About
GEOFF HODGSON
Website: www.geoffhodgsonphotography.com
E-mail: geoff@geoffhodgsonphotography.com
Hodgson is based in Worcestershire and works mainly around the coast of England where he makes photographs in the traditional seaside holiday resorts. It is in these resorts that he searches out the seemingly mundane objects that abound on the promenades in these classic towns, many of which have seen better days and were popular before cheap, package holidays and airfares put paid to their popularity. By isolating these objects against the sea and the sky, and by avoiding the inclusion of people, he makes the ordinary into the extraordinary thus creating artworks from what many would regard as not worth a second glance.
In much of his other work Hodgson photographs isolated objects and buildings away from the coast but following a similar modus operandi as the seaside work.
Education
2010 MA in Photographic Studies (Merit) University of Westminster
2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography University of Gloucestershire
Recent Exhibitions:
2018. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017 Photography Prize Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2017 Ludlow 7, the Photo Space, Ludlow
2016 East meets West, Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham
2016 East meets West, Quad Gallery, Derby
2016 Open Art Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2015 Photography Prize: Urban Life Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2015 Open Art Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2015 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2015 Urban Life, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2015 Creekside Open, Deptford, London selected by Richard Deacon
2015 Creekside Open, Deptford, London selected by Lisa Milroy
2015 'Scapes Exhibition, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 Image Conscious, Marburea Gallery Macclesfield, Cheshire
2013 Contemporary Landscape Photography Open, Worcester
2013 Tate Britain, London, Urban Encounters: Urban Materialities
2013 The Public, Summer Exhibition 2013, Sandwell, West Bromwich
2013 The Ludlow Open 2013, Ludlow, Shropshire
2013 The Worcester Open 2013, Worcester
2013 The International Postcard Show; The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2012 Obsidian Art Gallery, Stoke Mandeville
2012 The Rhubarb Gathering, Diemar/Noble Gallery, London
2012 The International Postcard Show; The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2011 Worcestershire Contemporary Art Show, Artrix Gallery, Bromsgrove
2010 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Avon
2010 Light Sensitive, Ambica P3 Gallery, London
2010 West Midlands Open, Birmingham Art Gallery
2008 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2008 Summerfield Gallery, University of Gloucestershire
2007 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2007 BIPP/Towergate Fine Art Competition, London
2006 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2005 London Salon of Photography
Website: www.geoffhodgsonphotography.com
E-mail: geoff@geoffhodgsonphotography.com
Hodgson is based in Worcestershire and works mainly around the coast of England where he makes photographs in the traditional seaside holiday resorts. It is in these resorts that he searches out the seemingly mundane objects that abound on the promenades in these classic towns, many of which have seen better days and were popular before cheap, package holidays and airfares put paid to their popularity. By isolating these objects against the sea and the sky, and by avoiding the inclusion of people, he makes the ordinary into the extraordinary thus creating artworks from what many would regard as not worth a second glance.
In much of his other work Hodgson photographs isolated objects and buildings away from the coast but following a similar modus operandi as the seaside work.
Education
2010 MA in Photographic Studies (Merit) University of Westminster
2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography University of Gloucestershire
Recent Exhibitions:
2018. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017 Photography Prize Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2017 Ludlow 7, the Photo Space, Ludlow
2016 East meets West, Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham
2016 East meets West, Quad Gallery, Derby
2016 Open Art Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2015 Photography Prize: Urban Life Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2015 Open Art Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2015 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2015 Urban Life, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2015 Creekside Open, Deptford, London selected by Richard Deacon
2015 Creekside Open, Deptford, London selected by Lisa Milroy
2015 'Scapes Exhibition, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 Image Conscious, Marburea Gallery Macclesfield, Cheshire
2013 Contemporary Landscape Photography Open, Worcester
2013 Tate Britain, London, Urban Encounters: Urban Materialities
2013 The Public, Summer Exhibition 2013, Sandwell, West Bromwich
2013 The Ludlow Open 2013, Ludlow, Shropshire
2013 The Worcester Open 2013, Worcester
2013 The International Postcard Show; The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2012 Obsidian Art Gallery, Stoke Mandeville
2012 The Rhubarb Gathering, Diemar/Noble Gallery, London
2012 The International Postcard Show; The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2011 Worcestershire Contemporary Art Show, Artrix Gallery, Bromsgrove
2010 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Avon
2010 Light Sensitive, Ambica P3 Gallery, London
2010 West Midlands Open, Birmingham Art Gallery
2008 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2008 Summerfield Gallery, University of Gloucestershire
2007 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2007 BIPP/Towergate Fine Art Competition, London
2006 Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition
2005 London Salon of Photography