Alex Hanna Explained

Alex Hanna
Birth Date:	1964
Birth Place:	Birkenhead, England
Occupation:	Artist

Alex Hanna (born 1964) is an English artist. He studied Fine Art at Sunderland Polytechnic from 1983 to 1986. His paintings display arrangements of disposable packaging and objects which have little or no material value. These objects are arranged in a traditional still life format and painted using process based and traditional painting techniques.^[1]

Hanna has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London,^[2] Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Arts.^[3] His paintings have been acquired by Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Falmouth Art Gallery, Swindon Art Gallery, The Priseman Seabrook Collection, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, and the University of Arizona Museum of Art.^[4]

Selected exhibitions

• “Perceptions of the Mundane” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London (2015)
• “Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London (2015)
• “Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize” The Mall Galleries, London (2015)^[5]
• “Ambiguous Practices” Aberystwyth University (2015) ^{[6] [7]}
• “The Brentwood Stations of the Cross” Brentwood Cathedral (2014)^{[8] [9] [10]}
• “@Paintbritain” Ipswich Museum (2014)
• “Contemporary British Painting” Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014)
• “Contemporary British Painting” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London (2013)
• “Threadneedle Prize” Mall Galleries, London (2013)
• “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition” Royal Academy of Arts, London (2013)
• “Artist in Action for Education” Mok Space Gallery, London (2013)^[11]
• “Marmite Painting Prize for Painting” Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art (2013)^[12]
• “Salon Art Prize”, John Jones, London (2012)^[13]
• “ BP Portrait Award” National Portrait Gallery, London (2012)^[14]

Selected collections

• Abbot Hall Art Gallery
• Falmouth Art Gallery^[15]
• Swindon Art Gallery
• The Priseman Seabrook Collection^[16]
• Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
• University of Arizona Museum of Art

External links

• Alex Hanna website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alex Hanna . www.contemporarybritishpainting.com . 2016-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191022064734/http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=3588 . 2019-10-22 . dead .
2. Web site: Exhibitor Alex Hanna . NPG . 2016-06-03.
3. Web site: Alex Hanna . Art Business . 2016-06-03.
4. Web site: Alex Hanna . 2016-06-03.
5. Web site: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015. Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. 2015 . 2016-06-03.
6. Web site: Ambiguous Practices . University of Aberystwyth . 2016-06-03.
7. Web site: Ambiguous Practices . 2016-06-03.
8. Web site: Brentwood Stations of the Cross . The Tablet . 2014 . 2016-06-03.
9. Web site: Brentwood Stations of the Cross . Brentwood Cathedral . 2014 . 2016-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160527012402/http://www.cathedral-brentwood.org/blog-2/brentwood-stations-00/ . 2016-05-27 . dead .
10. Web site: Brentwood Stations of the Cross . BBC . 2014 . 2016-06-03.
11. Web site: Artists in Action for Education 2013 . Marmite Prize . 2013 . 2016-06-03.
12. Web site: Marmite Prize For Painting 2012 . Marmite Prize . 2016-06-03.
13. Web site: Salon Art Prize 2012 . John Jones . 2016-06-03.
14. Web site: Exhibitor Alex Hanna . NPG . 2016-06-03.
15. Web site: Alex Hanna, Pill Packaging. 2016-05-29.
16. Web site: Priseman Seabrook Collection . https://web.archive.org/web/20160424035947/http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=2388 . dead . 2016-04-24 . www.contemporarybritishpainting . 2016-05-29 .