About
Hannah Murgatroyd’s works are island spaces of the imagination, painted and drawn worlds inhabited by protagonists forming an idiosyncratic canon of desire, whose genesis springs from a history of the body told through high and low art, popular culture and a life lived. Stood outside of time, her work is circular, forming an open narrative by association, where protagonists dip in and out over the years. As such, there are many different tempos to the materiality of the paintings, and the depiction of the subjects and spaces within them. Some are heavily painted, some light, almost instantaneous. This liberty of changing gesture is essential to the freedom of the work, and the bodies depicted. Transcribed by an immodest mark and palette, representation here opens a window onto a version of the world, one eroticized, ambiguous and engaged deeply with surface.
Instagram: @hannah_murgatroyd
Contact: hannah.murgatroyd[a]network.rca.ac.uk
Shows
2018
‘Residency Showcase’ as part of Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, London, UK
‘Clay Rendering’, Century Club, London, UK
‘The Story of Zebedee’, Post Institute / Von Goetz, Brixton, UK
‘Our Souls to Keep’, Field Projects, NY, USA
‘Spike Island Open 2018’, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
'Women Can't Paint', Turps Gallery, London, UK
'Night Follows Night', Gallery 98, Ramsgate, UK
'Turps Cloud', Turps Gallery, London, UK
2017
'Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Tripp Gallery, London, UK
'Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK
'Landscape Is A Peopled World', (solo), Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
'Spike Island Open', Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2016
'Leisured Bodies', (solo), Roper Gallery, Bath, UK
2015
'Signal:Failure', Safe House Peckham, London, UK
'Drawn 2015', RWA, Bristol, UK
2014
'Exeter Contemporary Open 2014', Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
2013
'Co-Work', Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012
'The British Muesum', The Muesum, Berlin, DE
2010
'Show I', MMX, Berlin, DE
2009
'Kunskog', Five Hundred Dollars, London, UK
'Lumpenstadt' (solo), Appartement, Berlin, DE
'LIA Offene Ateliers', Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
'Spring Rundgang', LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2008
'Jerwood Drawing Prize' Exhibition, London (and touring nationally), UK
'Group Drawing Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
2007
'Hidden', Royal College of Art, London, UK
'Appetite for Decoration', Group Show, Terrace, London, UK
'Drawing Show', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2006
'Graduate Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
'Small Monuments' (solo), Mount House Gallery, Marlborough, UK
2005
'Like Nowhere Else', Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004
'Welcome To Parallelville', Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
2003
'Watching the World with the Sound Turned Down', Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
Education
Postgraduate Drawing Year, Prince’s Drawing School, London 2005-2006
MA Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art, London, 2003-2005
BA Illustration, (1st ), University of Brighton, Brighton, 1996-1999
Awards
Overall Award Winner, Exeter Contemporary Open, UK, 2014
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibitor, London (and touring), UK, 2008
Drawing Prize, Graduate Show, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
Prize for Drawing Excellence, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
1st, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2005
3rd, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2004
Residencies
Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, Brixton, UK, 2018
Moritz-Heyman Residency, Pignano, Italy, 2016
Bath Artists' Studios, Bath, UK, 2016
Dumfries House Residency, Scotland, 2014
LIA (Leipzig International Artist Residency Programme), Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE, 2009
Writer in Residence, Permanent Gallery, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK, 2007
Hannah Murgatroyd’s works are island spaces of the imagination, painted and drawn worlds inhabited by protagonists forming an idiosyncratic canon of desire, whose genesis springs from a history of the body told through high and low art, popular culture and a life lived. Stood outside of time, her work is circular, forming an open narrative by association, where protagonists dip in and out over the years. As such, there are many different tempos to the materiality of the paintings, and the depiction of the subjects and spaces within them. Some are heavily painted, some light, almost instantaneous. This liberty of changing gesture is essential to the freedom of the work, and the bodies depicted. Transcribed by an immodest mark and palette, representation here opens a window onto a version of the world, one eroticized, ambiguous and engaged deeply with surface.
Instagram: @hannah_murgatroyd
Contact: hannah.murgatroyd[a]network.rca.ac.uk
Shows
2018
‘Residency Showcase’ as part of Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, London, UK
‘Clay Rendering’, Century Club, London, UK
‘The Story of Zebedee’, Post Institute / Von Goetz, Brixton, UK
‘Our Souls to Keep’, Field Projects, NY, USA
‘Spike Island Open 2018’, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
'Women Can't Paint', Turps Gallery, London, UK
'Night Follows Night', Gallery 98, Ramsgate, UK
'Turps Cloud', Turps Gallery, London, UK
2017
'Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Tripp Gallery, London, UK
'Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK
'Landscape Is A Peopled World', (solo), Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
'Spike Island Open', Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2016
'Leisured Bodies', (solo), Roper Gallery, Bath, UK
2015
'Signal:Failure', Safe House Peckham, London, UK
'Drawn 2015', RWA, Bristol, UK
2014
'Exeter Contemporary Open 2014', Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
2013
'Co-Work', Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012
'The British Muesum', The Muesum, Berlin, DE
2010
'Show I', MMX, Berlin, DE
2009
'Kunskog', Five Hundred Dollars, London, UK
'Lumpenstadt' (solo), Appartement, Berlin, DE
'LIA Offene Ateliers', Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
'Spring Rundgang', LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2008
'Jerwood Drawing Prize' Exhibition, London (and touring nationally), UK
'Group Drawing Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
2007
'Hidden', Royal College of Art, London, UK
'Appetite for Decoration', Group Show, Terrace, London, UK
'Drawing Show', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2006
'Graduate Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
'Small Monuments' (solo), Mount House Gallery, Marlborough, UK
2005
'Like Nowhere Else', Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004
'Welcome To Parallelville', Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
2003
'Watching the World with the Sound Turned Down', Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
Education
Postgraduate Drawing Year, Prince’s Drawing School, London 2005-2006
MA Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art, London, 2003-2005
BA Illustration, (1st ), University of Brighton, Brighton, 1996-1999
Awards
Overall Award Winner, Exeter Contemporary Open, UK, 2014
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibitor, London (and touring), UK, 2008
Drawing Prize, Graduate Show, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
Prize for Drawing Excellence, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
1st, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2005
3rd, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2004
Residencies
Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, Brixton, UK, 2018
Moritz-Heyman Residency, Pignano, Italy, 2016
Bath Artists' Studios, Bath, UK, 2016
Dumfries House Residency, Scotland, 2014
LIA (Leipzig International Artist Residency Programme), Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE, 2009
Writer in Residence, Permanent Gallery, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK, 2007
