Join us for an in-person Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Charlotte Hodes at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition

Join us in person for this special Girl Friday Breakfast Club event with Charlotte Hodes on Friday 18 September at 10am in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

Charlote Hodes (b.1959 London, UK) studied Foundation Course at Brighton College of Art (1977-78), Fine Art (Higher Diploma) & Painting (MA) at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (1978-84). Group exhibitions include: Recurring Intricacies, The Sherborne, Dorset, (2025); Joséphine Bowes: Trendsetters and Trailblazers, The Bowes Museum, Durham (2025); Liberté conditionnelle, Musée Ariana, Geneva (2024); Conversation Not Spectacle, Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (2024); Contem’plate, Messums West, Salisbury (2024); Pop Art & Pottery, Burton Art Gallery & Museum (2024). Solo exhibitions: Women Portraits: Trades & Professions, Gallery Oldham (2026); Conversations en Plein Air, Musée Ariana, Geneva (2023) & Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (2024); After the Taking of Tea, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales (2019); Remember Me, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2017). Awards: The Spode Copper Plate Archive, Arts Council England (2013); A Collaborative Investigation into the role of the Hand Craft & Digital Processes within Creative Practice, Arts & Humanities Research Council (2007); Associate Artist, The Wallace Collection (2005–07); First Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006. An Emerita Professor, University of the Arts London; and Member, Arts Collection Committee, British Academy. Lives and works: London, UK.

Selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026, Charlotte's drawing, Medicine, 2025, cut painted & printed papers, 142 x 164cm, is one of a series of works that relate to her current project, Women Portraits; Trades & Professions, which is engaged with the representation of trades and professions manifested as portraits of women. They celebrate the often-invisible contribution that women have made to many trades and professions that have hitherto been historically associated with men while women have been portrayed as ideals within arts and culture, as muses or as objects of beauty. In making these works she has substituted the pencil for the intricate cut line made using a scalpel. Each portrait, and in this case Medicine, proposes an alternative representation of women identified through the tools associated with each specific trade or profession. The representation of Medicine is through the image of the caring hand, gloved, alongside medical tools such as the stethoscope and surgical needles. The importance placed on the image of the hand directly references the hand-made aspect of my papercuts, as well as The Hospital Drawings of Barbara Hepworth and the poem These are the Hands by Michael Rosen.

Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator. She is the founding Director of the annual international Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize [since 1994], and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing and contemporary arts [since 2009].

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Professors Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker, eat breakfast and drink great coffee or tea together at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month.

This event will not be recorded, so do book to join in - pastries and juice will be available. Coffee maybe purchased at nearby cafes. Please note this event will take place in the exhibition in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf and limited seating will be available.

All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Image: Charlotte Hodes, Medicine, 2025, cut painted & printed papers, 142 x 164cm.

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