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Born in 1973, in Reading UK
Currently resides in Bradford on Avon, UK
Education/Training:
2026/27 Royal College of Art: MA in Painting (Upcoming)
2023/24 Turps Art School: Turps Correspondence Course
1997-2000 University of the West of England: BA hons in Art and Visual Culture
Solo Shows:
2024 Frictional Drag: Radio Hair Salon, Kings Cross & Shoreditch Salons, London
2023 Frictional Drag: Red Eight Gallery, London
2023 Season of the Witch - Artsy/Maggio Art Consultancy
2019 Rebel Visions - Green Rooms Hotel, London
Group Shows:
2026 Loop State - D Contemporary Gallery, London
2026 Dual Natures - Silk Mill Gallery, Frome, Somerset
2025 ’The Body’ - Curated Collection, Hypha Curates Platform
2025 On Gaia’s Skin: Shoreditch Modern gallery, London
2024 Winter Show: Linden Hall Studio gallery, Kent
2023 Through the Looking Glass: Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2023 Summer Salon Exhibition: Candid Arts Trust, London
2022 SFSA: Painting Open Exhibition, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
2022 Ty Pawb Open - Finalists Exhibition, Ty Pawb Museum, Wales
2022 Oxmarket Open Exhibition - Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery, Chichester
2020 ‘Disrupting the Stillness’ - Visionary Projects/Lohme Gallery
Residencies:
2025 Ovada Arts Centre Summer Residency, Oxford, UK
Art Fairs/Art Events/Auctions:
2023 4bySix - Commissioned Bus Panel Auction
2022 The Other Art Fair - Truman Brewery, London October
2022 Art on a Postcard - Winter Auction, Bomb Factory, London
Grants & Awards:
2024 Longlisted - Aesthetica Art Prize
2022 Grand Prize winner - See|Me’s Emerge competition
2021 Longlisted - Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award
2021 New Platform Art: Professional Development Programme
2020 Finalist - London International Creative Competition (LICC)
Media / Publications / Recommendations:
2026 Curatory Magazine #17 - Featured Artist (CLICK HERE)
2026 Portfolio Critique - Kurt Beers (Beers London) (CLICK HERE)
2025 Considering Art Podcast- (CLICK HERE)
2024 Turps Correspondence Course - Letter of Recommendation from Tutor (Tom McGlynn) (CLICK HERE)
2023 Contemporary Art Collector Book: Volume One (CLICK TO VIEW PAGES)
2023 Aucart - In the Studio Interview (CLICK HERE)
2022 See|Me: The Living Artist - Featured Artist (CLICK HERE)
2022 Art Connect ‘Artist to Watch’ (CLICK HERE)
Hannah Thomas (British) is a painter, currently based in Wiltshire, UK. She acquired a BA hons in Art and Visual Culture from UWE in Bristol, studying photography. Living and working for over a decade in London as a professional photographer predominantly in the music industry, she moved over to painting in 2019, desirous of more autonomy and creative freedom in her artistic output. She is now committed to her studio practice full-time.
As well as her first solo show in London in 2023, her work has been included in group shows with Shoreditch Modern Gallery, London (2025) and Linden Hall Studios, Kent (2024). She has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 and completed the Turps Correspondence Course (with Turps Art School, London) in June 2024.
She recently participated in the Ovada Summer Residency 2025 in Oxford. She exhibited in a two-person show, Dual Natures, in Silk Mill Gallery in Frome, Somerset and has had work in a group show, Loop State, at D Contemporary Gallery in London.
She will be taking up her place on the MA in Painting at Royal College of Art in September 2026.
Her work is included in private and corporate collections in the UK and Internationally.
STATEMENT:
My painting is about mystery, mood and the evocation of a metaphorical landscape that speaks of the horror and wonder of nature and human nature.
I use a process of application and removal to create rich background layers, working instinctively with no preparation, the work shifts and morphs in the studio, gradually accumulating a sense of agency. Additional shapes and motifs are added to filter in my own themes of absurdity and anxiety in my own particular language, drawing from the predation and relentless activity found in the natural world and its processes.
The aim is to unsettle and provoke a visceral response in the viewer, whilst for myself it is a cathartic process allowing me to grapple with things I find unpalatable or hard to reconcile about the human condition.