Eileen Hogan (born 1946) is a painter, who has shown in museums and private galleries in the UK and America. Her retrospective exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA in 2019, accompanied by a book published by Yale University Press, focused particularly on two dominant themes – enclosed gardens and portraiture. She is a professor at the University of the Arts London, a trustee of the Royal Drawing School, and an ambassador for the Salveson Mindroom Centre, a Scottish charity. She lives and works in London.

Education

Eileen Hogan studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Royal Academy Schools, Royal College of Art and the British School at Athens.

Work

Through painterly analysis Hogan explores the importance of green spaces in an urban environment. She investigates an expanded notion of what gardens are, their dynamics, the way that they are used, the patterns of life they generate and their impact on health. Hogan has used painting to sustain a visual reflection on biography, self-image, trace and informality in portraiture. Collaborating with an oral history charity, National Life Stories, at the British Library, she worked with an oral historian to establish the impact that a detailed narration of a life story might have on a sitter's presence. She expanded on this when she was one of five artists invited by Tate Research to each construct a filmed life class at Tate Modern (one thread of the Leverhulme-funded Tate research project: Art School Educated). Hogan's film explored the way that stories underlie how we see the world and it was shown in the Tate Britain Display – Reception, Rupture and Return: The Model and the Life Room in 2015. Her 'conversation' with Alan Rusbridger in 2021, after being commissioned to paint his portrait for Lady Margaret Hall, describes her process of painting Rusbridger during a very volatile period of history (2019–21).

Selected solo exhibitions

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