Inspired by Hodes’ papercut, Westley invites the artist to contribute to her reflection on the crafting of works that are classified as ‘art’.
Charlotte Hodes
Charlotte Hodes is Professor of Fine Art at London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London. At LCF, she is engaged in foregrounding drawing where she has led on research initiatives including at the National Gallery, NPG and The Line. She won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Errant Muse Victoria Gallery, Liverpool (with poet, Professor Deryn Rees-Jones) University of Liverpool 2019 – 2020; After the Taking of Tea Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales 2019; Remember Me Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2017 & National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford 2020 and Fragmented Images The Wallace Collection, 2007. Hodes has participated in exhibitions at Compton Verney, the Design Museum London, Jerwood Space Gallery, Venice Biennale and has collaborated with industry and research centres including Berengo Studio, Murano; National Glass Centre Sunderland; Spode and The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey