199. Dannielle Hodson - Sara

2026
Oil on panel
17 x 12.5 cm

Dannielle Hodson’s paintings operate within an arena of excess, drawing on research into the monstrous across social science, psychology, fairytales, and horror. Her work examines transformation, mutation, and chaotic emergence, focusing on forms that become monstrous through processes of change itself — entities that resist wholeness, stability, or fixed identity.

Characterised by dense visual information and layered imagery, the paintings operate through a logic akin to quantum superposition, in which multiple contradictory states coexist simultaneously. Figures appear and dissolve at once, while coherence and collapse occupy the same pictorial space. Meaning remains unstable and contingent on perception, implicating the viewer in a moment of visual “collapse” where one interpretation briefly emerges without resolving the image entirely.

Rejecting closure or certainty, Hodson’s work embraces perpetual becoming. Multiplicity is treated not as something to be resolved, but as an ontological condition, producing unstable surfaces where form and formlessness, past and present, coexist in sustained ambiguity. Through this tension, her paintings investigate instability, perception, and the psychological dimensions of transformation.

Hodson completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2023–2024), following the Turps Banana Studio Painting Programme (2019–2021) and an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (2015–2017).

Recent exhibitions include MEGA Art Fair with Gallerie Brescia (2026); Songs of Innocence and Experience at Gallerie Brescia, Brescia (2025); Through the Looking Glass at JD Malat Gallery, London (2025); Forking Paths at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York (solo, 2025); Untitled Art Fair, Miami with Kravets Wehby Gallery (2025); Chasing Rabbits at Kravets Wehby, New York (solo, 2024); Being Human at Morris Adjmi Architects, New York (2024); Untitled Art Fair with Kravets Wehby, Miami (2024); Apocalyptic Changes of State at BWG Gallery, London (2024); EXPO Chicago with Kravets Wehby (2024); and Palimpsestic Impressions at Arusha Gallery, London (2024).

Her work is held in the Royal College of Art Public Collection and in numerous private collections internationally.