CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

Through various methods of exploring line and form – via traditional drawing techniques, canvas painting, wire and salt installation, as well the use of LED lighting – Hannah challenges the way we expect drawing to operate and be presented. Subsequently her work becomes experiential not only in its physicality but also through a range of conceptual connections. Grappling with contemporary issues such as human migration, emotional cognition, time’s flowing passage and more traditional explorations of landscape and remoteness, Hannah’s work uses processes of repetition, ephemerality and the interplay of light and shadow to open up discussions around some of contemporary society's most pressing topics. The evolving quality of her practice gives Quinlivan’s work an organic, living quality that creates an immersive experience for the viewer.

Developed throughout the tumultuous year of 2020, Quinlivan’s new series of ‘spatial drawings’ brings together wire and LED installations tracing the vicissitudes – personal and shared – of ecological and economic crises. While many of the artist’s earlier pieces were ephemeral – enlisting decomposable materials such as salt and tape, as well as performative elements – the works in ‘Nocturne’ signal a new emphasis on permanence. Crafted from hand-cut acrylic sheets, heated and moulded with aluminium wire, they emblematically fix our fears firmly in place at a time when climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is here and now, vehement and permanent.
Excerpt from essay by Elli Walsh, 2020

Installation view: FLG booth at Sydney Contemporary 2019, Uncertain Terrains (foreground), Tidal (right)

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.
Artist Statement - Hannah Quinlivan

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

Installation view: Delineation, at the Town Hall Gallery in Hawthorn 2019

Hannah Quinlivan graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2013 and is currently a PhD candidate within the ANU School of Art & Design. Her practice has been recognised by curators and collectors alike for her skilful exploration of ideas around human movement, emotional cognition and time’s flowing passage.

She has participated in a number of international group and solo exhibitions including the international survey of contemporary textile art MINIARTEXTIL Como, Italy (2019), her solo exhibition Impulses, Retraints, Tones at New York’s Jan Kossen Contemporary (2018), Hong Kong Art Central (2017), the solo Pellucid at Colorado State University (2017) and a collaborative drawing performance entitled Immobilised at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (2017). She won an ANU Scholarship to attend the conference, Time and Temporality, at Cambridge University (2016), where she concurrently exhibited an ephemeral, site-specific work Spatialisation at Pembroke College in the same year. She also participated in Project Field Trip, a touring exhibition travelling through Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia (2016).

VIRTUAL TOUR of Nocturne solo 2020

*New Update*
Hannah Quinlivan has been announced as the commissioned artist for DESIGN Canberra's new City Walk artwork.

Watch Hannah discuss the commission

Hannah Quinlivan's lyrical installation 'Shroud' was installed at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra as part of Contour556 in 2020.

Within Australia she has held solo exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (Uncertain Terrain, 2019 and Arrhythmia, 2016), the Town Hall Gallery in Melbourne (Delineation, 2019), the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (Anatomy of Drawing, 2017), and at Deakin University, Melbourne (Travelling Light, 2017). Quinlivan has also participated in large group shows such as Contour554, Canberra Public Art Biennal, Canberra (2020), the Queensland College of Art’s Drawn to Experience: 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 as part of their Australian Print Triennial (2015).

Major public art projects she has undertaken include creating a site specific installation for Design Canberra, City Walk (2020) and producing a series of unique site-specific artworks for each of the Canberra Light Rail Network stations (2018)

She has been a finalist in the Alice Prize (2018, 2014), the Churchie Art Prize (2017), and the Calleen Art Award (2017). She was an artist in residence at both the Art at the Heart Residency, Shire of East Pilbara (2017) and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik where she also completed a mentorship under the guidance of artist Chiharu Shiota (2017). She was the winner of the ANU College of Arts & Social Science Scholarship (2016), was also awarded a Jump Mentoring Program through the Australia Council for the Arts (2014), and arts funding with ARTS ACT (2014), 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), the Arthur & Suzie Roe Collection, 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.

HANNAH QUINLIVAN MONOGRAPH
FLG is delighted to have produced this comprehensive monograph covering Hannah Quinlivan’s recent career highlights. 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 purchase at FLG for $50 plus GST

PROJECT ARCHIVE
* Read On gender, pay and public art article from Arts Hub, April 2020
* 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

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

QUINLIVAN'S PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

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Media Highlights

Surge 1 2021
Acrylic and aluminium
127cm x 90cm x 15cm
$5,500 AUD

Deep Water 5 2021
Powdercoated with chrome effect on aluminium
61cm x 58cm x 21cm
$3,500 AUD

Deep Water 4 2021
Powdercoated with chrome effect on aluminium
70cm x 80cm x 20cm
$4,500 AUD

Deep Water 3 2021
Black gloss powdercoated aluminium
72cm x 80cm x 18cm
$4,000 AUD

Deep Water 2 2021
Powdercoated aluminium
66cm x 58cm x 22
$3,000 AUD

Deep Water 1 2021
Black gloss powdercoated aluminium
57cm x 50cm x 21
Sold
Sold

Surge 3 2021
Acrylic and aluminium
75cm x 87cm x 22cm
$4,000 AUD

Surge 2 2021
Acrylic and aluminium
100cm x 150cm x 22cm
$6,000 AUD

Fallow 1 2020
powder coated steel
160cm x 210cm x 50cm
$15,000 AUD

Uncertain Terrains 3 2020
anodised aluminium, opaque gloss & matte white & transparent hard acrylic strips heated and hand woven
125cm x 220cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$10,000 AUD

Fallow 2 2020
powder coated steel
Free standing sculpture
70cm x 110cm x 90cm
$7,500 AUD

Compression 2 2020
acrylic and ink on Belgian linen
150cm x 180cm
$7,500 AUD

Nocturne 4 2020
acrylic, rubber and aluminium
54cm x 350cm x 35cm
$5,500 AUD

Nocturne 6 2020
acrylic, rubber and aluminium
55cm x 330cm x 25cm
$5,500 AUD

Nocturne 7 2020
acrylic, rubber and aluminium
70cm x 300cm x 25cm
$5,500 AUD

Nocturne 8 2020
acrylic, rubber and aluminium
58cm x 360cm x 25cm
$5,500 AUD

Exposure 1, 2 & 3 2020
acrylic and ink on Belgian linen
180cm x 450cm
(triptych)
$20,000 AUD

Shroud i 2020
aluminium, acrylic and shadow
154cm x 247cm x 37cm
$20,000 AUD

Desiderium 2 2020
acrylic, aluminium and LEDs
156cm x 207cm x 30cm,
$14,000 AUD

Continuum II 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
200cm x 490cm x 25cm
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
Sold
Sold

Holding Pattern III 2017
aluminium, wire & LED
110cm x 150cm
$8,000 AUD

Uncertain Terrains 2 2019
anodised aluminium, opaque gloss & matte white & transparent hard acrylic strips heated and hand woven
100cm x 210cm x 35cm In artist's studio
$11,000 AUD