About the work

I often use drawing to visualise larger works, and in this particular artwork I was exploring ideas for a construction in my studio. Building objects and environments in front of a camera has become an important part of my practice – and photographic records of these scenes are brought together with digital print, painted marks, and screen print to form large scale hybrid ‘paintings’. The figure glides in and out of my practice, as I look at certain ways in which image making is a construction, and how it can be taken apart and represented. Creating internal difficulties between the subject, object and image.

Date and country of birth

1972, GB

Career Highlights

Selected exhibitions: Myths and Dreams, Arkas Art Centre, İzmir, Turkey (2022); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2020); Grey and Beige Portfolio, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2017); Beauty by Design: Fashioning the Renaissance, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (2014); Paul Hodgson: New Works, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK (2010)

Collections: Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK; Imperial War Museum, London, UK; Monsen Collection, Seattle, USA; New Orleans Museum of Art, USA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA

Awards: Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA (2010)