Hannah Benassi

Artist Biography

My work is informed by the process of combining edited and organised research with the fluidity of intuitive mark-making. Using imagery that has been taken throughout my travels, my work primarily explores the relationship between organic and human-made qualities captured within the rustic towns of Italy.

The repetitive process ofdeconstructing and reconstructing my artistic content is significant to mypractice as a whole, where I create simplified forms that are used as tools forcomposing new abstracted compositions. Working primarily with paint, my workexplores the use of clay, oil bar, cloth, and pasted papers. This multi-mediaapproach is influenced by my collated use of abstracted information, where I aminterested in creating layers of soft and raw textures to form a balancebetween lightness and structure.

My work is informed by the process of combining edited andorganised research with the fluidity of intuitive mark-making, to presenttraditional qualities within contemporary art.

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Selected Exhibitions

Awards:

2019 | The Farquhar Reid trust prize

2019 | Saatchi Art Rising Star

Exhibitions:

2019 | History in the making: Reflection on 2019, Menier Gallery, London.

2019 | Postcard Project, Kim Canale,Montrose, Angus.

2019 | Degree Show, Duncan ofJordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.

2019 | Generators Member Show, GeneratorGallery Space, Dundee.

2018 | Structures / Attitudes, DocStreet Studio, Dundee.

2016 | Generators Member Show, GeneratorGallery Space, Dundee.

2016 | Spoons, The Biscuit Factory,Edinburgh.

Education:

19/2020 | MLitt Curatorial Practice, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

16/2019 | 1stClass BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,

15/2019 | Distinction - BTEC, Foundation Course, EdinburghCollege, Granton.

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