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- R100 Robert Hodgins: A Life
Robert Hodgins: A Life: Sean O’Toole and Professor Michael Godby In Conversation
Monday, 18:30 to 20:30
5th August 2019
Robert Hodgins (1920–2010) was in his late sixties when, in 1986, he first came to national prominence with a survey exhibition in Grahamstown. Over the next two decades he consolidated his reputation as a formally inventive painter and printmaker interested in the human figure. Hodgins is best known for his abstracted studies of medal-festooned businessmen, pinstripe-suited businessmen and warring couples, often infused with satirical comment.
This conversation between art historian Michael Godby and critic Sean O’Toole will offer a biographical perspective on the artist, who also worked as a teacher and art critic before finding acclaim in his senior years.
Michael Godby, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, worked alongside Hodgins in the fine art department at the University of the Witwatersrand. He contributed essays on the artist to Hogarth in Johannesburg (Wits, 2001), Robert Hodgins (Tafelberg, 2002) and A Lasting Impression (Wits, 2012). Sean O’Toole is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine (London). His essays on Hodgins appear in The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins (Bell-Roberts, 2008) and A Lasting Impression.