Hannah Bays (b. 1982)
Interested in human drives and the construction of meaning in our lives, recent work has focused on desire - both as a motivational force and something also open to manipulation.
Notions of the body and its discontents underpin much of the work, with the alienated body often depicted in symbolic shorthand or through the anthropomorphism of inanimate objects.
There is a push and pull between the abstract and figurative, the symbolic and the purely formal, with an insistence on spontaneous painterly gesture, or ‘affirmation’.
Bays has work in the Jerwood, Hiscox and Soho House collections; was a Creekside Open 2019 prize winner; a Jerwood Purchase Prize winner, 2014; and received the Agnes Ethel Mackay travel award, 2015.
Profile
Born: 1982 in London
RA Schools student from 2012 to 2015
Gender: Female
Contact information:
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Gallery of works
![Hannah Bays, Pulpit]()
Hannah Bays, Pulpit, 2017.
![Hannah Bays, Peanut Butter from the Jar]()
Hannah Bays, Peanut Butter from the Jar, 2016.
![Hannah Bays, Shapeshifter]()
Hannah Bays, Shapeshifter, 2016.
![Hannah Bays, Navel Gaze]()
Hannah Bays, Navel Gaze, 2017.
![Hannah Bays, Cauldron]()
Hannah Bays, Cauldron, 2015.
![Hannah Bays, Numen]()
Hannah Bays, Numen, 2015.
![Hannah Bays, Desiring Machine]()
Hannah Bays, Desiring Machine, 2015.
![Hannah Bays, Kink]()
Hannah Bays, Kink, 2015.
![Hannah Bays, Lasso]()
Hannah Bays, Lasso, 2014.
![Hannah Bays, Jiggery Pokery]()
Hannah Bays, Jiggery Pokery, 2014.
![Hannah Bays, The Wrestler]()
Hannah Bays, The Wrestler, 2014.
![Hannah Bays, Paragon Heights]()
Hannah Bays, Paragon Heights, 2018.
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CV
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Solo shows
2016 Desire Peaks, Cob Gallery, Camden, London
2009 A little death, Show of prints at 6 Burlington Arcade, Mayfair, London
2007 Hannah Bays and PPQ fashion collaboration, Conduit St Mayfair, London -
Selected group shows
2017 Yes Please, George and Jørgen, Peckham, London
2016 Gradation, AF Projects, Mayfair, London
Painting Made me do it, Dot project, Fulham, London
Mouldmap - Terraformers, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2015 Integrity Painting Prize, the Glue Factory, Glasgow
Royal Academy Schools Show
2014 The right hand gives, the left takes away, residency and group show at Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Premiums, Royal Academy schools interim show
2013 JM Finn, Royal Academy group exhibition, Culford School, Cambridge
2012 100 Mothers group show curated by Harry Pye, (various locations)
2011 Ghosts of Gone Birds The Rochelle School, Arnold Circus London Close eyes to exit Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street, London -
Residencies, Awards and collections
2017 Kings Mall Residency, Hammersmith
2015 Agnes Ethel Mackay Travel Award
2014 Extrapool, Nijmegen residency
The Jerwood Purchase Prize, Royal Academy Schools
The Soho House collection
Hiscox CollectionPublications
2016 A Tri-city Survey of those fresh off the Art Market Boat, Flaunt Magazine, winter issue
2009 Harry Pye’s Future art stars, Saatchi MagazineEducation
2012–2015 Royal Academy Schools, MA Fine Art, London
2002–2006 London College of Communication BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design: illustration 2:1
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