[3] At the Slade School under the Professorship of Lawrence Gowing, she was a student of Paula Rego, Stanley Jones and John Hoyland.
Hodes’ practice is informed by her experience as a painter and is investigated through large scale papercuts which have been both digitally collaged and intricately hand cut, as well as ornately decorated ceramic vessels, tableware and glass.
Her work questions hierarchies of the female figure as represented in art history, as a decorative motif and as being inextricably linked to the domestic.
In 2006 she was awarded the Jerwood Drawing Prize[6] and in 2009 held a solo exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art[7] She has participated in many group exhibitions both nationally and internationally including ‘Digital Responses’ Victoria and Albert Museum 2003,[8] ‘Somewhere Totally Else’ Design Biennial, Design Museum London 2003, ‘Glasstress’ Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti 53rdInternational Venice Biennale[9] 2009, ‘Inscription: Thinking/Drawing/Making’ Jerwood Space Gallery London 2010[10] and in 2012 featured in an exhibition at No.10 Downing Street curated by Janice Blackburn.
Hodes has collaborated with a number of studios and industry including Spode, Park Rose Ceramics Yorkshire, Centre for Fine Art Print, University of West of England,[11] National Glass Centre[12] University of Sunderland, Berengo Studio,[13] Murano and Venice Projects Italy.