Professor Charlotte Hodes
Title
Professor of Fine Art
College
London College of Fashion
Email address
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Researcher Research

Biography
Charlotte Hodes’ practice-led research is informed by her experience as a painter. She creates ceramic installations, ceramic vessels, papercut, print and animated film. Her iconography centres on women, depicted as silhouettes, juxtaposed with motifs loaded with female associated references such as the vessel, dress and the home. Her artworks question the traditional position of the female figure as represented in art history, as a decorative motif and as being inextricably linked to the domestic.‘Hodes’ work is about boundaries: the contours of the female nude, generic hierarchies between craft and art, the decorative and the fine arts, the domestic and professional, the body as a singular identity and the multiplicity of selves afforded by technological reproduction’ – Dr. Hannah Westley
Through the process of drawing she creates her own archive of visual imagery. She mediates her work through both hand craft and digital processes. She uses the fragmented and tactile nature of the ‘cut’ and ‘paste’ of collage to embed meaning. The starting point for many of her projects is through primary research into museum collections and archives. This has included projects at:
• The Wallace Collection, London. As Associate Artist, Hodes realised a solo exhibition at the Museum ‘Fragmented Images’
in 2007.
• London College of Fashion Library, archive of pattern templates. ‘Drawing Skirts’, 2008, University of Northumberland,
supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council).
• Spode Museum Trust archive of copper engravings. (‘Dressed in Pattern’, 2014-2016, supported by Arts Council England).
• Victoria Gallery & Museum Special Collections and Archives. (‘The Errant Muse’, 2019, with poet, Deryn Rees-Jones)
Hodes won the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006. She was a selector for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2019. She established the research hub, Fashion Design & Visual Arts Practice at London College of Fashion. The aim of the Hub is to foreground the role of drawing and practice-led research. She conceived and led on Hub projects including;
• a collaboration with the National Gallery ‘Flight: Drawing Interpretations’. https://drawinginterpretations.arts.ac.uk
• a UAL research group, co-led with Professor Eileen Hogan
‘About Face: Concepts of Portraiture’. https://aboutface.arts.ac.uk
Grants and awards
(Figures indicate amount awarded to UAL)
- Arts Council England, The Spode Copper Plate Archive; an exploration, £14,850.00, (2013-2014)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Collaborative Investigation into the role of the Hand Craft and Digital Processes within Creative Practice, £15,392.00, (2007-2008)
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Hodes C. After the Taking of Tea (2019)
- Hodes C, Rees-Jones D. Edward Thomas at Arras: A Response in Word and Image (2018)
- Hodes C. Remember Me: Charlotte Hodes Papercuts & Ceramics (2017)
- Hodes C. Dressed in Pattern (2015)
- Hodes C. Questions of Travel (2015)
- Hodes C, Rees-Jones D. And You, Helen (2014)
- Hodes C. Floating (2013)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Hodes C. Drawing, the Performative Body and the Object (2020)
- Hodes C. The cut and paste of collage (2010)
- Hodes C, Treadaway C. At the cutting edge: an investigation into the role of digital print within creative practice (2009)
- Hodes C. Drawing Skirts (conference paper) (2008)
Show/Exhibition
- Hodes C. Remember Me: Charlotte Hodes Papercuts and Ceramics (2020)
- Hodes C, Rees-Jones D. The Errant Muse (2019)
- Hodes C. Women and Pattern (2018)
- Moloney A, Hodes C. Motive/Motif: artists commemorate the Suffragettes (2018)
- Hodes C, Moloney A. Motive/Motif: Artists commemorate the Suffragettes (2018)
- Hodes C. The Grammar of Ornament (2014)
- Hodes C. Drawing and the Body (2011)
- Hodes C. Closely held secrets (2010)
- Hodes C. Art Toronto (2010)
- Hodes C. 3D 2D: object and illusion in print (2010)
- Hodes C. 3D 2D: object and illusion in print: prints from The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West of England, Bristol (2010)
- Hodes C. Vertigo 2 (2010)
- Hodes C. San Francisco fine art fair (2010)
- Hodes C. Unwrapping the line (2010)
- Hodes C. Inscriptions: drawing, making, thinking (2010)
- Hodes C. Silhouettes and filigree: ceramics and papercuts (2009)
- Hodes C. Eurydice (Glasstress 2009) (2009)
- Hodes C. Inspired by the Wallace Collection, London - ceramics and glass (2009)
- Hodes C. Sofa: the international exhibition of sculpture objects and functional art (2009)
- Hodes C. 40 artists - 80 drawings (2009)
- Hodes C. On view: works on paper (2009)
- Hodes C. When photography and drawing meet fashion (2009)
- Hodes C. Works on paper: a Christmas exhibition (2008)
- Hodes C. Committed to print: an exhibition celebrating digital art (2008)
- Hodes C. Summer exhibition (2008)
- Hodes C. Drawing skirts: solo show (2008)
- Hodes C. 'Silhouette' in Drawing Breath, Jerwood Drawing Prize (2008)
- Hodes C. Totem city (2008)
- Hodes C. Small show, huge talent (2008)
- Hodes C. Fragmented images: papercuts and ceramics (2007)
- Hodes C. Fragmented images: papercuts and ceramics (2007)
- Hodes C. Spirit of liberty (2002)
- Hodes C. Digital surface within fine art practice (2002)
- Hodes C. A dinner service (2001)
Teaching
Current research students
- Maya Finkelstein Amrami, Exploring and creating social media-inspired portraiture in print and textiles, amalgamating selfie images, text and moving-image. (Lead supervisor)
- Katherine Pogson, Deep fashion: craft values as transformative tools to create new relationships with fashion artefacts, and more sustainable futures for consumers and makers in the UK. (Joint supervisor)
- Lucy Russell, WHAT I SEE I OWN? Can fashion/media body images via the process of drawing be re-appropriated to positive effect as part of the creation of a social innovation design tool that can be accessed or shared with groups to question negative body image/s and to (Joint supervisor)
Past research students
- Sarah Horton, Disrupting class and consumption: everyday decoration in fine art practice. (Norwich University of the Arts) (Joint supervisor)
- Hormazd Narielwalla, Patterns as documents and drawings (Joint supervisor)
Subjects
Fine art