Tod Hanson Explained

Tod Hanson (born 1963) is a London-based artist known for his large-scale graphic installations and public artworks.^[1]

Career

Early graphic work

In the 1990s, Hanson worked on a series of large-scale graphic works for Greenpeace UK protests,^{[2] [3]} including a painting of Earth suspended over the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival. Hanson worked with Greenpeace to target Tesco by painting Fiasco, an exhibition truck highlighting the use of ozone destroying refrigeration systems, and to paint two excavators with Greenpeace graphics.^{[4] [5]}

In 1991, Hanson decorated both LSE bar and The Brain in Soho.

Permanent public artworks

Hanson's 2004 Grainger Town, a bronze and Granite work that is a collaboration with Simon Wakinson, is permanently installed on Neville Street, near the Central Station, in Grainger Town, Newcastle upon Thyne.^{[6] [7]}

In 2009 Hanson's Elliptical Switchback, a tile mural commemorating Edmund Halley, was installed in the Haggerston railway station.^{[8] [9] [10]} The piece was the first public artwork commissioned by London Overground.^[11] In 2015 he installed two public artworks on Balham Road in London, England.^[12]

His 2016 painting Pool of London is permanently installed in the Hackney New School, London.^{[13] [14]}

Hanson's 2020 work Spectra is a public mural installed on the Centre Building of the London School of Economics campus.^[15]

Temporary exhibitions

Hanson has had a number of Solo shows including the Jerwood Artists platform at Cell Project Space in 2006.^{[16] [17]}

In 2010 his temporary work Juggernaut Sunset was installed in the Landguard Fort as part of the festival Fleet: Art in the Haven Ports.^{[18] [19]}

In 2015 his site-specific work floor painting, which covers the entire floor, was installed at the historic Durbar Hall of the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Coastal Currents festival.^[20]

Notes and References

1. News: A Q&A with... Tod Hanson, painter and graphic artist - a-n The Artists Information Company. a-n The Artists Information Company. 2018-05-01. en-US.
2. News: Club Event for Ancient Forests Campaign. 13 September 2002. Yorkshire Evening Post. 27 February 2011.
3. Web site: TOD HANSON . todhanson.com.
4. Book: McQuiston . Liz . Graphic Agitation 2: Social and Political Graphics in the Digital Age . 6 July 2004 . Phaidon Press . 38 . 9780714841779 . en.
5. Book: Graves-Brown . Paul . Harrison . Rodney . Piccini . Angela . The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World . 17 October 2013 . OUP Oxford . 978-0-19-166394-9 . 329 . en.
6. Web site: Sculptural map celebrates city revamp . The Northern Echo . en.
7. Web site: Designers go to town . ChronicleLive . 9 December 2003.
8. Book: Green . Oliver . London's Underground: The Story of the Tube . 24 September 2019 . White Lion Publishing . 978-0-7112-4013-1 . en.
9. Web site: Orange Art Squeezed: The Overground's Stalled Art Programme (London, UK). March 7, 2018.
10. Web site: Kenny . Lucy . The Elliptical Switchback, Tod Hanson . POPSUGAR Smart Living UK . 18 March 2017.
11. Web site: New public art at Hampstead Heath station . Times Series . en.
12. Web site: Artwork on Balham High Road – Tod Hanson . South London Life . en . 20 May 2015.
13. Book: Smith . Stephen . Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets . 2 December 2010 . Little, Brown Book Group . 978-0-7481-2394-0 . en.
14. Web site: TOD HANSON . todhanson.com.
15. Web site: LSE's Centre Building – Tod Hanson Commission . Contemporary Art Society.
16. Web site: Tod Hanson Cell Project Space. cellprojects.org. en. 2018-05-01.
17. Web site: Williams . Gilda . Gilda Williams on Tod Hanson . www.artforum.com.
18. Web site: Emms . Stephen . Fleet: Art on the Essex/Suffolk coast . The Guardian . 9 July 2010.
19. Web site: Clarke . Andrew . A summer of art along the historic coastline of East Anglia . East Anglian Daily Times . en.
20. Web site: A Q&A with... Tod Hanson, painter and graphic artist . The Artists Information Company.