In this second artist’s ‘in conversation’ event, as part of the Recurring Intricacies exhibition, Shahidha Bari talks with artist Charlotte Hodes about what inspires the making of her work, especially the work in the current show at The Sherborne.
Charlotte Hodes’ work profiles her long-standing engagement with the crossovers between the fine and decorative arts, drawing on craft processes to create imagery firmly situated within the language of painting. She brings her experience as a painter to both her intricate papercuts, ceramic vases and large-scale installations in which ready-made ceramic ware serves as her alternative canvas. She often uses archives and collections as starting points for her projects, most recently Musée Ariana, Geneva as well as The Wallace Collection, London, the Spode Museum Trust and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Shahidha Bari is an academic, critic and broadcaster. She is a Professor at the University of the Arts London, a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking and Start the Week. She’s the author of “Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes” (2019), and “Look Again: Fashion” (2021) for Tate Britain. She was the winner of The Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize 2016 and has been a judge for the Forward Poetry Prizes, the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize and the Booker Prize. She writes for The Financial Times, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Frieze magazine.
