Phoebe Hudson

(b.1996)

Education

MA Painting, Royal College of Art 2022

BA Drawing and Print, University of the West of England, 2019

Statement

My work responds to patterns that emerge from intricate workings in our environment. I examine the repetition, tension, and irregularities produced within these structures.

My research is rooted in microbial relationships, observing their foundational role in both geological and biological time, understanding them as connective tissue between mind, gut, flesh, soil, life and decay. 

I am interested in what we can learn from these networks of threads, fibres, cells and spores - their processes of picking apart, dissecting, reassembling, fusing and stitching together - to better understand our relationship with material and matter.In my work, I reimagine this through the rituals embedded in traditional processes such as weaving, felting, paper and pigment making and how these can serve as a means of slowing down and reintegrating ourselves into cycles of growth and decay.

The grid is an important structure in my work. An interlacing of line in which objects, information, plotting or reference points can be viewed and situated in relation to one another. Throughout our existence we have used diagrams, geometric forms and pattern to try and make sense and order of our place in the world. They serve as a place to store or exchange information. Records of places, people, environment and time. Navigating the emergence of patterns, repetition, order or rhythmic cycles. My work considers the instinctive draw we have to this visual language and its capabilities to impact optical and cognitive function. They are consistently used as a basis for composition in my practice, forming an intricate study of the interaction of colour, line, surface and edge - vibration, conflict and harmony between, and disruption of these elements. Like diagrammatical communication networks. Individual elements crossing paths, sharing information, creating new pathways and interactions.

Shows

‘B2L Yard show’ April 2025, London

‘LUNARIA’ January 2025, KIT FORM, Bristol

‘GINKGO’ January 2024, KIT FORM, Bristol

‘TERRA’ September 2022, SET studios gallery, London 

‘Immersions: into the river Cam’ June 2022, Robinson College, Cambridge 

‘RCA 2022’ June 2022, The Painting Building, London

‘Plotting points’ May 2022, Savernake forest, Wiltshire

‘Weaving Springtime’ April 2022, Hoxton Trust, London