Writing

‘Like a matryoshka doll, artist Delpha Hudson’s paintings are composed of layers. Hudson rethinks the distant past, creating a new symbolic medievalism that she describes as a ‘productive disorientation of old narratives.’ Hudson’s historical research has shaped her current revisionist perspective. When asked what she has learned from studying previous eras, she explains that, ‘what I have realised is that the past constantly changes – we write and rewrite it based on where we are now’….

Continue reading Moriah Ogunbiyi’s text ‘The Re-imagination of Female Narratives’

Martin Holman writing on paintings and installations, 2019

‘Recent paintings are distinctive for the hive of detailed making on which the final surface rests. Process extends from the intricacy of drawing to the complexity of composition and on toward the application of colour. Executed on a canvas support, Hudson has adopted bitumen as a medium, dripping a viscous trail onto the primed surface. Even more so than oil paint, bitumen is a tricky, dirty material’ …Read more

In addition to thinking of painting as ‘visual texts’ writing is integral to Delpha’s creative process.

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Some older writing. For more writing about art and motherhood and recent writing on Matrescence go Delpha’s archive