CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

Hannah Quinlivan standing next to her LED sculptures 'Holding Pattern' installed at FLG. Image right: Louise Keast performing for Niteart 2017.

Hannah Quinlivan has been interviewed by ABC local radio's Louise Maher. Click the image above to hear Quinlivan discussing her current exhibition Anatomy of a Drawing at Canberra Museum and Gallery.

We are excited to announce that internationally recognised FLG artist Hannah Quinlivan has been selected by Urban Art Project curators as the sole artist whose artworks will be featured on the recently announced new Canberra Light Rail Network! This major public art commission will see Quinlivan’s artwork featured on all 13 stops of the light rail link, which will become iconic to our country’s capital. Congratulations Hannah!

Arrhythmia || Interview from Hannah Quinlivan on Vimeo.

Hannah Quinlivan’s various print techniques, drawings, paintings and sculptures are intrinsically linked, each new piece referencing the last while also reaching out to explore new territories. This gives them a living organic feeling and creates an immersive experience for the viewer.

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. Synecdoche is imbued with a sensibility of feeling and emotion, educed through her expert command and use of line. 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 while simultaneously guiding them to step back and immerse themselves in the affective environment Quinlivan has created.'
Excerpt from essay by Owen Craven 2016

In 2017 Hannah Quinlivan successfully exhibited at HONG KONG ART CENTRAL, created a major installation at Colorada State University and another major work at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. In 2016 Quinlivan constructed a spatial drawing Arrhythmia for the National Portrait Gallery, integrating dancers and opera singers into her performance piece. She won an ANU scholarship to attend a conference, Time and Temporality, at Cambridge University in September 2016 where she also exhibited an ephemeral, site-specifc artwork titled Spatialisation in the Old Court at Pembroke College, and is currently exhibiting Anatomy of a Drawing at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery until August 2017.

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

She was a Finalist in the 2014 Alice Prize and Winner of the Shire of East Pilbara Residency Award, 2014. She 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), 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 Dux, with first class honours. She has exhibited in Britain, Berlin, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Synecdoche, by Owen Craven 2016
Still Motion, by Marguerite Brown 2015
Resurfacing, by Phe Luxford 2014

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Holding Pattern 1 2017
LED lights and aluminium wire
110cm x 150cm x 40cm
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Holding Pattern 2 2017
LED lights and aluminium wire
150cm x 135cm x 40cm
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Holding Pattern 3 2017
LED lights and aluminium wire
120cm x 160cm x 40cm
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Enwrap I 2016
powdercoated steel
132cm x 88cm x 88cm
$7,000 AUD

Enwrap IV 2016
powdercoated steel
170cm x 80cm x 80cm
$7,000 AUD

The Aftermath 2017
steel wire & copper plate etching, PVA and shadow
160cm x 250cm x 30cm
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$Refraction$

Refraction 2013
Steel wire, Tesa tape, PVA
232cm x 148cm x 24cm In artist's studio
$6,500 AUD

Geologic Time 2014
steel, aluminium and shadow
150cm x 155cm x 35cm
$6,000 AUD

Synecdoche 2016
White powdercoated steel
170cm x 125cm x 16cm
$5,500 AUD

Driftwood 2015
Lithographs on Hahnemuhle steel wire and PVA
190cm x 140cm x 30cm
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Segregation 2016
acrylic & ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm
$6,650 AUD

Adrift 2016
anodised aluminium, Indian ink & acrylic on Belgian linen
90cm x 120cm x 10cm
$5,500 AUD

Token 2016
Anodised aluminium, Indian ink & acrylic on Belgian linen
80cm x 100cm x 10cm
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Diaspora 2016
acrylic & ink on Belgian linen
150cm x 92cm
$4,500 AUD

Rive 2016
Powdercoated steel
180cm x 250cm x 27cm
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Enwrap II 2016
6mml round hammered and powdercoated steel, matte black
180cm x 100cm x 80 cm
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Lot of Life in You 2016
LED lights & anodised aluminium
135cm x 110cm x 18cm
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Digest 2016
Acrylic & Indian ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm
$6,650 AUD

Interchange 2016
Acrylic & Japanese ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 90cm
$3,800 AUD

Let It Go 2016
Acrylic on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm
$6,650 AUD

Osciliation 1 2011
lithograph on Hahnemuhle paper
79cm x 29cm
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Inflected Memory 1 2011
relief print on BRK Rives
40cm x 30cm
$600 AUD

Strata 1 2011
Linocut 1/6
60cm x 40cm
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Impressed Memory 1 2012
Intalgio on Hahnemuhle ed 1/2 (unframed)
89cm x 146cm
$3,300 AUD