Remember Me: Charlotte Hodes Papercuts and Ceramics

This exhibition was a further iteration of Hodes'solo exhibition, of the same name, that took place at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2017. It profiled her long-standing engagement with the boundaries between fine art and craft practice. The work on exhibition consisted of two ceramics installations; ‘Remember Me’ commissioned by and first shown at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2017 and ‘Spode Trees and Silhouettes’ commissioned by and first shown at the British Ceramic Biennial in 2015.

These ceramic installations, made up of multiple pieces of ready-made tableware represent an alternative ‘canvas’ that reference domesticity and the home. These ideas are further developed through a new sequence of papercuts, ‘Caryatids’ (2018) and paintings which incorporate ceramic plates.The exhibition revealed the way in which Hodes draws from both the rich iconography of the decorative arts and her own hand drawn archive of motifs centred on the female figure. Her woman, depicted as a silhouette, disrupts her given role as a decorative and fragile feature. Hodes ideas are embedded within the collage process through which she challenges accepted hierarchical structures and disrupts notions of quiet female domesticity.

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