Stuart Dodman

Stuart Dodman is a British artist based in Brighton whose practice spans painting, drawing, installation, and sound. Working across these forms, he explores the act of making as a space where gesture, repetition, and doing produce histories of labour, failure, and endeavour.

At the heart of Dodman’s work is a concern with how marks and materials carry time, memory, and importance. His drawn paintings evolve through the layering and erasure of surfaces, allowing forms to emerge through accumulation of marks while reducing material. Paint is applied, carved back, reworked, and sometimes scraped away entirely—leaving behind a residue of past attempts that informs new ones.

While his work moves fluidly between media his main output is painting, often in series, which is rooted in the physical and psychological implications of mark-making, how every action leaves a trace, and how those traces are permanent. Dodman’s practice invites viewers into a visual and spatial language built from repetition, disruption, and return.

What results is a body of work that asks what it means to make knowing that each decision, even when reversed, still leaves something behind.

Dodman holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. Al...

Sheffield Hallam University, BA, Fine Art (Hons) 1995
Northbrook College, HND, General Art and Design 1992

Resame EP - time limited self release 2019
you fill me reissue, and/OAR records - digital release 2018
Framework Radio - Resonance fm - UK, Wave Farm - NYC - artist focus March 2018
No Name, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2016
ESO, group show, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, July-2nd October 2016
Art in Brighton, 2016 (publication)
Artslant, Drawing winner, August 2015
Art in Brighton, 2015 (publication)
Brighton Dome, group show, 2015
"we'll have today" solo show, Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton 2014
Brighton Artists Book, 2014 (publication)
Relentless Art Show - curator, contributor and organiser, Brighton Fringe Festival, 2010
Relentless Art Show - curator, contributor and organiser, Brighton Fringe Festival, 2009
Relentless Art Show - curator, contributor and organiser, Brighton Fringe Festival, 2008
Grain – Sound Installation, Rochester, 2007
Breaking down the barriers 1995-2005 10 years of AFE – Sound Art – Internet release, 2005
Amalgam - Sound art CD – Released on con-v records, 2005
you fill me - Sound art CD - Released on and/OAR records (and13), 2004