Delpha Hudson
Art making is a means of reconnecting the alternative values of past cultures to the present, and addressing issues of resistance, sustainability, and economies of care.
I use painting as a way of thinking through complex systems with multiple and entangled narratives. My tapestry-like ‘history’ paintings use a vernacular of interpretable figures, colours, symbols and patterns to tell stories about women’s lives. Assimilating mythologies from the past and realising them in a language of the present explores empathy and what we value now.
Idealised and fluid female archetypes satirise hierarchies in which women have so often been absent. They are surrounded by surreal landscapes and domestic patterns that heave with carnivalesque hybrid figures, patterns and symbols that create new fictions and polyphonic stories that create relatable and transformative experiences about our lives.
Painting installations combine painting with found objects, including local granite egg stones and domestic furniture. Performance and film works use reflexive processes of embodiment in local landscapes as a vehicle to empower and connect. Visual storytelling creates equality, visibility and value for women’s bodily experiences of mothering and caring for the natural world.
Delpha Hudson, 2025
Selected by curator Dr Matt Retallick for Longya at Tremenheere Gallery & shown at Falmouth Painting Platform 2025
A common treasury for all, acrylic on canvas, 200x180cm, 2023 Shown at Right to Roam, Fish Factory 2024
Shown at Between Earth and Sky, Stroud, 2023
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Work on paper
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Older paintings that use bitumen as a conceptual medium
Read about the ideas behind these paintings
Feral Mothers performance collaboration with Helen Sargeant.
Performance, film and installation projects
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