Eileen Hogan


Eileen Hogan is an English painter and book artist. She is a Research Professor at Wimbledon College of Art, a patron of Mindroom and a trustee of the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Life and work

Hogan was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Arts, the Royal Academy Schools, the British School of Archaeology at Athens and the Royal College of Art. Robert Medley, Head of Painting at Camberwell, was himself an influence on Hogan, and provided his students with an eclectic mix of visiting lecturers, including Frank Auerbach, Ronald Kitaj, Anthony Fry, Patrick Procktor and Euan Uglow.
Hogan remembers:
Carel Weight was the Professor of Painting at the RCA and in a catalogue for an exhibition of Hogan's paintings at The Fine Art Society in 1993 he wrote:
George Melly wrote in The Guardian about a painting from the time when Hogan lived in Athens:
Hogan has shown regularly at The Fine Art Society, London since 1980 – the most recent exhibition being with the painter Leonard Rosoman RA in 2008. Commissions and awards include recording the Women's Royal Naval Services for the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum, a Churchill Traveling Fellowship for research in America, Australia and Japan, and most recently, in 2009, as the Artist-in-Residence for The All England Lawn Tennis Club Championships.
Throughout Hogan's career, her paintings have related to places which have significance for her, and she has developed specific projects over a number of years. She painted Ian Hamilton Finlay in his garden at Little Sparta, between 1997 and 2006. Other portraits include Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover, formerly Anya Linden, ballerina, shown in the BP Portrait Award 2009.
In 2006 The Fine Art Society exhibited her series of paintings based around four garden squares, near her home. Christopher Gibbs wrote in the accompanying publication:
Hogan's interest in book art was triggered by her love of lettering, the relationship between words and images and lettering as drawing. She produced three books with the Lion and Unicorn Press when she was a student at the Royal College of Art and went on to establish The Camberwell Press at Camberwell College of Arts, and was its Director from 1984 to 1997. Recent exhibitions of Hogan's book art include Eileen Hogan's Poetry Box in 2007, in 2009 Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bindings for Eileen Hogan Victoria and Albert Museum. and in the same exhibition, expanded to include Saumarez Smith's jewelry and Hogan's portraits of Saumarez Smith, at the Yale Center for British Art in 2010.

2019 - Personal Geographies: Yale Center for British Art

Earlier solo exhibitions include at the Imperial War Museum and the British Council in Athens

Selected public collections