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Gordon Hodgkin
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United Kingdom
• 1932
Biography
Gordon Hodgkin is an English printmaker born in 1932 in Hammersmith and died in 2017 in London. Gordon Hodgkin studied at Bryanston School and then began a teaching career at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bath. At the same time as this activity, he explores two worlds: those of painting and engraving. He rose to prominence in the London art scene in the early 1960s, and organized his first solo exhibition in 1962. His style was then characterized by the rigorous use of a well-defined color palette. The shapes are simple and minimalist. In 1970, Gordon Hodgkin was often compared to Henri Matisse, and produced so-called “semi-abstract” paintings. The guideline of his work is simple: the painter represents good times spent with family or friends. Gordon Hodgkin is interested in relief, and combines engravings and paintings in minimalist etchings produced on a small scale. This approach allows him to work on the very concept of painting, which for him aims to produce objects, and not representations. A canvas is like a chair, and the painter is like a craftsman. The engravings and paintings accentuate this idea, establishing the “object” dimension dear to the artist. Following this same logic, the artist recovers used materials on which he paints: unusable pieces of wood, breadboards no longer used… Nothing is too original for this lover of reality. Recognized artist on the European artistic scene, Hodgkin represented England at the Venice Biennale in 1984. The following year, he won the Turner Prize. In 1992, he was made Sir Howard Eliot Hodgkin by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2006, the Tate Gallery in London organized a retrospective of his work.
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