CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hannah Quinlivan

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.