CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

Upcoming Exhibitions

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*New Update*
Hannah Quinlivan is currently exhibiting at Mosman Art Gallery's The Cube Space. Her installation work titled ‘Compression’ responds to the crises which have unfolded in 2020. The exhibition is on until 31 Jan 2021.

Hannah Quinlivan's lyrical installation 'Shroud' is now installed at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra as part of Contour556. The installation is on view until 31 October 2020. Read more about Contour556 and Hannah's piece here.

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

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.

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).

Within Australia she has been invited to exhibit her installations at Contour554, Canberra Public Art Biennal, Canberra (2020), the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (Uncertain Terrain, 2019 and Arrhythmia, 2016), Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (Anatomy of Drawing 2017), 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 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.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Turbulence, by Sasha Grishin 2018
Synecdoche, by Owen Craven 2016
Still Motion, by Marguerite Brown 2015
Resurfacing, by Phe Luxford 2014

QUINLIVAN'S PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

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Media Highlights

Uncertain Terrains 1 2019
anodised aluminium, opaque gloss & matte white & transparent hard acrylic strips heated and hand woven
170cm x 250cm x 35cm In artist's studio
$20,000 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

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

Tidal 2019
Anodised aluminium and rubber
150cm x 240cm x 12cm
$14,000 AUD

Paper Foundations 2018
anodised aluminium and intaglio prints on Hahnemühle
124cm x 124cm x 10 cm
$8,000 AUD

Turbulence 2017
aluminum
136cm x 136cm x 12 cm
$6,500 AUD

Diaspora 2016
acrylic & ink on Belgian linen
150cm x 92cm
$4,900 AUD

Countercurrents 2017
anodised aluminium
166cm x 96cm x 10 cm
$7,000 AUD

Continuum I 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
280cm x 180cm x 25cm
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$8,500 AUD

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

Holding Pattern IV 2017
aluminium wire and LED
120cm x 110cm
$8,000 AUD

Holding Back the Glacier 2017
acrylic and ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 91cm
$3,800 AUD

$Refraction$

Refraction 2013
Steel wire, Tesa tape, PVA
232cm x 148cm x 24cm
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$6,500 AUD

Digest 2016
Acrylic & Indian ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 180cm in artist's studio
$6,650 AUD

Interchange 2016
Acrylic & Japanese ink on Belgian linen
120cm x 90cm (IN ARTIST STUDIO)
$3,800 AUD

Progression 2015
acrylic and ink on linen, diptych
120cm x 90cm (x 2) in Artist's studio
$6,600 AUD

Counterweight V 2015
acrylic on linen
91cm x 150cm in artist's studio
$4,900 AUD

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

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