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Pete Hoida artist and poet, was born at
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in 1944. He is an abstract artist committed to the
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tradition. He ceased writing circa 1985, after which he dedicated his time wholly to painting. After a hiatus of 25 years he resumed writing and has had poems published 2011–2016.


Poetry

A 'Little Magazines' and 'Slim Volume' poet of the sixties/seventies, Hoida would be better represented by these later volumes: "Literary Breakfast", "The Correct Demanded Direction", and "Stumble", which were only printed in very small editions of 300 and received scant attention. His more noticed, very early published "Lips", would not represent him at his best. Also published: "Selected Poems of
Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European mod ...
" (Translation). More recently, poems have been published in magazines: 'Obsessed with Pipework'; 'The Rialto'. In 2016 'The Decline of Heavy Industry', a pamphlet of new poems was published. Hailed by the editor Philip Rush as "a return to poetry with fresh-eyed modernism".


Painting

Hoida studied painting at Hammersmith College of Art and Building (1969–1972) and
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School of Art, London University (1972–1974), painting thereafter from
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, Gloucestershire. "Marrying an abstract distinctly English landscape sensibility that draws on
Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced b ...
and
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with the fierce transatlantic colourism of
Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...
and
Nicolas de Staël Nicolas de Staël (; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. Early life ...
's velvety tachism, Hoida arrives at an intensely personal synthesis, resonating with landscape feeling." Or as Alan Gouk puts it "his colour is not just thought up in the studio as part of some "non-referential" building kit" or AG again, as above "….persist, nonetheless, in trying to render fulgent the fuliginous, to make clear things that are tacit and cloudy, that have no name until painted….." "...earthy and realistic, or realistic to the spirit of lyrical or lovely or moody feeling ..."). "Hoida's is of a more lyrical, European form of Abstract Expressionism. He is an English artist carrying on the grand traditions of English art from Constable's 'Six-Footers' to a euphoric use of colour that Hoida controls so well, so evocative but so differently spiced than Patrick Heron. His palette is his own and his art is to do with the essence of painting..". " 'This is a painting,' they say: ‘attend to the object itself; observe its mechanisms.’ But who can stop the play of the imagination? Hoida is a poet: there is nothing in his painting or his poetry that would suggest he would want to. He just likes to remind us that an artefact is just that: an object made with craft and cunning, the product of a specific sensibility, a mind and a memory, in time and space.”. Chris Stephens, Director of the
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wrote of Hoida: " A formative, youthful friendship was with the great Scottish poet
W.S. Graham William Sydney Graham (19 November 1918 – 9 January 1986) was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to th ...
much of whose work concerned itself with the craftsmanship of the medium, of the battle to assemble constructions of words that convey precise meaning without creating specific narratives. In his exploration of the inherent tension between the abstract qualities and evocative potential of his practice, Graham found a natural affinity with painters whose marks carried less inherent meaning than the poet’s words. One might see Hoida’s paintings in comparable ways to that constructed verse, his creation of blocks from a varied set of painting techniques like the construction of phrases, clauses or sentences and their assembly into a whole that is rich in its suggestive power but entirely non-representational."Chris Stephens, Catalogue introduction to 'Pete Hoida, NEW PAINTINGS' at APT Gallery, July 2019, In a video for 'Abstract Critical' made in 2013 Pete Hoida discusses his work with artist Graham Boyd. A short documentary film 'The Black Severn Angel' by Alasdair Ogilvie for Damnable Iron Films in 2015 shows Hoida in the studio and on location at the
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,
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Docks,
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, and
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. In the video 'Structure Through Colour" Mel Gooding analyses and appreciates Pete Hoida's paintings, 2016.


Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include: Axiom,
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, 1986; Guildhall Arts Centre, Gloucester, 1987 & 1992; The Living Room, London, 1994; Museum & Art Gallery, Cheltenham, 1995; 7 Goodge Place, London, 1997; deli Art, London, 2000; Ashcroft Modern Art,
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, 2006;
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, Stroud, 2007; SE1 Gallery, London, 2008; The Museum in the Park, Stroud, & St Mary of the Angels, 2013; HSoA Gallery, London, 2015; The Malthouse, Stroud, 2018; APT ( Art in Perpetuity Trust) Gallery, London, 2019 Selected group exhibitions include:
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, London; Spacex, Exeter; Pelter/Sands, Bristol; The
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,
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; The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Boundary Gallery, London; Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery; Gwl Gelf, Harlech Art Biennale; The Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath; Sun & Doves, London;
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, Bristol;
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, Halifax; The Social Bases of Abstract Art, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate


References


External links

* https://www.petehoida.co.uk
Pete Hoida in conversation with Graham Boyd



The Rialto
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