Remember Me: Charlotte Hodes Papercuts & Ceramics

The output consists of a newly commissioned wall installation, 'Remember Me' running 12m consisting on 122 ceramic plates as well as a 3m related papercut ' Frieze'. This formed part of a solo exhibition of the same name at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 3 June - 3 September 2017.

The exhibition brought together a number of major projects on paper and ceramics: (Grammar of Ornament 2014, Dressed in Pattern 2015-16, & Waves 2010). The exhibition is a further development of artwork that I have made that addresses both the representation of women and my engagement with alternative practices such as ceramics, collage and papercut as alternatives to the hierarchical, often male practice of painting. The work is also a celebration of domestic sphere and how this can be used as a space for re-enactment. It aims to reveal my preoccupation, as a fine artist, with the decorative arts and use of the value of hand craft process. It is my first 'wall' installation of ceramics which serves as an equivalent to a painting on canvas. It is significant as an exemplar of the way that boundaries of craft practice are increasingly porous, drawing from other disciplines including fine art practice.

The exhibition consisted of:
-a new wall installation Remember Me 2017
-a new large scale papercut 2017
-table installation Spode Trees & Dressed Silhouettes 2015
-a series of 6 paperctus Waves 2010
-a selection of papercuts x 7 and related ceramics x 14 from Grammar of Ornament 2014
-a small cabinet of working drawings
-3 x 19th Century chromo-litho book plates from the Gallery Collection

A 10 minute documentary film commissioned by Wolverhampton Art Gallery showed the creation of Remember Me.

Catalogue with essay by Kate Kellaway (The Observer) ISBN:978-0-947642-33-4

Charlotte Hodes contributed a short essay 'Fragile Order' centred on her papercut entitled, Frieze made for her solo exhibition Remember Me at Wolverhampton Art Gallery for 'Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life
Critical Intersections and Creative Practice' 2023
Editors: Dr Sarah Horton and Dr Victoria Mitchell
ISBN 9781789387803

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