Interviews & Resources
Howard Hodgkin Talks About His Work
Date: 11-02-2011
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.
Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 11 February 2011
Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 11 February 2011
Working with the Printer
Date: 11-09-2010
Jack Shirreff, Howard Hodgkin's master printer at 107 Workshop,
Wiltshire, is retiring. He sold 40 of his printer's proofs of
works on which they collaborated over the last 24 years at Christie's South Kensingon on 14 September 2010.
One Day It Will Be Enough
Date: 28-08-2010
An interview by Stefan Kuiper, printed in Vrij Nederland, 28 August 2010, translated by Beth O'Brien
On Seurat
Date: 2006
An interview with John-Paul Stonard, from Art and Architecture, published by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2006
On Designing for the Stage
Date: 12-06-2002
Extract from an interview with Michael White, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2002
John Tusa Interviews Howard Hodgkin
Date: 2000
A transcript of John Tusa's interview with Howard Hodgkin for BBC Radio 3.
Howard Hodgkin has described his paintings in apparently very simple terms. "My subject matter", he has written, "is simple and straightforward. It ranges from views through windows, landscapes, occasional still life's, to memories of holidays, encounters with interiors and art collections, other people, other bodies, love affairs, sexual encounters and emotional situations of all kinds even, including eating". Well, the simplicity of that statement is only an apparent one. Using strong colours in bold sweeps, dots, curves, hooks, his pictures have very direct titles, things like Girl By a Window, Mrs Acton in Delhi, Coming Up From the Beach, and many more like that. Memory, the recapture of memory, is his subject, and he paints it with energy and passion and single-mindedness.
Howard Hodgkin was born in 1932, represented Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennale, was knighted in 1992 and has had major retrospective exhibitions in London , New York and around the world. Howard Hodgkin , in his own definition, paints representational pictures of emotional situations.
Howard Hodgkin has described his paintings in apparently very simple terms. "My subject matter", he has written, "is simple and straightforward. It ranges from views through windows, landscapes, occasional still life's, to memories of holidays, encounters with interiors and art collections, other people, other bodies, love affairs, sexual encounters and emotional situations of all kinds even, including eating". Well, the simplicity of that statement is only an apparent one. Using strong colours in bold sweeps, dots, curves, hooks, his pictures have very direct titles, things like Girl By a Window, Mrs Acton in Delhi, Coming Up From the Beach, and many more like that. Memory, the recapture of memory, is his subject, and he paints it with energy and passion and single-mindedness.
Howard Hodgkin was born in 1932, represented Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennale, was knighted in 1992 and has had major retrospective exhibitions in London , New York and around the world. Howard Hodgkin , in his own definition, paints representational pictures of emotional situations.
Where Silence Becomes Objects
Date: 1998
Interview
between Alan Woods and Howard Hodgkin from Transcript, Vol. 3, issue 2, 1998, ed. Alan Woods, published
by the School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
University of
Dundee, Scotland.
A Conversation with Howard Hodgkin
Date: 29-08-1993
Printed in the catalogue for the exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 19.10.1993 - 24.11.1993, also shown at Knoedler Gallery, New York, 4.12.1993 - 4.12.1994.
ISBN 0-947564-50-0,
Frances Spalding and Bloomsbury
Date: 1992
Frances Spalding interviewed Howard Hodgkin for The Charleston Magazine (a publication dedicated to the history, work and interrelationships of the Bloomsbury Group), which she edits, issue
6,
Winter/Spring 1992.
At the Venice Bienniale, 1984
Date: 1984
Interview by William Furlong inside the British Pavilion, 1984, for Audio Arts, now part of Tate archives
Interviewed by David Sylvester
Date: 1984
The interview was first printed in the catalogue for the British Council show, Forty Paintings 1973-1984, which began at the Venice Biennale and toured to the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Watching Howard Hodgkin Paint
Date: 16-11-1976
A report written by Bernard Richards, Fellow in English at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1972 to 1996, of watching Howard Hodgkin at work in his studio in Shoe Lane, Oxford on 16th November 1976