Hannah Thomas Wiltshire, United Kingdom
I am an abstract artist currently based in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. I work with acrylic based mediums and large canvases to create bold paintings probing the human condition. I did a BA in Art and Visual Culture at UWE in Bristol and worked as a music photographer in London; my move to painting was a vital transition that has become my obsession and greatest commitment.
I work as a full-time professional artist. My early development as a painter evolved in isolation based on a bedrock of ideas - Absurdism, a clarion call for personal autonomy and freedom in all things, the current societal attitudes that threaten that freedom and the inevitable moral relativism in all individuals.
They show absurdity, disorder, insensate and disembodied forms constrained and fragmented in these two dimensional spaces. Rough edges, traces of previous layers and colours bleeding into the present, evidence of brush strokes, older lines painted over, textural and substantial. Hints of biomorphic form, curving and suggestive shapes pressed together in enforced intimacy, sightless life encased in their tight little worlds emanating a wordless, formless desperation.
To me painting is all about a raw, instinctive response to an emotional condition, putting it on a canvas as truthfully as possible and in my own language. It is a chance to convey an interior world and to give form to a powerful existential desire for both freedom and connection. Lately, my ongoing themes of the absurd, romantic and chaotic have developed into more personal issues of conflicting desires, pressures of time and the constraints put on the individual by society: a plea for the release of one’s potency in a world that increasingly restricts and confines.
Artwork
RUBICON, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
TREMORS, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
GHOST TOWN, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
TEENAGE DREAM, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
'id', ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023, £3000
SEASON OF THE WITCH #17, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
SEASON OF THE WITCH #12, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
SEASON OF THE WITCH #9, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
SEASON OF THE WITCH #5, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
SEASON OF THE WITCH #3, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
Contrary, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £1500
Mental Freeze, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £1500
Malcontent #1, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
Malcontent #2, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
MALCONTENT #3, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
MALCONTENT #5, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £1500
INTERIOR, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
WILD PARADE, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
BLEEDING THROUGH, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
MIND'S EYE, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
INTERLOPER, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2023
Projects and exhibitions
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RADIO HAIR SALON01/02/2024 — ongoing EXHIBITION IN BOTH SALONS OF A FEW KEY PIECES FROM MY 'FRICTIONAL DRAG' SERIES. ON TILL MAY '24. |
KINGS CROSS & SHOREDITCH SALONS, LONDON | Details |
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AESTHETICA ART PRIZE 2024 - LONGLISTED01/02/2024 — ongoing SELECTED FOR THE LONGLIST FOR THIS PRIZE |
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SOLO SHOW - DUBEL PRIZE FINALIST07/12/2023 — 06/01/2024 CURRENTLY A FINALIST IN THE DUBEL PRIZE - WINNER ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 2024 THIS WAS MY SOLO EVENT TO SHOWCASE MY WORK |
RED EIGHT GALLERY, LONDON | Details |
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: AUC ART GROUP SHOW30/10/2023 — 05/11/2023 GROUP SHOW CURATED BY AUC ART |
Fitzrovia Gallery, LONDON | Details |
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CRICKHOWELL OPEN EXHIBITION26/05/2023 — ongoing ANNUAL OPEN ART COMPETITION - FINALISTS EXHIBITION |
ORIEL CRIC GALLERY, CRICKHOWELL, WALES. | Details |
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VAA International Exhibition and Scholarship Award01/03/2023 Winner |
London | Details |
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SECOND FLOOR STUDIOS & ARTS (SFSA) PAINTING OPEN 202201/12/2022 — ongoing SMALL WORKS - 30 CM LIMIT MY WORK, FRAGMENT #3, SOLD AT THE PRIVATE VIEW |
NO FORMAT GALLERY, DEPTFORD, LONDON | Details |
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ART ON A POSTCARD28/10/2022 — 15/11/2022 WINTER AUCTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR HEPATITIS C TRUST |
BOMB FACTORY, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON | Details |
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THE OTHER ART FAIR13/10/2022 — 16/10/2022 |
Truman Brewery, London | Details |
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TY PAWB OPEN 202210/10/2022 — ongoing FINALISTS EXHIBITION |
TY PAWB MUSEUM, WREXHAM | Details |
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Oxmarket Open 202201/08/2022 — ongoing Finalists exhibition for the Oxmarket Open 2022. |
Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, UK | Details |
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Emerge -See|Me25/04/2022 — 01/05/2022 I was one of two Grand Prize Winners for this competition, which as well as a cash prize hosted an exhibition of finalists/winners works in a gallery in NYC. |
Blue Gallery, New York City | Details |
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Artist to Watch '2212/04/2022 — ongoing Selected as one of ArtConnect's Artists to Watch '22. |
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Together/Somewhere - Visionary Projects & Art City Works04/03/2022 — 04/04/2022 Open Call exhibition - Collaboration between Visionary Projects and Art City Works. |
New York City | Details |
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London International Creative Competition (LICC) - Shortlist22/02/2022 LICC competition - Shortlisted for the Create (Art) category 2021. |
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Absurdist Dreams Exhibition - Albe Art Gallery15/05/2021 — 14/06/2021 Solo exhibition as a result of winning an Open Call, hosted by Albe Art Gallery. |
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Disrupting the Stillness - Visionary Projects & Lohme Art Gallery15/12/2020 — 15/01/2021 Open Call exhibition - Collaboration between Visionary Projects in NYC and Lohme Art Gallery in Sweden. |
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Rebel Visions - Solo Exhibition11/05/2019 — 20/06/2019 Solo exhibition of selection of works from Rebel Visions series in collaboration with Green Rooms Hotel in north London. |
Green Rooms Hotel, London | Details |