Pete Hoida
Pete Hoida was born in Birkenhead in 1944. He ceased writing circa 1985, after which he dedicated his time wholly to painting.
Poetry
He would be better represented by these later volumes: final publication "Literary Breakfast",[1] "The Correct Demanded Direction",[2] and "Stumble",[3] which were only printed in very small editions of 300 and received scant attention. His more noticed, very early published "Lips",[4] would not represent him at his best. Also published: "Selected Poems of Blaise Cendrars" (Translation).[5]
Painting
He studied painting at Hammersmith College of Art and Building (1969–1972) and Goldsmiths College School of Art, London University (1972–1974), painting thereafter from Stroud, Gloucestershire.
"Marrying an abstract distinctly English landscape sensibility that draws on Patrick Heron and Ivon Hitchens with the fierce transatlantic colourism of Hans Hofmann and Nicolas de Stael's velvety tachism, Hoida arrives at an intensely personal synthesis, resonating with landscape feeling."[6] Or as Alan Gouk puts it[7] "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….."
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions include: Axiom, Cheltenham, 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, Cirencester, 2006; Subscription Rooms, Stroud, 2007; SE1 Gallery, London, 2008.
Selected group exhibitions include: Camden Arts Centre, London; Spacex, Exeter; Pelter/Sands, Bristol; The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; 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; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Dean Clough, Halifax.
References
- ^ privately printed 1985
- ^ Pig Press, Newcastle, ISBN 09903997452, 1979
- ^ Poet and Peasant Press, London, ISBN 0-9503761-1-6, 1975
- ^ Alison & Busby, London, ISBN 85031 067 9, 1972
- ^ Penguin, London, ISBN 0-14-042231-5, 1980
- ^ Thumbnails, Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries Magazine, May 2008
- ^ The Living Room Newsletter, January 1994
