CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

*News Update* Hannah recently installed a sublime new work at the 2019 International Textile exhibition MIniartextil at Lake Como, Italy.

Hannah also exhibited her major installation Uncertain Terrain in a new configuration at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2019.

Installation view: FLG booth at Sydney Contemporary 2019

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

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 and open up discussion through this new examinaton of a provocative topic. Referencing previous gestures and forms while also reaching out to explore new territories, the evolving quality of her practice gives Quinlivan’s work an organic, living quality while creating 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.
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

Quinlivan was invited to exhibit at MINIARTEXTIL, the 29th edition of the annual international survey show of Contemporary Textile Art, Como, Italy in October 2019, and exhibited her installation Uncertain Terrain at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (2019) and at Sydney Contemporary (2019). She held her first New York solo with Jan Kossen Gallery in 2018, was featured at Hong Kong Art Central in 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. She 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 been a finalist in the Alice Prize (2018, 2014), a finalist in the Churchie Art Prize (2017), and the Calleen Art Award (2017). 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 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), 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. 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.

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 or via our Bigcartel store.

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

Holdfast 2017
Steel & PVC
190cm x 470cm x 20cm
Sold
Sold

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 Pattern VII 2017
aluminium wire and LED lights
120cm x 130cm
Currently on display at SJB Offices
$8,000 AUD

Continuum III 2017
anodised aluminium, rubber and adhesive tape
180cm x 350cm x 25cm
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$9,500 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