Biography of Robert Hodgins
Robert Hodgins was born in Dulwich, London in 1920. In 1938 he emigrated to South Africa and joined the Union Defence Forces in 1939. He served in Kenya until 1941 and in Egypt until 1944 and was discharged from service in 1945. He enrolled for an Emergency Teachers’ training course at Goldsmith College, London University in 1946 and obtained an Arts and Crafts Certificate (1951) and a National Diploma in Design, majoring in painting, in 1953. He returned to South Africa and became a lecturer at the School of Art, Pretoria Technical College in the same year. From 1962 he was a journalist and critic for Newscheck magazine. He lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand Fine Art Department from 1966 to 1983. He held numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad, most notably a countrywide retrospective in 1986. His work on paper has been shown by GALLERY AOP since 2001. He took part in international biennales. A Hodgins monograph was published in 2002. He held two honorary doctoral degrees: from Tshwane University of Technology (2004) and from the University of the Witwatersrand (2006). Robert Hodgins died on 15 March 2010.
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