CreatorChristopher HodgesTitleDaisy TableDate2008MediumStainless steel and glassDimensionsH. 76.5cm x W. 72.5cmAccession Number024.2018Credit LineDonated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Michael Musgrave in memory of Catherine AlexanderAccess AdviceFor research purposes only. No reproduction without permission of Yarrila Arts and Museum.
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Significance Statement
Chris Hodges (b. 1954) is an artist and self-described 'accidental' dealer of Indigenous (particularly associated with the Papunya Tula masters) and contemporary Australian art. His practice in art making spans the formal mediums of sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. His work in sculpture [is] abstract, and pays respect to the formal developments that occurred in Australian art after the wars — the kind immortalised in The Field (NGV, 1968).
Hodges began a prolific exhibiting career in 1979 with Coventry Gallery, and has been self-represented under Utopia Art Sydney from its inception in 1988. He has shown variously with regional galleries and has been included in prominent Institutional surveys: 'Faces of Hope', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (1997); 'Pathways', Queensland Art Gallery, QLD (1995); 'Commitments', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD (1993); 'A New Generation', Australian National Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT (1988).
The work being donated is essentially a functional sculpture. Its form is as a stylised silhouette of a daisy, with a base that adheres to the simple rules of good Bauhaus design.
Hodges has exhibited reliefs of the same motif before. This is a unique adaptation, which was commissioned by the donor.
