Hannah Murgatroyd is a painter whose work is underpinned by drawing and writing, shaping an open narrative of association. Painting within a version of the world, her images move through seasons, mise-en-scène and emotions, led by a cast of male and female protagonists who spring from a personal vision of the figure as told through the history of art, popular culture and a life lived. Representation here opens a window on to a version of the world, one bodily charged, eroticised and engaged deeply with surface.
Selected exhibitions include Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female / Femme Gaze curated by Marcelle Joseph, Lychee One, London, UK (2020); Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, Bucolica solo presentation with Von Goetz, London, UK (2019); the group survey exhibition Women Can’t Paint at Turps & ASC Galleries, curated by Marcus Harvey (2018). Group exhibitions include: Our Souls to Keep at Field Projects, NYC, curated by Lissa Rivera from the Museum of Sex and The Story of Zebedee at Von Goetz Art, London.
She is featured in the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting (Casemate Publishing, 2018) for her solo show, Landscape As A Peopled World, at Exeter Phoenix (2017). She won the Exeter Contemporary Open in 2014 and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. She is a Mentor with the Turps painting school Correspondence Course.
This in-depth interview by Garageland Magazine explores her process, thinking & work following her show with von Goetz gallery at the inaugural Draw Art Fair London.