About

About my work

I investigate versions of reality, through an exploration of our relationship with materials, technology and each other.

Utilising the senses I aim to provide a space that both challenges and enables a rethinking of entrenched beliefs and patterns of thought and behaviour; a space that connects to, and has the potential for, creating new narratives for a more humane and sustainable future. 

My projects usually consists of three elements: photography, sculpture and connection/collaboration, combined into one project or addressed separately. More specifically I work with one of the oldest photographic processes called wet plate collodion. I am interested in this process because it is slow and physical in its creation, each image is unique and it shows the movement of chemicals across a metal plate and it reveals elements of the environment that it was taken in. Imperfect and lasting, it is the antithesis of the ‘selfie’ and consumerist culture.  

Biography

Kyna Hodges is a multi disciplinary artist working with photography, sculpture and connection/collaboration, primarily focusing on empowerment and the environment. Kyna is one of Scotland’s only female ‘wet plate collodion’ photographers using the time consuming, physical Victorian process.  

Kyna has always been fascinated by beauty, creativity and intensity, fostered by her time growing up in an artist community in South West Scotland. During her adolescence, she continued to seek out experiences and projects, creating youth festivals, costumed events and leading EU creative environmental campaigns. A creative activism course led her to apply to Glasgow School of Art (2014-17) where she developed her visual language and solidified her interests.  

After graduating, Kyna received a 6-month emerging artist bursary from Upland CIC to develop her professional art practice with mentoring and an exhibition. On moving to a feminist community at Lochwinnoch, she engaged with deeper active learning of collaboration, taking this knowledge to a 6 week residency in Sri Lanka where she created a work woven and painted by many hands. A job with the recycling clothing CIC ReMode, involved costume making skills, which she followed with a job in her hometown of Dumfries as a Curatorial Team member of Blueprint100, a youth focused creative project. This year long contract with Blueprint 100 was completed in March 2020 and she continues to explore identity and empowerment through her practice.