CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

Hannah Quinlivan will be exhibiting as part of our POP-UP group exhibition Subterrain, on exhibition at Collins Place Gallery from 24 July – 5 August, as part of Melbourne Art Week. Please contact the gallery if you would like to be placed on the preview list for this exhibition.

* 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), Colorada State University (2017) and Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (2017). In 2016 Quinlivan constructed a spatial drawing / performance work Arrhythmia for the National Portrait Gallery. Also in 2016 she won an ANU Scholarship to attend a conference, Time and Temporality, at Cambridge University in 2016 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, surveying Australian and International contemporary drawing, Bega Valley Regional Gallery’s MOTION: The body & movement in Contemporary Art Practice and at Art Vault Mildura for their Australian Print Triennial. 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), 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 Dux, with first class honours. She has exhibited in Britain, Berlin, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and the United States.

Quinlivan's LED & wire sculptures Holding Pattern series in foyer of FLG

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

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Let It Go 2016
Acrylic on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm ACQUIRED FOR THE ACT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ART COLLECTION, CANBERRA
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Continuum II 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
200cm x 490cm x 25cm (in Artist's studio)
$13,500 AUD

Continuum I 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
280cm x 180cm x 25cm
$8,500 AUD

Continuum III 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
180cm x 350cm x 25cm (in Artist's studio)
$9,500 AUD

Holding Pattern III 2017
aluminium wire and LED
150cm x 110cm Finalist Alice Prize 2018
$8,000 AUD

Holding Pattern VI 2017
aluminium wire and LED
120cm x 140cm
$8,000 AUD

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

$Refraction$

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

Synecdoche 2016
White powdercoated steel
170cm x 125cm x 16cm
$6,000 AUD

Segregation 2016
acrylic & ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm
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Adrift 2016
anodised aluminium, Indian ink & acrylic on Belgian linen
90cm x 120cm x 10cm
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Diaspora 2016
acrylic & ink on Belgian linen
150cm x 92cm
$4,900 AUD

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

Inflected Memory 1 2011
relief print on BRK Rives
40cm x 30cm
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Counter Weight V 2017
acrylic on linen
186cm x 220cm in artist's studio
$8,500 AUD

Counter Weight VI 2016
acrylic on linen
186cm x 220cm in artist's studio
$8,500 AUD

Impressed Memory 1 2012
Intalgio on Hahnemuhle ed 1/2 (unframed)
89cm x 146cm
$3,300 AUD