PROJECT: 80 Ann Street, Brisbane
ARTIST: Hannah Quinlivan
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DIVELOPER: Mirvac
DATE: 2022
Under the direction of public art consultants IAM, Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann Street, features a suspended aluminium and glass sculpture by Hannah Quinlivan references free-flowing water of the Brisbane River in the arrival space.
ARTIST BIO:
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 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 a sandstone engraving and ceramic print on glass at for the Facade and awning of 275 George Street, Sydney (2021) 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).
