Lot 84

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Ariana Grande by Hodges is a portrait distilled and abstracted, elegant in both colour palette and composition.

Paul Hodges is a mid-career artist known for his masterful figurative paintings. A refined draughtsman and exceptional colourist, Hodges preferred medium is painting. He has worked across a variety of mediums throughout his career, including ceramics, wearable art, printmaking, digital drawing and animation. Drawing on references from magazines and books, his subject matter is diverse and is inspired by dancers, fashion, pop icons and the romantic Old Masters.

Paul Hodges has been a regular studio artist at Arts Project Australia since 1998 and held his first solo exhibition at Arts Project Australia in 2015. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Outsider Art Fair, DUTTON Gallery, New York. His work is held in the National Gallery of Victoria (as gifted by Stuart Purves) and in private collections throughout Australia.