Texts

There is not much to show, 30 years later, by the way of memorial to the impulse of sympathy and affection through which so many English children were invited to the U.S. After June 1940. For many of them, the trip meant primarily a change of schooling and an uncomfortable boat-ride; but here and there […]

Originally printed in Howard Hodgkin (New York: Gagosian, 2013). A catalogue made for Hodgkin’s exhibition which opened at their gallery in Rome in the same year.

Exhibition: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2012

A review of the show of Hodgkin’s paintings 2001-2010 at the San Diego Museum of Art, from the San Diego Reader.  The writer, W.S. Di Piero, is a Professor of English at Stanford University and a published poet.

At 78, Howard Hodgkin has slowed a bit, requiring a wheelchair lately to move about, but he remains quick as ever to speak his mind and, judging by the San Diego Museum of Art’s exhibition of his recent work, compelled as ever to paint the wealth of memories and sensations that occupy it.

A note on print-making with the 107 Workshop. Written for Christie’s, South Kensington, where 40 of Jack Shirreff’s printer’s proofs went on sale on 14 September 2010.

An interview by Stefan Kuiper, printed in Vrij Nederland, 28 August 2010, translated by Beth O’Brien

Exhibition: Gagosian Gallery, 2009

Exhibition: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2008

Exhibition: Tate Britain, 2006

To coincide with a retrospective exhibition of his work (at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid), Hodgkin reflected on works by Seurat in the Courtauld institute of Art Gallery in an interview with John-Paul Stonard, for Art and Architecture.

Extract from an interview with Michael White regarding Hodgkin’s design work for the stage.