Hannah Weatherhead
Dover, Kent, United Kingdom
About Hannah Weatherhead
My primary approach towards making work is through painting. Current paintings explore both botanical imagery abstracted designs, inspired by anything from house plants to TV shows, to Instagram feeds. Pairing the two together offers more opportunities to expand my art practice. By utilising a variety of mediums to investigate the painted surface, abstract compositions, patterns and forms attempt to address and accept materiality within my work.
Motifs recur throughout my practice, and these repetitions enforce the texture and materiality of the works. Mark-making and patterns on abstract pieces can be seen as intervals between more realistic representations, and by contrasting chaos and order, they contain considered compositions and a common language between styles. For the viewer it should be about ambiguity, interpretation and surprise.
Having graduated from the University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury in 2011, I continue to develop my practice in Kent, and regularly exhibit nationwide.
Education:
University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
BA (hons) in Fine Art 2011
University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
Foundation in Art and Design 2008
Events:
Jun 2016 Creators Deserve To Be Seen, SeeMe Chashama Gala Event in Times Square, New York
Jun 2016 WHEREVER I MAY ROAM, Whitstable Biennialle Satellite Event
Aug 2015 Vauxhaul Art Car Boot Fair, Margate
Jul 2015 Room For Negotiation, Herbert Read Gallery.
Co-curated by James Collins, Katya Derksen, Luke Godfrey and Hann Weatherhead.
Mar 2012 CURIOUS/DUBIOUS, CRATE, Margate.
Co-curated by Claire Scott and Hannah Weatherhead
Exhibitions:
GROUP SHOWS:
Apr 2017: Fully Awake, Teaching Painting, BlipBlipBlip, Leeds
Jun 2016 Wherever I May Roam, Whitstable Satellite Project
Apr 2016 Oriel Davies Open 2016 Painting, Oriel Davies, Wales
Mar 2016 Wearing Trousers, Crate, Margate
Aug 2015 Griffin Gallery Open, London
Jul 2015 Room For Negotiation, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury.
Feb 2015 POP LIVING, Schwartz Gallery, London.
Aug 2014 Display Space, The Front Room at the Beaney, Canterbury
Aug 2014 OFF THE WALL, 9th Annual Terrace Open, Terrace Gallery, London
May 2014 PAINT LIKE YOU MEAN IT, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Jul 2013 HOT ONE HUNDRED, Schwartz Gallery, London
Apr 2013 Recollective Gallery, Market Drayton
Nov 2012 The General Medium, CRATE, Margate
May 2012 POST VIEW, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable
Jan 2012 What Next?, What If? Gallery, Dartford
Sep 2011 Second Rotation, UCA Pop Up Gallery, Pentagon Centre, Chatham
Sep 2011 Vanishing Point, UCA bar, Canterbury
Sep 2011 e.mer.gence, Gallery 3, Whitstable
Jul 2011 First Rotation, UCA Pop Up Gallery, Chatham
