930’s. In both works I created the image sequence and collaborated on productionA new collaboration 'Healing' is planned for 2008 and will be exhibited at Norton Priory, Runcorn

VISUALS IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING
2003 : Batik : New directions (Noel Dyrenforth)
2000 : 'Textiel Plus' (Holland) Article/visuals about new work. (Written by Else Van Baale).
1997 : ’The craft of Handmade paper’ by Jon Plowman
1996 : "ARTBibliographies Modern" detailing my Artists books
1995 : Visual included in "International Textiles" (Published by Calman and King) and " The Art and Craft of Fabric Decoration" by Juliet Bawden
1994 : Visual included in "Textiles: Multi cultural Traditions" by Spyrou/Singer
1993 : Visuals and Dyed paper pieces for "Real Art" ; a limited edition Visual Art Publication.

ARTISTS UNIQUE BOOKS, COLLABORATIONS AND EDITIONS
Unique Books : A good many of my pieces, in collage and in Dye, have been formed as books. E.g. Pandoras box mood blue, and Mood Cyan are visual stories, which combine the real, and the illusory, in both batik process, and in Digital process.
‘Out of Darkness’, A visual story which exists both in electronic form, and as a tactile piece in which I explored the idea of the inevitability of evolutionary change.

Editions have included
A time of Roses : an edition o 25 copies. A Dyeing Art : a limited edition book of 100 copies, written, to accompany a solo exhibition of the same name. An explanation in text and visuals :why use dye. Black Flame : A facsimile book.

Book Collaboratations with the poet Liz Cashdan, consist of three handmade books which combine visual and textual.

Blueness : edition 100 : a fold book of silk and paper construction
Waterfall : 45 made
Flotsam : Four made

TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS
At present I ama part time lecturer at the Sheffield College, teaching Textiles, Digital imaging and Bookarts. Over thirty years I have undertaken many demonstrations, workshops and residencies with schools, and with private groups.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Born in UK; lives and works in Sheffield.

Liverpool College of Art and Design ( Now John Moors University)

(1964-7) DIP. A.D FINE ART
(1963-4) DIPLOMA IN FOUNDATION STUDIES