Biography
Maureen Hodge (b. Perth, Scotland, UK 1941) studied stained glass at Edinburgh College of Art (1959-63) and held the Andrew Grant postgraduate scholarship in tapestry (1963-4). For nearly ten years she worked for Dovecoat Studios (Edinburgh Tapestry Co.) weaving tapestries by Archie Brennan, Harold Cohen, David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips and American artists like Dubuffet, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Nevelson and Noland whilst teaching at Edinburgh College of Art and later at Heriot Watt University until she retired in 2006.
Hodge has exhibited all over the world and has represented Britain in the Biennales in Lausanne and the Triennales at Lodz, as well as exhibiting in the Biennales in Szombathely, Hungary and the first Karpit show in Budapest. Her last solo show was in Kyoto in 2001.She has taken part in the first two ‘The Artapestry Shows’, and in the miniature tapestry exhibitions run by the Jean Lurcat Centre for Contemporary Tapestry at Angers. She represented the UK at the 12th Triennale of Tapestry at Lodz in Poland.
