Hannah Thomas

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Hannah Thomas

Hannah Thomas is an abstract painter, currently based in Wiltshire, UK. She attended the University of the West of England in Bristol graduating with a BA hons in Art and Visual Culture, going on to pursue a career as a photographer based in London, primarily working in the music sector.

 

In 2019 she chose to transition over to painting, in pursuit of a creative medium with far greater autonomy and creative control and one which allowed her to work with greater tactility and immediacy.

Hannah’s work has sold to collectors in the UK and internationally. She recently won the VAA Scholarship & Exhibition Award and she was recently commissioned to contribute a work painted on a reclaimed London bus panel for auction with 4bySix. She was included in the Ty Pawb Open exhibition in Wales and she was shortlisted for this year’s Visual Art Open. She is currently a finalist in the Dubel Prize: Emerging Artist of the Year with a solo exhibition at the Red Eight Gallery at 9 Cornhill, London.

She is currently working out of her studio in Bradford on Avon and is enrolled in the Turps Correspondence Course for 2023/24.

 

About her practice:
'I am a predominantly abstract artist, working mostly with acrylics and mixed media. I paint with bold colours, creating fractured and interlocking landscapes occupied with biomorphic forms with a dash of the absurd and macabre.
The work is driven by an existential ache, ideas of personal freedom and autonomy, concerns about threats to that freedom and the inevitable moral relativism in all life forms that perpetuates a state of constant friction.
My paintings are a celebration of the ‘other’, often populated by motifs that reference the figurative or biological, indicating the presence of a creature or life form that represents the savage, the mischievous, the outsider, the disturber of the status quo and existing outside of the social and political culture. In my fictional landscapes that presence can remain elusive and undefined but universally understood, holding court and highlighting the absurdity and chaos that underpins life and all my work.
My visual language reflects my influences – Francis Bacon, HR Giger, Basquiat, David Lynch and the natural world - but using my suggestive shapes, layers and totemic symbols I want also to conjure an emotional topography that is specifically mine..'
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