Carol Hodder

A self-taught artist, Carol Hodder’s primary concern is with the act of painting and its process. Layers of paint are built up and inform what emerges on the surface, which is a landscape of emotion and memory, tempered by elemental imagery and with boundaries that are blurred or defined. She seeks to unearth; to put back in place that which seems hidden or lost. 

Hodder is a Fellow of the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, has served on the Board of the Sirius Arts Centre and in 2017 was invited to undertake a two month Artist in Residency at the celebrated Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut USA, which was grant aided by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2019 Hodder undertook a Residency at Nes, Skagaströnd, Iceland.  Hodder has had works selected by the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Royal Ulster Academy and the prestigious summer show at the Royal Academy in London. In 2015 she won the Republic of Ireland Award for the UK’s esteemed National Open Art Exhibition. Public collections include The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, the Office of Public Works, Cork University Hospital, Limerick County Council, Bank of Ireland, Scott Tallon Walker and the Druid’s Glen Hotel in Co. Wicklow.

An exhibition of new work by Carol Hodder will take place at Solomon from 28 August - 20 September 2025