Hanna Ten Doornkaat

born in Heidelberg, Germany
Living and working in UK

My intricate drawings explore mark-making as compound memory. Constructed from layer upon layer of rectilinear geometries, obsessively serialised marks and lines, my work incorporates process as signifier of human response to both the experiential, as defined by materials and memory, and the mind’s abstract construction of form
and meaning.

These are the words used by art historian Martin Kerrison who wrote about my work. Simply said I am interested in serial mark making and memory.

More recently my work has been described as follows:
"Between passivity and action. Hanna’s linear proposals not to primal marks. They are straightforward and not at all, as they project and deny a complexity of the art making process. Paint and graphite are adhered at different stages then often partially removed. The aesthetic derived from their removal is not entirely in the artist’s control. The result is the reveal of a process of assertion and denial.” extract from an essay by Jillian Knipe, artist and writer

MA Fine Art

Solo exhibitions:
2023
&gallery, Edinburgh
2022
Ezra Maas, Nothing Is More Real Than Nothing, Gallery46 Whitechapel, London
2021
&gallery, Edinburgh UK
Making a Mark, One Paved Court, Richmond upon Thames
2020
The Muse Gallery, London, UK (solo)

2018
'In the zero of form', One Paved Court, Richmond, UK

Group exhibitions:
2023
A Patch of Sky, 1 Paved Court, Richmond, London
Nothing is object all is subject, Stanley Picker Gallery, Project Space, Kingston upon Thames
International Biennial, d'art non-objectif, Ville de Pont de Claix, France
Velarde Gallery, Dorset
2022
Annual Winter exhibition, &gallery Edinburgh
Performative drawing, draw to perform, London
[ten]Hope, Oxo Gallery, London
Cluster Contemporary, Bargehouse, London,
INGDiscerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2021
AIR Open , Manchester
Leeds Summer Group show, leeds,
Too Young to Fruit, Brighton
Winter Group exhibition , &Gallery, Edinburgh
Tiny but Mighty, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2020
The land of Sol, Nouic, France
Drawing beyond itself, AIR Gallery, Manchester
&gallery, Edinburgh UK

2019
Personal Structures,
European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo, 58th Venice Biennale,
Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne
[un]seen, Arthouse1, London
Past and Present Tense, The Crypt Galle...