About
My practice centres around concepts of injustice, prejudice and social inequality and through my work I invite and provoke reflection and action.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist. Interaction with materials and processes is an important part of my research and my engaging with the subject matter, and forms an integral part of my visual language. I see for example deep etching in metal as analogous to the deeply embedded structural violence resulting from bureaucracy and faceless decision-making processes, whilst stamps and branding tools might stand for a metaphor for actions and decisions which scar the body, the psyche, and for the collective trauma which becomes imprinted in collective memory.
Currently, I am exploring the ways in which status quo is guarded through visible symbols of bureaucracy and through dehumanised decision-making procedures.
ARTIST CV
Born in Poland, February 1969, currently lives and works in Paisley, Scotland
www.julitahanlonart.com, contact@julitahanlonart.com, Instagram: www.instagram.com/j.hanlon1
EDUCATION
Glasgow School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking
GSA Continued Education: Experimenting with Colour (studied under Rosemary Beaton), 2010
GSA Continued Education: Portrait Painting (studied under Jim Ramsey), 2010
University of Paisley (now University of West of Scotland): Digital Photography Level 1 and 2, 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
April/May Unfinished Movement (with Graham Lister, Jek McAllister and McLaughlin + Williamson), Generator Projects, Dundee
2021
July The Alternative Degree Show Festival, The Briggait, Glasgow
May/June: ‘Balancing Art’ SaltSpace collaborative residency with Chonghe Fan and Adriana Minu
2020
August ‘Fragments’, Rogart Street Campus, Glasgow, UK (with Susan Torrance and Anuschka Barlas
March Control Alter Delete (with Clet Abraham, K. Healy, Darren Cullen, and Dr. D, curated by Marianne Vosloo)
‘Rabbit Skin’, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK (group exhibition)
2019
May ‘TrêsTrzy3’ (with Susan Torrance and Ema Ferreira):
WASPS Creative Academy, Inverness, UK (aslo showing Sharon Scoobie and Ian Whyte)
Rogart Street, Glasgow, UK
Generator Project, Dundee, UK
March ‘TrêsTrzy3’, Art School, Glasgow, UK (with Susan Torrance and Ema Ferreira)
2010
April ‘The invasion of time’, solo photographic exhibition, Magpie Eye Gallery, Glasgow, UK
COMMISSIONS
2019 ‘Harper’ portrait, private commission, 2018
COLLECTIONS
‘Let’s burn the books’, photograph, private collection, Glasgow, UK
‘Tenderness’, oil painting, private collection, Warsaw, Poland
‘Harper’, oil painting, private collection, Sydney, Australia
MEMBERSHIP
The Generator Project, Dundee, UK
SaltSpace Co-operative, Glasgow, UK
Scottish Artists Union
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts