CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

Hannah Quinlivan's solo exhibition Turbulence is on until 1 December.

FLG is delighted to announce the release of Hannah Quinlivan’s monograph.

Hannah Quinlivan’s multi-disciplinary practice, incorporating installation, performance, printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture, stems from a process of linkage, both literal and conceptual. Referencing previous gestures and forms while also reaching out to explore new territories, its evolving quality gives Quinlivan’s work an organic, living quality while creating an immersive experience for the viewer.

Hannah Quinlivan is a young artist who has found her own distinctive voice, one which unites the intimate and the personal with the public and universal. Her art is distinctive, intense and very memorable. Sasha Grishin, 2018

This 250pp full colour book, from 2011- 2018, provides an in-depth introduction to Hannah Quinlivan's extensive art practice. Limited edition of 150, full colour, printed on satin art paper and PUR bound. Each book to be signed and editioned by the artist. Available for pre-purchase at FLG for $50 plus GST or via this link.

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* Read The Moving Impulses of Hannah Quinlivan article from Art World Women, March 2018

* Watch Quinlivan's Travelling Light performance at Deakin University, 2017

* Listen to ABC radio's Louise Maher's interview with Quinlivan, discussing her 2017 exhibition Anatomy of a Drawing at Canberra Museum and Gallery

* Watch Quinlivan speaking about her 2016 performance work Arrythmia at National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

* Watch Hannah's 'Synecdoche' Artist Talk at Flinders Lane Gallery in June 2016

* Quinlivan’s artworks will be featured on all 13 stops of the new Canberra Light Rail Network. This major public art commission is undertaken in conjunction with Urban Art Projects.

ARTIST PROFILE:
Hannah Quinlivan’s multi-disciplinary practice, incorporating installation, performance, printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture, stems from a process of linkage, both literal and conceptual. Referencing previous gestures and forms while also reaching out to explore new territories, this evolving quality gives Quinlivan’s work an organic, living quality while also creating an immersive experience for the viewer.

Through her various ways of exploring line and form – via drawing, painting, wire installation, LED drawing and in steel – Hannah challenges the way we expect drawing to be presented, and subsequently her work becomes experiential not only in physicality but also conceptually. Grappling with contemporary issues such as human migration and passages of travel, and more traditional explorations of landscape, remoteness and land masses, Hannah’s work has the power to inspire not only in how we respond to her pieces but also as artists and the way in which we should challenge ourselves.

Time is unfixed, flowing fickle, fluctuating. Temporal asymmetries cleave and splinter. Frozen, dripping, gushing, moments drift and rush. Turgidities turn turbulent, echoing the glacial groans and moans of collapsing time. Unevenly distributed duration unhinges the conditions of the everyday. Not just fast forward but also slow motion, time is out of joint, stretched thin like a membrane and compressed like wrinkled skin. Stress fractures and crumple zones contour the unnatural course of life, marking crisis and contradiction. Rhythmic dilation and compound acceleration, these are the conditions of still motion.
Hannah Quinlivan 2015

'With a deep commitment to the exploration of – and innate response to – her materials, Quinlivan composes artworks that exude a meditative and lyrical quality. Abstract in their rendering and varied in their materiality, Quinlivan stitches together deeply personal and intuitive responses to her existence through line and form. This latest body of work continues Quinlivan’s investigation of scale through the experiments in perspective and proximity. Density, weight, texture, and material construction all come together to create layered and sophisticated artworks that invite the viewer to look deep into the detail.’
Excerpt from essay by Owen Craven 2016

Hannah Quinlivan has recently held solo exhibitions at Jan Kossen Gallery, New York (2018), Hong Kong Art Central (2017), Colorado State University (2017) and Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (2017). She was awarded the major public art commission for the new Canberra Light Rail Network (2018) and in 2016 constructed a spatial drawing / performance work Arrhythmia for the National Portrait Gallery, ACT. Also in 2016 she won an ANU Scholarship to attend a conference, Time and Temporality, at Cambridge University, where she concurrently exhibited an ephemeral, site-specific work Spatialisation at Pembroke College.

Quinlivan has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the Queensland College of Art’s Drawn to Experience, a survey of Australian and International contemporary drawing practices (2015), Bega Valley Regional Gallery’s MOTION: The body & movement in Contemporary Art Practice (2015) and at Art Vault Mildura for their Australian Print Triennial (2015). She also participated in Project Field Trip, a touring exhibition travelling through Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia (2016).

She has most recently been a finalist in the 2018 and 2014 Alice Prize, a finalist in the 2017 Churchie Art Prize, and the 2017 Calleen Art Award. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at both the Art at the Heart Residency, Shire of East Pilbara and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik in where she also completed a mentorship under the guidance of artist Chiharu Shiota. She was the winner of the 2016 ANU College of Arts & Social Science and was also awarded the Jump Mentoring Program through the Australia Council for the Arts in 2014, and Arts Funding with ARTS ACT, which allowed her to establish a mentoring program for young Canberra arts graduates.

Quinlivan is represented in number of collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Australian High Commission (Singapore), ACT Legislative Assembly Art Collection (Canberra), Deakin University Art Collection, The Australian National University, KPMG Art Collection, Shire of East Pilbara West Australia, Philip Cox Collection, Ormond College Collection, and various private collections. She graduated from ANU School of Art (Honours) in 2013 with first class honours. She has exhibited in Britain, Berlin, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and the United States.