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An exhibition of sculpture by Christopher Hodges

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30 August - 20 September, 2014

© Utopia Art Sydney

Christopher Hodges

Balance

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A Crooked Man, 2014, painted steel, 200.8 x 60 x 39cm

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Mona Lisa, 2014, painted steel, 200.8 x 60 x 39cm

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Black Swan, 2014, painted steel, 200.8 x 94.5 x 48cm

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Tiny Dancer, 2014, painted steel, 200.3 x 18 x 15.3cm

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Ingénue, 2014, stainless steel, 245 x 15 x 10cm

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The Cutter, 2014, stainless steel, 288.8 x 50 x 32cm

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Shift, 2014, stainless steel, 320.8 x 50 x 40cm

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Act Three, 2014, stainless steel, 200 x 80 x 43.5cm

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An Open Book, 2014, stainless steel, 186.5 x 53.5 x 30cm

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Gemini, 2014, stainless steel, 304 x 240 x 240cm

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Gemini, 2014, stainless steel, 304 x 240 x 240cm

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Experimenting…I hung the moon on variousbranches of the pine

- Hokushi

What makes a sculpture different from a painting? A simple question, perhaps… but it is one that goes to the heart of the modernist project and much that has come after. Well, you might say, a sculpture has volume whilst a painting is flat. A sculpture sits in space; it can be bumped into and walked around. A painting creates the illusion of space; it does so within the specific confines of a rectangle or square, usually hung upon a wall…

As both a sculptor and painter, Christopher Hodges has always been interested in these distinctions, how-ever fickle, and is well aware of the different tricks that each trade depends upon. Across the work in ‘Balance’, it could be argued that painterly devices become fodder for sculptural form, and vice versa. More and more, Hodges has honed the science of proportion, of balance, of symmetry, in the pursuit of essential forms that “can speak freely and truly”.

As in much of Hodges’ sculpture, the majority of works in this exhibition are “flat”. In other words, they are three-dimensional planes. Viewed from the side, thin, climbing lines threaten to disappear altogether. Viewed from front on, some appear as silhouettes or shadows – black shapes against white walls. Others, in stainless steel, have an uncanny sense of depth built up out of layer upon layer of shimmering marks made with an angle grinder. These sculptures con-stantly shift with changing light, are of light – the yang of the black sculptures’ dimensionless yin.

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Tiny Dancer and Ingénue

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Garden, 2013, painted steel, 217 x 224 x 49cm

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Together, these forms seem to carve up space: as much about the spaces between as the things in themselves. It’s not surprising, then, that Hodges will often refer to his sculpture as ‘cut-outs’, a reference to Matisse’s paper collages, but also because they are ‘cut-out’ of steel, just as the final steel forms cut into air.

Historically, many of Hodges’ sculptural works have retained a sense of the hand-drawn line, translated into three-dimensions. These sculptures are “actually a direct translation of paintings into space, the line into space…. I can do a freehand drawing of a line and the laser will make that same line in hard steel for me.” For instance, the looping lines of sculptures from the late 1990s register a gesture, marked first on a piece of paper. Whilst some have steel lines loop-ing over and behind each other, others remain per-fectly flat, depth denied at the points of intersection.

As Hodges’ visual language has evolved his forms have continued to refine, the gestural merging with a precise, but organic geometry – loop becoming curve becoming the straight edges and sharp an-gles of this current exhibition. The painterly emerges in other ways – coloured light bouncing onto walls, shimmer of stainless steel.

As his work progresses Hodges is always building upon what he has done before, seeing where famil-iar forms might lead him. To take a very literal exam-ple, the 2013 sculpture ‘Crow’, precursor to this most recent body of work, was constructed out of the pieces of steel left over from ‘Garden’ (pictured left), a large-scale cut-out playing angular edges against the curvilinear lines of a flower. In such works, the relationship between positive and negative space,

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figure and ground, is paramount – that which is there and that which has been taken away. As Hodges says, “I’ve often found that the bits you cut off are just as interesting as the bits that are left behind. I have used found objects in the past, so it’s not com-pletely new, but in the last few years it’s been more purposeful.”

Beginning with remnants, Hodges began a series of sculptures that are eminently traceable to their origins in a sheet of steel. For instance, the three sculptures ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘Crooked Man’ and ‘Black Swan’ were all made from the same sheet, and a single shape repeated. Yet, each form has a distinct character, an anthropomorphic presence. Cer-tainly, across all of the sculpture in this show, there is a strong sense of the body in space – standing, leaning, threatening to fall, each work performing a delicate balancing act around its centre of gravity.

The painted black pieces in particular, resonate with Hodges’ work from the 1980s featuring the silhou-etted figure of a (remarkably familiar!) man. In paint-ings, the figure would emerge from a deep space of layered, gestural washes. In other pieces, the figure would detach itself from the picture plane, to be found perched in windows or leaning against walls. At once corporeal and of shadows - the allure of the silhouette is its ambiguity:

The figure could be waving at you or waving good-bye, it could be moving forward or back-ward. You have no idea whether it’s looking at you. I like that duality and I think it applies to these recent sculptures as well. If you look at them from the side, they are almost not there…

These latest forms could be many things and can be read in multiple ways – painting and sculpture, flat and voluminous, light and dark, straight and

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Hodges’ studio, c. 1988

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Hodges’ studio, 2014

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crooked, organic and geometric, man and ma-chine. But in the end they are nothing but them-selves – line, corner, angle, shape. It is this insistence on a direct visual language that makes Hodges’ work so powerful.

It should come as no surprise that Hodges put this idea rather well himself, in an essay from the late 1990s on indigenous Australian art:1

When confronting any non-representational work of art our conscious mind attempts a trans-lation of the signs and symbols to seek mean-ing. To limit ourselves to this simple translation is akin to literally translating each word in a poem from a foreign language. It is unconsciously that these works have their most profound effect, for beyond all the pragmatic references there is a direct visual statement being offered.

My challenge has been to put words to things that belie them. “If my sculptures were poems they would be Haikus”, Hodges explained to me one afternoon. A handful of letters, a precise arrangement of syl-lables – Hodges’ work, too, draws upon a kind of syntax – forms placed in such a way that you might say they just “look right”.

Line, angle, shape – letter, word, phrase. What could be simpler, or more complicated? The trick, of course, is the appearance of simplicity: a sculpture rising effortlessly from its base, inhabiting a space in such a way that it appears inevitable – a homecom-ing.

Chloe Watson, 2014

1 In his parallel career as director of Utopia Art Sydney, Christopher has been a great advocate of, and friend to, many artists, both indigenous and non-indigenous. His belief in universal visual forms as a way of com-municating across cultures has informed both aspects of his life.

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Born Sydney, Australia 1954

Solo Exhibitions

2014 ‘Balance’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2013 ‘Something from Nothing’, The Depot Gallery, NSW2012 ‘Paper: 1988 – 2012’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2010 ‘Curve’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2008 ‘Christopher Hodges’, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW2007 ‘Totems’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2006 ‘Zinc’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2003 ‘On Reflection’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2001 ‘Intersection’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2000 ‘Painted Sculpture’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1999 ‘New Lines’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1997 ‘form & substance’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘form & substance II’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD1995 ‘Loose’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1994 ‘New Relations’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD1993 ‘New Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1992 ‘Abstract’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1991 ‘Prints’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1990 ‘A Sense of Place - New York and Sydney Paintings’,

Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1989 ‘Space-Man’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1988 Installation, Loren Bertrond Gallery, Paris, FRANCE1987 ‘The Edge’, Milburn + Arte, Sydney, NSW1986 Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD1985 Coventry, Sydney, NSW Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD1984 Coventry, Sydney, NSW Arts Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Trophy Room’, Coventry, Sydney, NSW 1979-1983 Coventry, Sydney, NSW

Group Exhibitions

2014 ‘Sculpture City’, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Artist – Book’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Abstraction’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2013 ‘Birdbath’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘in (Two) art: The Agapitos/Wilson Annual’, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW; Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, VIC

‘Collector’s Space’, CASSydney, NSW (part of Art Month Sydney) ‘The Salon’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Angus Nivison & Friends: Christopher Hodges, Helen

Eager & John R. Walker’, Walcha Gallery of Art, NSW

‘No Boundaries’, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, VIC ‘Collective Identity(ies): This is that time’, Lake

Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW ‘Maximus Minimus: The 18th Annual 6x6x6 Inch

Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, NSW2012 ‘Repertoire’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Abstraction’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Ground Up – A Fundraising Exhibition’, Damien Minton Gallery Annex, NSW ‘The University of Western Sydney Sculpture Award’, Campbelltown Campus, NSW ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC

‘Art for Humanity: Painting and Jewellery for the Australian Red Cross’, Depot Gallery, NSW‘paperworks,’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘in (Two) art: The Agapitos/Wilson Annual’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, NSW; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW‘Going Gaga with Dada: A dedication to spontaneity, chaos, innovation and nonsense’, Brenda May Gallery, NSW‘Defiance Sculpture Park at the Gate Gallery’, Wollombi, NSW

2011 ‘Black’, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW ‘5 Easy Pieces’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘Artist Artists’, Benalla Art Gallery, VIC ‘Heads’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘AAA Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Up Close and Personal: works from the collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW‘Prints from the Griffith studio: 1978 – 2011’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW

Christopher HodgesBiography

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2010 ‘Paper’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC ‘Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council

Chambers, NSW ‘Silent Spaces’ Macquarie University Art Gallery,

NSW ‘in [two] art’, the Agapitos/Wilson Annual, Maitland

Regional Art Gallery, NSW ‘KIAF 2010, Korean International Art Fair’, COEX,

Seoul, Korea2009 ‘pinned & framed’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘small & wall’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Winter Brooches 2009’, Studio 20/17, Sydney, NSW ‘The 23 Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition’, New

England Regional Art Museum, NSW ‘KIAF 2009, Korean International Art Fair’, CO-EX,

Seoul, Korea2008 ‘Public Sculpture’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2008’, Royal Exhibition Building,

VIC ‘Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council

Chambers, NSW Brenda May Gallery, NSW2007 ‘Ex Libris – Bookplates from our Collections’, State

Library of Queensland, QLD ‘Turning 20’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2006 ‘University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture

Award 2006’, McCarthur Campus, Sydney, NSW‘Melbourne Art Fair 2006’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC‘Sculpture 2006 - Applied Arts - Form & Function’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘Bits and Pieces - abstract art’, Utopia Art Sydney,

NSW2005 ‘from big things little things grow’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Art & About’, AMP Centre, Sydney, NSW

‘Art & About - Open Gallery’, George, Park, Macquarie, Elizabeth, College and Alfred Streets, Kings Cross & Taylor Square, Sydney, NSW

‘National Small Sculpture Prize’, Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, NSW

‘Sydney v Melbourne’, Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC ‘10th Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, The Sofitel Wentworth Exhibition, Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney, NSW

‘Museum II’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Significant Objects - Sculpture 2005’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Ideas 2005’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW ‘Colour in Abstraction’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2004 ‘University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture

Award 2004’ University of Western Sydney, NSW‘Melbourne Art Fair 2004’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC‘National Small Sculpture Prize’, Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, NSW‘Sculpture 2004 - Object, Artefact & Adornment’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Depth of Field – Anamorphosis’, artists explore ‘Absolute Matte’ a new paint from Chroma Australia, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Three Colours – White’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW

2003 ‘Three Colours – Blue’ Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC

‘Sculpture 2003 Gazzard and Hodges’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Sculpture 2003 – Dangerous Toys’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘Celebrate’, BBA Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘Ned Kelly Framed’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘Sculpture in the Vines’, – Harvest Festival in the Hunter Valley, NSW‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Sydney, NSW‘Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize’, Woollahra

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Municipal Council, Double Bay, Sydney, NSW2002 ‘Birthday Show’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘New Objects/New Things’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘The Year In Review’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Sculpture By the Sea’, Bondi, Sydney, NSW‘Redlands Westpac Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery,

Sydney, NSW‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC ‘Sculpture in the City’, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW‘Solstice’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Sculpture from the Sea’, Campbelltown City

Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW‘Lines II’, Fireworks Gallery, QLD

‘Sculpture 2002’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2001 ‘Surface Tension’, Mornington Peninsula Regional

Gallery, VIC‘Sculpture in the City’, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW‘The Hutchins Art Prize’, The Long Gallery,

Salamanca Place, Hobart, TAS‘Museum’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Woollahra Sculpture Prize’, Wollahra Council

Chambers, Sydney, NSW‘8th International Works on Paper Fair’, Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW

2000 ‘The 2000 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

‘Melbourne Art Fair 2000’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC

‘Reconciliation Prize, 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award 2000’, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT

‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA ‘Lindesay 2000’ Exhibition, Lindesay House, Sydney, NSW ‘Lines’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD1999 ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Sydney, NSW ‘Pride of Place: the CS Energy Gift & City of Ipswich

Collection’, Ipswich, QLD ‘Silver: 25th anniversary exhibition College of Fine

Arts- Past Faculty’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery and

Studio Block, College of Fine Arts, NSW ‘New Sculpture 1999’, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW1998 ‘Three Sculptors’, Neil Taylor, Marea Gazzard,

Christopher Hodges, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Sydney, NSW

‘Toys by Artists’, The University of Newcastle, NSW ‘1998 National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC ‘Primary Colours: Blue’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW

Symbiosis’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Major Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

1997 ‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD ‘Artists For Tranby’, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, NSW ‘Portraits’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Flagging the Republic’, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW ‘Nineteeninetyseven’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Faces of Hope’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW1996 ‘The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc. Westpac Art Auction’, Sydney, NSW

‘Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC

‘Paperwork’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘new paint new work’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Kunst Rai’, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS ‘Works on Paper’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD ‘The Gesture’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman Galleries; New England Regional Art Museum; touring exhibition, NSW

‘Contemporary Australian Abstraction’, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC1995 ‘Ironsides’, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW ‘Pathways’, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD ‘It’s About Time’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW ‘Works On Paper’, Utopia Art Sydney. NSW

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International Works on Paper Fair, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW ‘1995’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Obsession’, Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW1994 ‘ACAF 4’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC ‘Aussemblage!’, Auckland City Art Gallery, NZ ‘Commitments’, Artspace, Sydney, NSW ‘Obsession’, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW ‘The Range’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1993 ‘Chandler Coventry a Private Collection’,

Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW ‘After the Field...’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘After the Field...’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW ‘Commitments” Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane, QLD ‘International Works on Paper Fair’ Sydney, NSW1992 ‘A.C.A.F.3’, Melbourne, VIC ‘New Works 1992’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1991 ‘Long Hot Summer’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1990 ‘King of the Mountain’, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD ‘New Year-New Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Balance 1990’, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD ‘Visual Instincts’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD Second Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC ‘Gold Coast Invitational Prize for Sculpture’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD1989 ‘Expressive Space: Sculpture in the ‘80s’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Intimate Drawings’, Coventry, NSW

The Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, VIC

1988 ‘New Art’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT First Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC ‘Peinteurs Aborigines’, Arte Productions, Paris, FRANCE ‘A New Generation’, Australian National Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Ben,Combas,Hodges and Enright’, Milburn and Arte, Sydney, NSW ‘Nature and Technology’, Sanctuary Cove Art

Event, QLD ‘Art Collegium’, UTS, Sydney, NSW1987 `Ten Years On’, The Works Gallery, C.A.I., Sydney, NSW ‘Foire De L’Art Contemporian’, Arte Productions, Nice, FRANCE

‘Les Peinters Australiens’, Arte Productions, Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris, FRANCE

‘Big Paintings From Artbank’. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW1986 ‘Nustart’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD ‘Big Abstract Drawing’, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW1985 ‘Small Works’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD ‘Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW ‘In All Directions’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD1984 ‘Painters Sculpture’, Australian Centre for

Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC1983 ‘Exhibition of Finalists, Copper Industries Sculpture

Award’, Wollongong City Art Gallery Sculpture Centre, Sydney, NSW

1982 ‘Recent Works’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW1981 ‘Continuum NAS 60-AMC 80’ Ivan Dougherty

Gallery Sydney and Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW‘Australian Artists Pay Tribute to Howard Hinton’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW

1980 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW1979 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW

Collections

Artbank Air New Zealand Allens Collection Charles Sturt University Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Coventry Collection Campbelltown City Art Gallery C.O.F.A. University of N.S.W. Griffith University Collection

Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

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Holmes a’Court Collection The Hutchins School TAS Ipswich Regional Art Gallery Qld James Hardie Library Collection Macquarie University Maitland Regional Art Gallery Moree Plains Regional Gallery National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria New England Regional Art Museum Parliament House, Canberra Philip Morris Collection, NGA Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Queensland Art Gallery Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Tamworth Regional Gallery University of New England University of Western Sydney University of Sydney Wollongong City Art Gallery Wollongong University Art Collection Awards & Commissions

2013 Private Commission, ‘Brave Apollo’, Sydney Private Commission, ‘Chimera’, Sydney

Private Commission, ‘Aphrodite Black’, Kithera, Greece Longrain Sydney, ‘Orchid’2012 Private Commission, ‘Snake’, Bellevue Hill, Sydney University of Western Sydney, ‘Curl Curl’. Private Commission, ‘4 Petals’, Greenwich, Sydney2011 Longrain Sydney, sculptures for Shortgrain and Bar2010 Private commission, ‘Mermaid’, Whale Beach St Vincent’s Hospital commission, ‘flower for a friend’2009 Longrain, Sydney, 10th Anniversary wall sculpture, ‘wave’

Mosman Art Trust and Mosman Municipal Council, ‘the white flower’ sculpture installed in Hunter Park, Balmoral

2007/8 Rouse Hill Town Centre Sculpture Commission, ‘Homage to a Tree’.2006 Longrain, Melbourne, sculpture and wall hanging, ‘Anemone’

2005 Macquarie University Sculpture Park, ‘Mira Mira’2004 Private Commission, Dover Heights, Sydney, ‘Cockatoo’2003 Crown Casino, Melbourne2001 Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart2000 Bathroom signs for Tetsuya’s Restaurant, Sydney & London1999 Tattersalls Club, Sydney, foyer installation1998 ‘1998 National Works on Paper’ Award, Mornington

Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria1998 New England Regional Art Museum sculpture garden commission 1997-1998 Darling Harbour Park Royal, artwork for reception and public spaces1998 Medina Apartments, Painting & Sculpture for Entry/ Reception, Melbourne1997 12th Floor Cambers, Sydney1996 Parkroyal Parramatta- Paintings for Public Spaces1994 Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery

References

COBURN, Daniel, Video Documentary, 1987DRURY, N. (ed.) ‘Images 3: Contemporary Australian Painting’, Craftsman House, 1998GLOBAL ARTS LINK exhibition cat. ‘Pride of Place: the CS Energy Gift & City of Ipswich Collection’’ EISENBERG,J, ‘A View of the Collections’, New England Regional Art Museum, 1997 illust p.57FROST, Andrew, ‘Christopher Hodges: Utopian Visions’, Australian Art Collector, issue 8, April – June 1999FRY, Gavin, The Peter Elliott Collection of Australian Art, The Beagle Press, 2013HANSFORD, Pamela, `Perspecta 1985’, essayHARDY, J (Ed) ‘It’s About Time’, exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty GalleryHOOPER,B/GREGORY,W/MILBURN,M, ‘The Edge’, Cat. Milburn- Arte,1987LOPEZ, Annemarie, ‘Christopher Hodges: The accidental gallery owner’, Australian Art Review, 24 September 2009LOXLEY, Anne, ‘Art & About’ exhibition catalogue, 2005MELLON, James, Artist Interviews, Victorian State

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Library,1986NIAGARA GALLERIES ‘Contemporary Australian Abstraction’, 1996 exhibition cataloguePETELIN,G, ‘Nature and Technology’, 1987QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, ‘Balance 1990 – Views, Visions, Influences’, exhibition catalogue, illustration p45 & 56SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE exhibition cat. ‘The Hutchins Art Prize’, The Long Gallery, Salamanca TALMACS,R, ‘The Edge’ , 1987 essay TALMACS,R, ‘Space-Man’, 1989, essaySANDERS, Anne, ‘Profile: Christopher Hodges’, Artist Profile, Issue 22, 2013TALMACS,R, ‘Abstract’, 1992, exhibition catalogue essay UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE ‘Toys by artists’ exhibition catalogue, 1998UTOPIA ART SYDNEY ‘Loose’, 1995 exhibition catalogueUTOPIA ART SYDNEY, ‘Form and Substance’, 1997 exhibition catalogueVARIOUS ‘Amnesty International Faces of Hope’, exhibition catalogue, 1997Place, Hobart, 2001WATSON, Chloe, ‘Christopher Hodges: Drawing in Space’, online publication, 2012WATSON, Chloe, ‘Paper: 1988 – 2012’, online exhibition catalogue essay, Utopia Art Sydney, 2012YAREAH MAGAZINE, ‘Sculptor Christopher Hodges at Utopia Art Sydney’, July 9, 2014

Illustrations and Publications

‘Precious metal’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/2/2014. Review of Sculpture City at National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery.‘Sydney embraces sculpture month’, Gina Fairley, Artshub (online), 30/1/2014 ‘Meanjin4 2011’ Volume 70 Number 4 Summer 2011 ‘Aboriginal Art: On the Margins no Longer’.‘Art & Australia’ vol 48/2, 2010, p 242 ‘Donald Judd: the Great Arranger’.‘Sculpture by the Sea’ Calender, 2008 ‘Qantas Magazine’ October, 2006, p213 ‘Natonal Geographic – Traveller’, May/June, Vol. 23 No. 4, p36, 2006

‘Gourmet Traveller’, January, 2006Cover Illustration ‘The Domain’ (The Sydney Moring Herald) October 27th , 2005‘Belle’ Magazine, April/May 2005, p100‘Sculpture by the Sea’ advertising image for 2003 Sculpture by the Sea, SMH, Art Almanac etc., 2003‘Sydney Morning Herald’ (Good Living) April 18-24, 2000Tattersalls Club newsletter, February, 2000 ‘Vogue Apartment Living’, No 1, 2000 p91, 93‘Artbank’ issue 3 Spring,1999 p 4‘Sydney Morning Herald’ (Good Living) September 21, 1999 “House & Garden” December, 1999 p120‘Sculpture by the Sea’ poster and catalogue, 1999Frontis piece, The University of Sydney Union Annual Report, 1996Cover illustration ‘Ulitarra’ 11:1997 Ulitarra Literary Association Incorporated, 1997

Collaborations

‘Skin & Division: Michael Eather and Friends’ Brisbane City Gallery, 1997

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Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: [email protected]

© Utopia Art Sydney

30 August - 20 September, 2014

Christopher Hodges

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Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: [email protected]