The Agency

Gratin gallery is pleased to present John Hodgkinson's The Agency - the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. In October 2024, Hodgkinson began working as a background actor—often dressed as a Russian soldier—for The Agency, a TV series filmed for Paramount+. His experiences on set, particularly the repetitive journeys taken through the English countryside to shooting locations, inspired a new body of work. When traveling to shoot locations he began photographing fleeting landscapes from the window of a minibus. These blurred, rapid glimpses of trees, soil, and sky became the foundation of his paintings. At first glance, his works seem to belong to a romantic tradition of landscape art, but they often shift suddenly to capture the illusions of perception.