Eileen Hogan

What happens when you leave art school? In 1998 Professor Eileen HOgan found out. Leaving her post as Dean at Camberwell College of Arts, Professor Hogan began a year of prolific work that has taken her to Australia and Japan, to Kensington Gardens, into computer technology, into a book project with Louis de Bernieres and a poetry project with Thom Gunn. Her extraordinary years' work is gathered at this exhibition, Painting, Prints and Books in the South Gallery at the University of Brighton.

Changing weather, changing light, children and parents, kites and noises- dogs barking, children calling, radios playing - and the marginal sounds of birds and insects in Kensington Gardens have formed the inspiration for the series 'Places'. The changes and repetitions of activities around her fascinate Eileen. Sometimes she completes paintings on the spot, sometimes they are finished in the studio. She uses hand-made stretched paper fixed to the ground by brown, sticky paper. The support for the painting is an integral part of it. The brown tape and scraps of ground colour belong to the finished image.

Many of her paintings have people in them, not necessarily identifiable, photographic likeness, but recognisable through details - the shape of a head, a certain posture, a particular gesture, a detail of a dress or hair, It is by using this coded body language that she seeks to express the character of the people she paints, also her relationship with them.