Nicky Hodge: Small Memories series

A selection of works, oil on board, part of an ongoing series, 7.8 x 6.4cm each, priced individually

About Nicky Hodge

Playing with notions of memory, loss and transience, Nicky Hodge creates paintings of half-remembered landscapes: people isolated on streets, objects remembered from childhood, parts of buildings and planes fading into backgrounds.

Small Memories is an on going series of tiny, fragmentary images that do not permit a fixed reading: the story is there for the viewer to construct. Relying on partial views grasped in passing, these oil paintings on chunky blocks of wood are displayed on a shelf like an incomplete jigsaw or toy soldiers waiting to be moved around. The series of tiny, exquisite paintings are made in 1 ½” deep, hand painted box frames.

Nicky Hodge was born in Birmingham. She studied Fine Art and Critical Studies at Central St Martin’s, graduating in 1992. Confinement, a series of 80 compressed charcoal drawings housed in perspex boxes, was selected for Reclaiming the Madonna, a show that toured to five UK cities in 1994- 95.

Hodge’s paintings were included in the groups shows Outdoors (2006), Sense and Nonsense (2003), Bittersweet (2001) at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, where she also had a solo exhibition in 2001. In 2005 Hodge’s work was selected for Deptford X, and in 2007 she co-curated Close at Hand at Contemporary Art Projects in Hoxton. In 2009 she has shown work in Abergavenny and had an installation of 61 paintings in an artists-run space in Peckham. A former Deputy editor of Make, the women artists magazine and author of two books about art, Hodge works as a Curator of Information and Research for the Government Art Collection.

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