Hannah Thomas Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Hannah Thomas is a British artist, currently based in Wiltshire, creating large abstract works on existential themes. She has a BA hons in Art and Visual Culture from University of West of England. Formally a professional photographer based in London, she changed to painting in 2017 in pursuit of greater artistic autonomy and in an attempt to revitalise her creative appetite and energy.
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, de-fanged 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 ageing 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
INTERIOR, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
MALCONTENT #5, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £1500
MALCONTENT #3, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £1500
Malcontent #2, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
Malcontent #1, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
Mental Freeze, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
Contrary, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022
SEASON OF THE WITCH #3, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
SEASON OF THE WITCH #5, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
SEASON OF THE WITCH #9, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
SEASON OF THE WITCH #12, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
SEASON OF THE WITCH #17, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 2022, £2000
Projects and exhibitions
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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 |