Sam Hodge

Sam Hodge a painter and printmaker born in Kent and now based in London at Chisenhale Studios and East London Printmakers. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and Painting Conservation at the Courtauld Institute of Art and worked as a painting conservator, before starting to play seriously at making her own prints and paintings in 2008. Since then, she has exhibited widely in The UK and abroad. Her work often makes use of found materials. Earths, plants and human debris are transformed into pigments and inks and encouraged to make their marks on paper, while the ambiguous forms of disintegrating pieces of rubbish that she has found are transferred onto paper using printmaking processes. Through her focus on transformations in matter over time she explores our entanglement with the material world and our reactions to its shifting and unstable nature.