Hannah Casey

Hannah Casey is painter who lives and works in Belfast. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally in Berlin, Paris, New York and Reykjavik.
Casey works mostly in small scale on a variety of grounds of wood, paper, board and metal. She favours a broad range of materials often contrasting her thick, gestural, impasto mark making with layers of intensely defined, linear compositions in pen. Each work is unified by her use of vibrant colour.
The scale of her work, somewhere between the size of a postcard and an airplane window, proposes an intimate viewing experience that conveys a sense of undoubtable sincerity. Always mindful of her audience, she creates perspectives that can sometimes challenge the viewer placing them precariously on a cliff edge or at a safe distance as if one is viewing the scene through binoculars. The landscapes portrayed in Casey’s paintings are places that can be visited once or a hundred times, but each time they will be different.

University of Ulster
MFA Painting

Education:
2013-2015 University of Ulster, MFA, Painting
2007-2009 University of Ulster, MDes Textile Design
2004-2007 University of Ulster, BA Hons Fine and Applied Art. First Class Honours
2003 University of Ulster, Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design

Selected Exhibitions:
2014
Out of the Ordinary, The Naughton Gallery, Belfast
MFA work in progress show, Platform Arts, Belfast
2013
TOTEMS for Household, Belfast
Long they look, and deeply, Satis House, Belfast
TOTEMS, tt gallery, Berlin
2012
OFORTUNA, New York
OFORTUNA, Berlin
OFORTUNA, Düsseldorf
OFORTUNA, Paris
Household, Collect and Display, Belfast
Trail Patterns, Srangford, Northern Ireland (solo)
him paintings, Gallery 2, Waterfront Hall, Belfast (solo)
Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers de Belleville, Paris
2011
The Public School of Embroidery, PS2 Gallery, Belfast
Occasional Gale, Reykjavik, Iceland
Recent work, Skullduggery, Belfast
2010
Blizzard Light, Five Paintings, Haymarket, Belfast (solo)
Postcard from an Unknown Artist, The Naughton Gallery, Belfast
2009
Notes and Volcanoes, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
Open House, The Freezer, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Pencil It In, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool
Allotments, G20 Gallery, Galway
Masters Show, University of Ulster, Belfast
2008
Drawing, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool
Techno Threads, Science Gallery, Dublin