https://nickyhodge.com NickyHodge Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:03:08 +0000 https://nickyhodge.com en https://nickyhodge.com/ARTWORKS Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:03:08 +0000 NickyHodge https://nickyhodge.com/ARTWORKS Nicky Hodge: Notes from Elsewhere &nbsp;Jul 24 – Sep 20, 2025 &nbsp;(link)&nbsp; Francis Gallery. 8323 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, United StatesExhibition photography by Elizabeth Carababas <img width="3000" height="1501" width_o="3000" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60863b15e794d822f90e9d48d1649f0f1547a992164fbc12492a790f64a7ce2a/instalherowide.jpg" data-mid="236457090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60863b15e794d822f90e9d48d1649f0f1547a992164fbc12492a790f64a7ce2a/instalherowide.jpg" /> Notes from Elsewhere, installation view @Francis Gallery&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/456ceaf2e2dceae98e243e19d041c7e5faa74a04d6dfa46b392bed9877527ba2/Umbrage.jpg" data-mid="236382638" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/456ceaf2e2dceae98e243e19d041c7e5faa74a04d6dfa46b392bed9877527ba2/Umbrage.jpg" /> Umbrage, acrylic on canvas, 100 X 160 cm, 2025&nbsp;@Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="1501" width_o="3000" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c1b873f72c199c12792c98b0e3be732347622a9bfcbef6911d1eb3628412d3e/emissary.jpg" data-mid="236382641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c1b873f72c199c12792c98b0e3be732347622a9bfcbef6911d1eb3628412d3e/emissary.jpg" /> Emissary, acrylic on canvas 120 x 100 cm 2025&nbsp;@Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0448468c10f6c37a8c9d9d8400edb9ae81a207c895d19f90a964aca02997c613/marooned-port.jpg" data-mid="236382797" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0448468c10f6c37a8c9d9d8400edb9ae81a207c895d19f90a964aca02997c613/marooned-port.jpg" /> Marooned, watercolour on stretched cotton, 80 x 60 cm 2025 @Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="1501" width_o="3000" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c09f3dbef83883d5cac6120f228d17498426924c4a6776fd744950cd4bc009f/New-group-1.jpg" data-mid="236386550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c09f3dbef83883d5cac6120f228d17498426924c4a6776fd744950cd4bc009f/New-group-1.jpg" /> Notes from Elsewhere, installation view @Francis Gallery Trackless Forest, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2025 @Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e066884e8b26a8be29a4ea2437246514f4f1c5f42846f75597660c5a85d76d9/Bright-Scallops_new.jpg" data-mid="236457291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e066884e8b26a8be29a4ea2437246514f4f1c5f42846f75597660c5a85d76d9/Bright-Scallops_new.jpg" /> Notes from Elsewhere, installation view @Francis Gallery Bright Scallops (series), mixed media &nbsp;14.85 x 21 cm (unframed) each, 2024-25 @Francis Gallery Nicky Hodge: Touch Paper Jul 26 – Aug 23, 2025&nbsp; (link) Francis Gallery. 3 Fountain Buildings, Lansdown Road, Bath, United KingdomExhibition photography by Ellen Hancock <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94474367983f03e51d2ec65522464dd2d0f4272dc4d23df1cfedb59c1e47bdfd/exterior.jpg" data-mid="236387180" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94474367983f03e51d2ec65522464dd2d0f4272dc4d23df1cfedb59c1e47bdfd/exterior.jpg" /> Touch Paper, exterior view @Francis Gallery&nbsp;Misstep, oil stick on brown card, 149 x 100 cm, 2025 <img width="3000" height="1501" width_o="3000" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/346294c804cf286b2a5bc377f0d68a3ec0e76464e4feef61cb29a9cf005412de/redinstall.jpg" data-mid="236387423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/346294c804cf286b2a5bc377f0d68a3ec0e76464e4feef61cb29a9cf005412de/redinstall.jpg" /> Unloosed, oil stick on paper 59.4 x 84.1 cm 2025 @Francis Gallery Purl, copper oil stick on board, 35.5 x 28 cm, 2025&nbsp;@Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65b4916e45300f133cf255c4826af031ff519beb5c184084fe2329e8b7a56039/POint-Blank.jpg" data-mid="236387627" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65b4916e45300f133cf255c4826af031ff519beb5c184084fe2329e8b7a56039/POint-Blank.jpg" /> Point Blank, oil stick on brown card, 208 x 180cm 2025 @Francis Gallery&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="1501" width_o="3000" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc87084c17b58faa65cd9fa31cf0c295e95efa5e937c39374f8dcbad88b4b86f/scallops-2.jpg" data-mid="236388409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc87084c17b58faa65cd9fa31cf0c295e95efa5e937c39374f8dcbad88b4b86f/scallops-2.jpg" /> Bright Scallops (series), mixed media 14.85 x 21 cm each, 2024-25&nbsp;@Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae57c21c330d4f3a4563969a1af3ebe0b4ef433394eda91a9f1655778bc95f63/Bright-Scallops.jpg" data-mid="236388309" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae57c21c330d4f3a4563969a1af3ebe0b4ef433394eda91a9f1655778bc95f63/Bright-Scallops.jpg" /> Bright Scallops (series), mixed media 14.85 x 21 cm each, 2024-25&nbsp;@Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0685b3dadf0e6291bcc6edbd1b7f9d4955cf04d9318ba9eb3fd6c6693cb78eb8/instal-door.jpg" data-mid="236387280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0685b3dadf0e6291bcc6edbd1b7f9d4955cf04d9318ba9eb3fd6c6693cb78eb8/instal-door.jpg" /> Touch Paper installation view. @Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="2249" width_o="3000" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf274c6f75cad512424f89ad6d3e40454cd8679beb259565023cf44f47625fa5/edit_Seapower.jpg" data-mid="236459738" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf274c6f75cad512424f89ad6d3e40454cd8679beb259565023cf44f47625fa5/edit_Seapower.jpg" /> Seapower, acrylic on canvas, 55 x 45.5 cm, 2024 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa63e3ac2dcf08187b04ddc3c4f7c80336ef36381d1150674aea8be7cd3f6c0a/flotilla_web.jpg" data-mid="236354442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa63e3ac2dcf08187b04ddc3c4f7c80336ef36381d1150674aea8be7cd3f6c0a/flotilla_web.jpg" /> Flotilla acrylic on canvas, 160 x 130cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d44fc5d4f624ff43d264138231d15fbfc92403df271a7bc38a98d4b8f0f0fb5/Lostness_web.jpg" data-mid="236354430" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d44fc5d4f624ff43d264138231d15fbfc92403df271a7bc38a98d4b8f0f0fb5/Lostness_web.jpg" /> Lostness acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4384ee2cc1f74001570f30310fa361ce296583dbd74a3bb5134582368c0a185e/beautifulcranesweb.jpg" data-mid="236354431" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4384ee2cc1f74001570f30310fa361ce296583dbd74a3bb5134582368c0a185e/beautifulcranesweb.jpg" /> Beautiful cranes acrylic on canvas,150 x 100cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f775d7e99e34fd7880d85543c79cf4ba70ba7bd427be86f1257ace45927a40b2/Deluge_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f775d7e99e34fd7880d85543c79cf4ba70ba7bd427be86f1257ace45927a40b2/Deluge_wall.jpg" /> Deluge acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89bb15e7ce091cbc60999e7d8887d2df5d62f1caa3c4d29e222beb67c3623ac4/Body-waiting_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89bb15e7ce091cbc60999e7d8887d2df5d62f1caa3c4d29e222beb67c3623ac4/Body-waiting_wall.jpg" /> Body waiting acrylic on canvas 150 x 100 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/430929a5a6ab5c1abc62e300fac870422839673ca3e46a3c605f45a5448018b5/gestalt_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/430929a5a6ab5c1abc62e300fac870422839673ca3e46a3c605f45a5448018b5/gestalt_wall.jpg" /> Gestalt acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9090a5dfd95aa2550b2f50d1c84d860297acc8843904baa531d1c99f83a7030f/turpetudewall.jpg" data-mid="236354429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9090a5dfd95aa2550b2f50d1c84d860297acc8843904baa531d1c99f83a7030f/turpetudewall.jpg" /> Turpitude acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7da6cd1aa10f8e3482dbb28d35fc82a98137cd00444dc578064466f160e384ed/seaoflimbs_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354436" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7da6cd1aa10f8e3482dbb28d35fc82a98137cd00444dc578064466f160e384ed/seaoflimbs_wall.jpg" /> Sea of limbs acrylic on canvas, 120 x 91 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35cfb95ae18d60d21035709596b7e24d1b68dbb25e8799ef5a919d92b76eb175/Rife_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35cfb95ae18d60d21035709596b7e24d1b68dbb25e8799ef5a919d92b76eb175/Rife_wall.jpg" /> Rife acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f999f67d3f6c668f92c3f9dcf530b3c8907a5e50be9a92e67be4a254e21a94a4/nowitness_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f999f67d3f6c668f92c3f9dcf530b3c8907a5e50be9a92e67be4a254e21a94a4/nowitness_wall.jpg" /> No witness acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64546025502e6926c163443e39dad8530ee2cda56322d9b0dbf653495a0fcda2/Abalone_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354440" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64546025502e6926c163443e39dad8530ee2cda56322d9b0dbf653495a0fcda2/Abalone_wall.jpg" /> Abalone acrylic on canvas, 56 x 46 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86dc9a72fd6d69b7a4e4fe5118d4816e985010a4437d88194f4ffbeafe5f8ea9/dreamcatcher_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354441" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86dc9a72fd6d69b7a4e4fe5118d4816e985010a4437d88194f4ffbeafe5f8ea9/dreamcatcher_wall.jpg" /> Dream catcher acrylic on canvas, 42 x 30 cm, 2023 @Francis Gallery <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcef12b98be15401d9f0676e9893dbfc4debca8c55fe1c14778b09e991023ab6/1_ottoman.jpg" data-mid="236354403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcef12b98be15401d9f0676e9893dbfc4debca8c55fe1c14778b09e991023ab6/1_ottoman.jpg" /> Ottoman series &nbsp;150 x 100cm each panel, acrylic on canvas, 2022 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77f45bf72af2cc457bb41315d8be89d4e22c2a05ae2484fbc7f0b24a64f52641/nightime01.jpg" data-mid="236354404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77f45bf72af2cc457bb41315d8be89d4e22c2a05ae2484fbc7f0b24a64f52641/nightime01.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;160 x 120cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022&nbsp; @Richeldis Fine Art <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acdd9ac2131b03a1372d682c2f8280e984f81ea4c807f634269eeb975e936085/nightime02.jpg" data-mid="236354405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acdd9ac2131b03a1372d682c2f8280e984f81ea4c807f634269eeb975e936085/nightime02.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;160 x 120cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/644bed4d4e7d602596079b05d7c2b6c51dd3785cec1343e94f1687c1431a9c69/nightime03.jpg" data-mid="236354409" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/644bed4d4e7d602596079b05d7c2b6c51dd3785cec1343e94f1687c1431a9c69/nightime03.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;150 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02190ac0f013a77f44cf5b04d8feb62b4f7cae5518e090e765c720f46a664f69/nightime04.jpg" data-mid="236354408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02190ac0f013a77f44cf5b04d8feb62b4f7cae5518e090e765c720f46a664f69/nightime04.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;150 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17d41217b584ee544cb12b76d9d67c208d40804e2ef6430c8460ae74a6357b9/nightime07.jpg" data-mid="236354411" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b17d41217b584ee544cb12b76d9d67c208d40804e2ef6430c8460ae74a6357b9/nightime07.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76d4e4397cd13f8366f19dfb6dd0a7987dfd9b925bb865ec4633eaf4f1582d0f/nightime08.jpg" data-mid="236354413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76d4e4397cd13f8366f19dfb6dd0a7987dfd9b925bb865ec4633eaf4f1582d0f/nightime08.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd38a259f1e6771a4e921fdb118d2550c278c31ef1caa2a953ddbbaa2bbb1086/nightime09010.jpg" data-mid="236354415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd38a259f1e6771a4e921fdb118d2550c278c31ef1caa2a953ddbbaa2bbb1086/nightime09010.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series) &nbsp;120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022 /&nbsp;120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022@Richeldis Fine Art <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20a0e7e6d43cc367f21d93f730b4ccf09776bd793d2aef779f0011fa66f8321d/nightime11.jpg" data-mid="236354416" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20a0e7e6d43cc367f21d93f730b4ccf09776bd793d2aef779f0011fa66f8321d/nightime11.jpg" /> Nighttime words leak out (series)&nbsp; each 120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022&nbsp; @Richeldis Fine Art <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cd17af84f827d832e8f2bf64d3e166ed72c06c3f31db58be10d16f05474efb9/breathdoor.jpg" data-mid="236354417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cd17af84f827d832e8f2bf64d3e166ed72c06c3f31db58be10d16f05474efb9/breathdoor.jpg" /> Breathdoor &nbsp;150 x 100cms, acrylic on canvas, 2022 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c61adad80df420fdcd15daa4389d030f9a3839fd6045a78f6577849fd202fd3d/Firefly--Deshabille.jpg" data-mid="236354418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c61adad80df420fdcd15daa4389d030f9a3839fd6045a78f6577849fd202fd3d/Firefly--Deshabille.jpg" /> Firefly and Deshabille &nbsp;each 120 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48dceea92d3c204cef182d1a07197be46ae2fd09ebf9fb8e0923a0834919f7ba/newdude.jpg" data-mid="236354428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48dceea92d3c204cef182d1a07197be46ae2fd09ebf9fb8e0923a0834919f7ba/newdude.jpg" /> Dude &nbsp;18 x 13cms, acrylic on canvas, 2022&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a457edf8766eabb4d7c12bac5eb22b7cbd55d05cf0f79b66fb499ea882d2530/thirdbird.jpg" data-mid="236354422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a457edf8766eabb4d7c12bac5eb22b7cbd55d05cf0f79b66fb499ea882d2530/thirdbird.jpg" /> Third bird &nbsp;25.5 x20cms, acylic on linen and canvas, 2022 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1328e86313f0f43c86d01d399397e26d184149baf401fc327e3d1aa08b5042e7/installedheader.jpg" data-mid="236354374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1328e86313f0f43c86d01d399397e26d184149baf401fc327e3d1aa08b5042e7/installedheader.jpg" /> &nbsp; Horse Gossip&nbsp;installation shot, Bobinska Brownlee, London, 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ef7b32a607dee46b2bb755620fdb4529e1252f15141761eecb15395a600d39c/stolewall.jpg" data-mid="236354376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ef7b32a607dee46b2bb755620fdb4529e1252f15141761eecb15395a600d39c/stolewall.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;Stole&nbsp;oil stick on raw linen, 55.5 x 45.5cm, 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2958435699c4a38db3b4783e377506ca921fd6a348f22e39987b29b1526086e5/glassyslapwall.jpg" data-mid="236354390" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2958435699c4a38db3b4783e377506ca921fd6a348f22e39987b29b1526086e5/glassyslapwall.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;Glassy Slap&nbsp;acrylic and ink on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2021 (iimage: Max Colson) <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/944c3b0a34dd6bf9de7889ad7d52a9707026753d9ba56d78e2441e049843ccb9/installationshot2.jpg" data-mid="236354380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/944c3b0a34dd6bf9de7889ad7d52a9707026753d9ba56d78e2441e049843ccb9/installationshot2.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;Horse Gossip&nbsp; installation shot, Bobinska Brownlee, London, 2021 (iimage: Max Colson) <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8eba21b458ebc35e45210f61303a22e3656aef6a607067604d7111d6c717e9e/Buthbabewall.jpg" data-mid="236354381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8eba21b458ebc35e45210f61303a22e3656aef6a607067604d7111d6c717e9e/Buthbabewall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Butch-babe ink on raw canvas, 55.5 x 45.5cm, 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad89b69f7b9d006a33d3ef04077c1e1784f23b44f79b0b4726c51936aaa31a19/slipmoonwall.jpg" data-mid="236354383" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad89b69f7b9d006a33d3ef04077c1e1784f23b44f79b0b4726c51936aaa31a19/slipmoonwall.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;Slip moon&nbsp;acrylic and spray on raw canvas, 80 x 60cm , 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b84f921add4649c47775e94ec8079b66f8b4b1d537dd540c9cf73d306523fdf/seerwall.jpg" data-mid="236354384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b84f921add4649c47775e94ec8079b66f8b4b1d537dd540c9cf73d306523fdf/seerwall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Seer (detail and install) acrylic on raw canvas, 121 x 91cm, 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2f66cde183dbd60343937fa5e9a3e354fb2525a2d96e4c713264c0264dcdd8a/darkhorsewall.jpg" data-mid="236354385" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2f66cde183dbd60343937fa5e9a3e354fb2525a2d96e4c713264c0264dcdd8a/darkhorsewall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Dark Horse acrylic on raw canvas, 18 x 13cm, 2021 (image: Max Colson) <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a97e5bc3138768e40b4eec678ebca5c4881613507cee26a33c071a0cf56ed17b/Frisson-wallwall.jpg" data-mid="236354389" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a97e5bc3138768e40b4eec678ebca5c4881613507cee26a33c071a0cf56ed17b/Frisson-wallwall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Frisson &nbsp;acrylic on canvas, 35.5cm x 28cm, 2021 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3601fe542c397808e264fa6e3d419928615cfba5c3b761797f387afebcaf4169/WALLonarchive.jpg" data-mid="236354392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3601fe542c397808e264fa6e3d419928615cfba5c3b761797f387afebcaf4169/WALLonarchive.jpg" /> &nbsp; Type archive&nbsp; installation shot, mixed media on canvas, each 18 x13cm, 2021 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b49334642b681f8334933a3452dcb4b8d98ced81b421712a9aaa45d29943469/rusewall.jpg" data-mid="236354394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b49334642b681f8334933a3452dcb4b8d98ced81b421712a9aaa45d29943469/rusewall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Ruse&nbsp;acrylic and spray on raw canvas, 40 x 30cm, 2021 <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8b49e2986514319ad8dbce8aab968d55c332cdc2e35a95930628169c4064cbd/grassthinks_wall.jpg" data-mid="236354396" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8b49e2986514319ad8dbce8aab968d55c332cdc2e35a95930628169c4064cbd/grassthinks_wall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Grass Thinks Too&nbsp;acrylic on unprimed canvas, 121 x 91cm, 2021 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a658f87bc66720eb780f422a977d6d76b485257abdef86e0192571212e826d06/nocountrywall.jpg" data-mid="236354397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a658f87bc66720eb780f422a977d6d76b485257abdef86e0192571212e826d06/nocountrywall.jpg" /> &nbsp; No Country&nbsp;acrylic on unstretched canvas, 10 x 15cm., 2021 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65075024669c7d31f64ef8d40142c335f66b754cd622cab26521445858601415/idlecakeswall.jpg" data-mid="236354398" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65075024669c7d31f64ef8d40142c335f66b754cd622cab26521445858601415/idlecakeswall.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;Idle Cakes&nbsp;detail and installation shot, acrylic on paper, 15 x 10cm each, 2021 <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b007e4e82b1b561e8cf2ce57115ed9a562c4d9be9847ab76328360fd412f7c4e/sylabuswall.jpg" data-mid="236354400" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b007e4e82b1b561e8cf2ce57115ed9a562c4d9be9847ab76328360fd412f7c4e/sylabuswall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Syllabub&nbsp;acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60cm, 2021 <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825d8ba25a181587c14ca57e8a6cc76f59868f08bb541efca27c72fd6aa67dba/autocorrectwall.jpg" data-mid="236354402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/825d8ba25a181587c14ca57e8a6cc76f59868f08bb541efca27c72fd6aa67dba/autocorrectwall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Epithet&nbsp;acrylic and hessian on canvas, 35.5 x 28cm, 20 <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dbfd9dfe1887810ad428371263a9f87f0df85564415215f21a84ef28863396e/menargeriewall.jpg" data-mid="236354399" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dbfd9dfe1887810ad428371263a9f87f0df85564415215f21a84ef28863396e/menargeriewall.jpg" /> &nbsp; Menagerie&nbsp;mixed media works on studio wall, various sizes, 2021 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50cc52be3995f71a28d92891b1b5a6f6ab70c7fed0c1ff70959b1286d0fedb57/A1.jpg" data-mid="236354321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50cc52be3995f71a28d92891b1b5a6f6ab70c7fed0c1ff70959b1286d0fedb57/A1.jpg" /> &nbsp; Shy clang, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2021 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef6a15c95ffe8b306f28e81011ae0602e2101559d963b94ac0651288e71526be/B11.jpg" data-mid="236354347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef6a15c95ffe8b306f28e81011ae0602e2101559d963b94ac0651288e71526be/B11.jpg" /> &nbsp; Stanza, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 35 x 25cm, 2021 <img width="2001" height="1500" width_o="2001" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bd4d6d852e7a1f55fe7b4d027cdc735e69fcbaa99187bf14398cc387706e258/b3.jpg" data-mid="236354333" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bd4d6d852e7a1f55fe7b4d027cdc735e69fcbaa99187bf14398cc387706e258/b3.jpg" /> &nbsp; Brouhaha, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 121 x 91cm, 2021 <img width="3000" height="1500" width_o="3000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15d01f2a7b581a13f9b405dd712dce7c61c8cedc868a8be8ca6a0721c4741d56/b5.jpg" data-mid="236354339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15d01f2a7b581a13f9b405dd712dce7c61c8cedc868a8be8ca6a0721c4741d56/b5.jpg" /> &nbsp; Escort, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2020 <img width="3000" height="975" width_o="3000" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87cfe257d153117f0a828b82908c29f2b82cc74c30a6060de0376af97e505e73/Dbreak.jpg" data-mid="236354353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87cfe257d153117f0a828b82908c29f2b82cc74c30a6060de0376af97e505e73/Dbreak.jpg" /> https://nickyhodge.com/About Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:11:47 +0000 NickyHodge https://nickyhodge.com/About STATEMENT Nicky Hodge is a minimalist, abstract artist living and working in Bristol, UK.&nbsp; Working intuitively and spontaneously mainly on raw canvas, all of her muted and mainly monochromatic paintings rely on the nuances of touch allowing works to emerge directly out of the process. Steeped in an allusive and unsystematic approach, the works draw upon memory and experience and reflect her interest in the experience of painting, her close-up investigations into material producing works that reveal an intimacy and a sense of calm. Nicky Hodge has exhibited her paintings, drawings and mixed media works widely over the past 25 years. In 2021, she had a solo exhibition, Horse Gossip, at Bobinska Brownlee in London. Wundertüte, a two person show with the German abstract artist Michael Kaul, opened at Hart’s Lane Gallery in August 2022. In the same year, she developed a new collection of 11 paintings, Nighttime words leak out, for Richeldis Fine Art. In 2023, Hodge’s solo exhibition Slip Road took place at Francis Gallery in Bath. With NISO London, she took part in Terra, an exhibition across three sites in Burgundy, France in 2024 and early in 2025 was part of Bridges, a joint NISO/Biscuit Gallery show in Tokyo, Japan. Nicky Hodge is represented by Francis Gallery, Bath | Los Angeles. She had two solo shows in the summer of 2025 – Touch Paper 26 July – 23 August in Bath and Notes from Elsewhere 24 July – 20 September in LA.&nbsp; TEXTS, PRESS, CATALOGUES TEXT TO ACCOMPANY THE EXHIBITION NOTES FROM ELSEWHEREFRANCIS GALLERY, LOS ANGELES by Cherry Smyth Indigo voyager, you lift above green, travel in horizontal time, with silent messages.&nbsp; Deep green grows behind you, smudged over a paler green.&nbsp; The gaps between are soothing, not anxious, as ideas seem to float past.&nbsp; ‘Emissary’, 2025, like many of Nicky Hodges’ paintings is quiet, but it is not easy.&nbsp; It has activity within the quietude;&nbsp; a thinking mind behind a calm face.&nbsp; And don’t we seek both – the beauty and tranquillity of abstraction that frees us from the tyranny of representation, and yet also the sense that something is yearning to be represented at the edge of the image – or no – from within it. &nbsp; Hodge plays the friction between reduction and amplification in these beautifully introvert paintings and drawings, where substance is layered up, taken away, ‘pushing,’ as Richard Tuttle says, ‘the indefinable toward indefinability.’ (1) In ‘Umbrage’, 2025, energetic marks point upwards, mimicking verdant growth, where you could imagine the misty pinnacles of the Three Gorges of the Yellow River, or at the other end of the scale,&nbsp; first feisty shoots in a shaded spring.&nbsp; The eye loves green best, knows it means sustenance, tries to pin it to plant-life, food-lore.&nbsp; There is no right way to enter a painting, but there is a benign texture to the hues and gestures, a soft slow meander that invites you in.&nbsp; The painting’s open provisionality brings to mind the experimental work of Irish poet Eilish Martin: &nbsp; &nbsp; ‘, as&nbsp; is scattered light &nbsp; &nbsp; , as&nbsp; is the daytime dress &nbsp; &nbsp; , as&nbsp; is its pulled material &nbsp; &nbsp; , as&nbsp; is its deep detail going &nbsp; &nbsp; , as&nbsp; is into the seed-set night’&nbsp; (2) The lyrical buoyancy of ‘Prufrock’, 2025, counters the unfulfilled and worried world of the protagonist of T.S. Eliot’s poem, ‘The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock’ that it invokes.&nbsp; Here, Hodge scores acrylic like crayon or oil pastel, rendering the gestures playful and filled with childlike exuberance.&nbsp; What draws the artist more is perhaps the question in Eliot’s poem which sits at the core of much creative work: ‘Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.’ (3) Or maybe Hodge is more interested in invoking the shift at the end of the poem when the narrator says: ‘I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.’ (4) But surely they do sing to her and this painting seems to sing with an impatient happiness. To be marooned can be a pitiful or a longed-for state: to be beyond reach, caught in stasis, inertia perhaps, a state that can induce panic, fear or loneliness on one hand, or deep contentment and welcome solitude on the other.&nbsp; Once, to be marooned, was to find safety.&nbsp; Coined in the 17th century, to name escaped slaves, or maroons, who often hid in remote, uninhabited places, the roots lie in the Spanish word ‘cimarrón’, meaning feral animal.&nbsp; Imagine my surprised delight to also discover that the word may also derive from the Taíno word ‘símaran’ meaning ‘stray arrow’ and is used to describe those who defy social norms, like artists, like queers.&nbsp; The multiple meanings stretch back into early colonial forms of the word’s usage and blossom in current use.&nbsp; The purple ambiguities of Hodge’s ‘Marooned’, 2025, fascinate.&nbsp; If you can find a face, it is your own. &nbsp; It's human nature to follow a dip between two hills as a river would.&nbsp; In both ‘Fever Rings’, 2024 and ‘A Muse’, 2024, the gaze sinks into the gap at the base of the paintings.&nbsp; Whether suggestive of a landscape or a body’s opening, it’s where adventure and pleasure can be found, or indeed comfort and sleep.&nbsp; The paintings take you by the hand and lead the way.&nbsp; Is the valley death, the end of all fevers?&nbsp; Is the muse asking for complete surrender in the whitish hollow beneath a lilac ground?&nbsp; Each offers a sweet indeterminacy of focus and form, the mulling over of an idea or a presence, where change, perhaps transcendent, dwells. ‘Trackless Forest’, 2025, presents a choreography of grey and green light and motion.&nbsp; Is it chosen movement or fleeing displacement?&nbsp; Or simply leaves falling in nature’s rhythm, a reconciliation with flux?&nbsp; There’s nothing to fear in this pathlessness, where resilience could deliver the deep wisdom of aimlessness, one of the Three Doors of Liberation in Buddhist philosophy.&nbsp; Here the clarity of direction resides in the present moment, or as Tuttle puts it, ‘the pointless point’. (5) In Hodge’s sturdy and agile drawings, we see a similar assured quality of mark-making, the shuttling between levity and gravity, solidity and frailty.&nbsp; Is that why her work is so moving?&nbsp; It captures our ambivalences, our dualities, and our sore attempts to reach beyond them.&nbsp; This is immediate, sensuous and vulnerable work that takes you to thinking places. Cherry Smyth 2025 Richard Tuttle from a lecture at Harvard School of Design, October 13, 2015 Eilish Martin, from ?And what…if not, Macha Press: Belfast, 2024 T.S. Eliot, from ‘The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock’, first published 1915 ibid. Tuttle, ibid. Cherry Smyth is an Irish poet and writer She has five collections of poetry published; her fifth collection One Mountain: Sold was published in 2025. She also writes essays and reviews on contemporary visual arts for a range of art publications including Art Monthly. Nighttime words leak out exhibition catalogue&nbsp;︎ Richeldis Fine Art / gallery@richeldisfineart.com <img width="1417" height="709" width_o="1417" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a63d530e1c28d003efc66055644cb51b747216622af3a8d613f6c59bb8d04b05/horsegossiptexts.jpg" data-mid="148135936" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a63d530e1c28d003efc66055644cb51b747216622af3a8d613f6c59bb8d04b05/horsegossiptexts.jpg" /> Horse Gossip publication Texts by Nicky Coutts, Jenna Collins, Alan Shipway, Roxy Walsh and Libby Anson. 2021&nbsp; Design by Park Studios. Available by email:&nbsp;nickyhodge4@gmail.com Glassy Gluck&nbsp;︎ Text by&nbsp;Nicky Coutts, 2021 Interview with Art Presence ︎ Nicky Hodge artist interview no 17, published 10.11.20 CV&nbsp;︎ SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Notes From Elsewhere, Francis Gallery, Los Angeles &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Touch Paper, Francis Gallery, Bath&nbsp; 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Slip Road, Francis Gallery, Bath 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Nighttime words leak out, Richeldis Fine Art (online) 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Horse Gossip, Bobinska Brownlee, London&nbsp; 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; Low Plains Drifter, No Format Gallery, London 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; Only a moon to soup her, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London 2010 &nbsp; &nbsp; Multistorey, Nunhead Surgery, London 2005&nbsp; &nbsp; Small Wonder, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London 2001 &nbsp; &nbsp; Plot on the Landscape, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 New York–London Abstract Painters, curated by Karl Belik and Rob Hall, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York (upcoming) Material World, with Helen Acklam, Vic Coombes and Helen Grant, Centrepace Gallery, Bristol (upcoming) Vice Versa, curated by Jo Melvin, Terrace Gallery, London (upcoming) Inadvertent, curated by Catherine Knight and Andrew Churchill, The Laundrette, Bristol Soft Verge, curated by Jane Millar, Finch Gallery, LondonBridges, a joint NISO/Biscuit Gallery exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 2024 Terra, with NISO London, curated by Jenn Ellis across three sites, Burgundy, FranceAnonymous Drawings, curated by Anke Becker, Bethanien, Berlin; Erfut and Hamburg, GermanyAt Last It Came Into Focus, curated by Robyn Graham, Warbling, Greek Street, London In the Cabinet of Fancy, Terrace show curated by Rob Hall and Karl Bielik, Huddersfield, UK Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, UK 2023 Hovering, with Michael Kaul and Henry Hoffman, Niso Projects, Gallery 46, London&nbsp; The Cultivation of Things, with Gwenyth Fugard and Chris Christophorou, Kensington, London Makeshift, with Paul Keir and Alan Shipway, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Generator, fundraiser show for Ukraine, Bobinska Brownlee, London Champs Noir, curated by Simon Leahy Clark, Terrace Gallery, London 2022 Wundertüte, with Michael Kaul, Harts Lane Gallery, London Something Tender, with Gwenyth Fugard and Dom Gray, Yorkton Workshops, London Binary 2, curated by Karl Bielik &amp; Jonathan Powell, Terrace Gallery Exh 08, Floor magazine (online) Mind - be here, present / be here now, curated by Athene Greig, Dursley, Gloucestershire 2021 Notes for a landscape, curated by Kate Scrivener, millimetre 02, Kingsgate Project Space, London A Tiny Bit Of Fire, curated by Robyn Graham, Warbling Collective, London Pulp, curated by Jason Tessier, Florence Trust, LondonEthereal Reality, JB Art Gallery (online) Nothing’s gonna change my world, curated by raumwww, gr-und, Wedding, Berlin, Germany Studio Confetti, curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London 2020 Binary, curated by Karl Bielik &amp; Jonathan Powell, Shift Gallery, Cardiff, Wales Women + Health Lockdown Art exhibition (online) Long Winter Show, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales Way Out, curated by Ludovic Dervillez, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-les-Reims, France 25 Years, curated by Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (online) Fuzzy Objects, with Janet Currier and Jane Millar, San Mei Gallery, London New Doggerland, curated by Jane Millar, Thamesside Gallery, London 2019 Six Days in December, curated by Martin Gayford, Thamesside Gallery, London A Tapered Teardrop, curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London Of Course I Haven't Forgotten, Warbling Collective, 155A Artists Space, London We Only Have Fun On Certain Days, Warbling Collective, Stour Space, London 2018 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent SFSA Painting Open 2018, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London Let Me Know Before You Arrive, Warbling Collective, Bethnal Green, London The Barren Slope, curated by Tom Elliott, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Graduate Exhibition, Holborn, London Tomorrow's Daydream, AMP Gallery, Meeting House Lane, London 2017 Osman’s Xmas Bazaar, Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London Painting Open 2017, Second Floor Studios, No Format Gallery, London APT Open Studios guest artist, Creekside, Deptford, London Small World, Manifest, PS Mirabel, Manchester Creekside Open selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, London 1992–2016 Suppose an Eyes event, Alpha Nova Futura, Berlin and Chelsea College of Art, London Marks of Intent, with Helen Booth, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales Small Memories, The Art Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales Close at Hand, co-curated with Gavin Maughfling, Contemporary Art Projects, London Talkshow, Lounge, Dalston, London Deptford X, Open Astra House, New Cross, LondonPride In The House, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London Sense and Nonsense, Danielle Arnaud, LondonPicturesque, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, CarlisleArtfutures, Contemporary Art Society, LondonBittersweet, Danielle Arnaud, London&nbsp; Glass Border, co-curated with Nicky Coutts, Danielle Arnaud, London Reclaiming the Madonna, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; London &amp; Cardiff Landschaft, woods near Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany TRAINING 2013–2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; Post graduate diploma in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College 1992–1993 &nbsp; &nbsp; Advanced Fine Art, Central St Martin’s 1985–1992 &nbsp; &nbsp; BA Hons Fine Art &amp; Critical Studies, Central St Martin’s 1984–1985 &nbsp; &nbsp; Lina Garnade Foundation course, Southwark, London nickyhodge4@gmail.com