Dex Hannon Northumberland, United Kingdom
British Multimedia Artist, originally from Manchester now based in the North East. His art lives in several private collections across the world. In 2025, he won the Collectors' Art Prize - Legends of Our Time Award. In 2020, he won best in show for the International Art Folio 2020 Annual award. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Refresh Art Prize 2019.
Born in Manchester in 1972, Dex Hannon is a British abstract expressionist and multimedia artist whose work encompasses paint, digital art, film, sound, and photography.
Dex Hannon’s practice is an exploration of transformation and reinvention. At its core is a guiding question: “What else could it be?” A single frame can ignite an entire cascade of creation, a painting, a film or a digital work, each one carrying within it the potential for the next. In this recursive approach, the boundaries between mediums dissolve. Paintings give rise to films, films fracture into digital works, and digital interventions in turn inspire new material explorations. Nothing is ever final. Each work functions simultaneously as culmination and inception, a node within an expanding network of possibility.
Hannon works across painting, film and digital media, frequently collaborating with alter egos such as Skin Vehicles to expand the dialogue between sound, image and motion. The practice is not constrained by the conventions of medium, chronology or narrative. Instead it embraces instability, evolution, chance and the unpredictable trajectories of artistic experimentation.
The work invites the viewer into a space where memory, perception and imagination intersect. Scale, materiality and temporal shift become tools for reflection, while the recursive methodology challenges assumptions about originality, finality and authorship. Hannon’s oeuvre is less concerned with depiction than with enactment, offering a lens through which audiences can reconsider not only what art is but what it might catalyse in thought and experience.
Artwork
skllfkbylyf, Video, 2024
We are all lost transmissions looking for a source, Acrylic on canvas, 2021, 2000
Drifting through Cerebral Sunsets, Acrylic on canvas, 2021, £1750
Atomic Balance , Oil Paint on Canvas, 2017
The Cold Dead Heart Exploded, Oil Paint on Canvas, 2017, SOLD
SPINE, Acrylic on Canvas, 2017
Dream Stealers, Digital Remix on canvas, 2016
Broken Boned & Bleeding out, Acrylic on Canvas, 2017
Dis-Funk-Shun, Acrylic on Canvas, 2017
Fractures, Oil on Canvas, 2018, 1100
Flesh JunkShun, Acrylic on Canvas, 2017, 1450
The Hidden Truth of Domestic Bliss, Acrylic on canvas, 2018, On request
Sugar Pop Dream Factory, Oil on Canvas, 2018, £1300
I Clipped my own wings and fell through the earth , Oil on Canvas, 2018, £1600
Quantum Superposition, Oil on Canvas, 2019, 1600
Dreams Moonbeams and Street scenes, Oil on Canvas, 2019, 1450
chrysalis, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020, 1400
Fury in the eyes of those left behind, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020, 1400
The Decline of Empires, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
Foundation of forgotten buildings, Acrylic on canvas, 2017, 1450
Carving Her way through the Dancefloor, Oil On Canvas, 2020, £1600
G-Spot Tornado, Acrylic on canvas, 2021, 1750
Razor Blade Cold, Acrylic on canvas, 2021, 1500
We are in Decline, Digital Remix, 2024, £885
Bridgets Blockhouse Blues, Digital Remix, 2024, £450
What was in thatDrink?, Digital Remix, 2024, £885
Red Block Blue, Digital Remix, 2024, £782
Blythian Memes, Video, 2024
State of Flux - Video art idea exploration, Video, 2024
Wichita Vortex, Acrylic on Canvas, 2021, £1600
Projects and exhibitions
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Blythian Memes12/09/2025 — ongoing An artist is launching a new exhibition of his work in Blyth. Artist Dex Hannon brings a deeply personal and visually striking tribute to the town with his new exhibition, Blythian Memes. The exhibition draws from Hannon’s animated abstract film of the same name, exploring the imagery, structures, and cultural motifs (memes) that define... [Read more] |
Republic Gallery, Blyth Northumberland | Details |
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Spring Awakenings02/05/2025 — 24/05/2024 Open exhibition |
Fox Yard Studio Art Gallery, Stowmarket | Details |
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Wow Northumberland 202614/02/2025 — 03/07/2025 Open Exhibition celebrating Northumberland Artists |
Woodhorn Museum, Ashington | Details |
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Abstract Painting06/09/2024 — 07/10/2024 From the light infused landscapes by @stevethompsonartist the alchemic immersive abstracts by @amandaburtonart Striking layered and graphic paintings by @dexhannonartist and the process driven dot work by Simon SB Brought together beautifully in one space - IV is an exhibition of abstract paintings you’ll not want to miss. Gallery... [Read more] |
Northlight Arts, Leeds | Details |
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The Path - Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, during the Venice Biennale03/09/2024 — 06/11/2024 This show, The PATH at Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, takes place during the Venice Biennale 2024. Once again my focus is on Blyth for this artwork, digital remixing the Northumberland flag with the WW2 bunker that can be found in Blyth. "Coal Dust to Crushed Clean Pixels" captures Northumberland's transition from industrial heritage to a... [Read more] |
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice | Details |
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Wow Northumberland15/02/2024 — 07/05/2024 Joint Show Northumberland |
Woodhorn Museum, Ashington | Details |
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Kraftstrom - B22 at the Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru01/11/2022 — 30/11/2022 Invited to show a series of works |
Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru, Cusco Peru | Details |
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Editions11/08/2017 — 29/08/2017 EDITIONS (JOINT SHOW) 17/08/2017 – 28/08/2017 Join us for a preview evening and meet the artists on 17th August Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Duke St, Leeds LS9 8AG Dex Hannon will be showing some of his Digital Remix works alongside 7 other artists. |
Leeds Gallery, Leeds | Details |
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Artist of the Month July 201701/07/2017 — 31/07/2017 Featured artist for July on UK Artists website. http://www.ukartistsonline.com/blog-post.aspx?id=37 |
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A Hero's Journey01/07/2017 An interview with Peter DeKuster for the website 'A Hero's Journey.' interviews with creatives living their dreams. https://theherojourney2016.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/the-heros-journey-of-dex-hannon/ |
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Art Share Love01/06/2017 — 30/06/2017 Listed in the magazines top 10 Abstract Artists to watch - 2017 June Issue of Art Share Love http://bit.ly/2rBo7vs |
June Issue | Details |
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Featured Artist Lumi-Arts01/06/2017 — 30/06/2017 Featured Artist on LumiArts website. http://www.lumiarts.co.uk/artist-in-focus-dex-hannon/ |
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Top 50 Artists01/09/2016 — 01/09/2017 Chosen as one of the top 50 artists for the magazine Art Share Love https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/69e946_e7257270c94145d8a64654804e52d54b.pdf |
Art Share Love magazine | Details |
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A Collection of Broken Toys01/10/2015 — 30/11/2015 Solo show of Dex Hannon's work and performance of the Synaesthesia Colours Sound Project. A multi media collaborative project. |
Kunsthuis Art Gallery York, York | Details |
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Analogue vs Digital08/07/2015 — 16/09/2015 A show bringing together the paintings (analogue) and (Digital) remixes. |
Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds | Details |