About
Hannah Murgatroyd’s drawings and paintings offer permeable slippages of the past, present, future, representing No 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, who take their genesis from diverse historical sources such as Disney animation stills and nineteenth-century landscape painting. Transcribed by an immodest mark and palette, representation in Murgatroyd’s work opens a window onto a version of the world, one eroticized, ambiguous and engaged deeply with surface.
Born in 1976, Hannah Murgatroyd was raised on Dartmoor. She became a painter long after art school, living in Berlin. Her studio is at Spike Island, Bristol and in 2019, she instigated the Painters’ Network South West. She is currently a mentor for Turps.
‘Drawing like a Painter’ essay on Hannah Murgatroyd by Lizzi Lloyd, 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f889ec_744d7a004a9844d788bc212d0d114632.pdf
Interview with Alicia Tsigarides, Peer Forum, Camden Arts Centre, 2018
https://medium.com/@camdenartscentre/peer-forum-hannah-murgatroyd-bd804494ec43
Instagram:
@hannah_murgatroyd
@paintersnetwork_sw
contact: hannah.murgatroyd(a)network.rca.ac.uk
Hannah Murgatroyd’s drawings and paintings offer permeable slippages of the past, present, future, representing No 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, who take their genesis from diverse historical sources such as Disney animation stills and nineteenth-century landscape painting. Transcribed by an immodest mark and palette, representation in Murgatroyd’s work opens a window onto a version of the world, one eroticized, ambiguous and engaged deeply with surface.
Born in 1976, Hannah Murgatroyd was raised on Dartmoor. She became a painter long after art school, living in Berlin. Her studio is at Spike Island, Bristol and in 2019, she instigated the Painters’ Network South West. She is currently a mentor for Turps.
‘Drawing like a Painter’ essay on Hannah Murgatroyd by Lizzi Lloyd, 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f889ec_744d7a004a9844d788bc212d0d114632.pdf
Interview with Alicia Tsigarides, Peer Forum, Camden Arts Centre, 2018
https://medium.com/@camdenartscentre/peer-forum-hannah-murgatroyd-bd804494ec43
Instagram:
@hannah_murgatroyd
@paintersnetwork_sw
contact: hannah.murgatroyd(a)network.rca.ac.uk
