Camilla Hanney, Sweet Temptations (2021), sifted sugar, ephemeral installation [Detail]
Camilla Hanney (b. 1992) is an Irish artist living and working in London. She is a Graduate of Goldsmiths University Masters of Fine Art programme (2017-2019) and also Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Visual Arts Practice 2010-2015). Since moving to London, her work has been exhibited by a diverse range of galleries including the South London Gallery in conjunction with Bloomberg New Contemporaries and The Rosenfeld Gallery. Camilla was the 2019/20 recipient of the Sarabande foundation studio bursary. She was granted the UK Young artist of the year runner up award at its inaugural award ceremony which was held at the Saatchi . She received the ‘Committee's Choice’ prize at ‘Exceptional’ an exhibition of recent graduate work at Collyer Bristow Gallery and was recipient of the zealous: Sculpture stories prize. She was recently selected as one of the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award winners and was granted the 2020 Irish Visual Arts Bursary Award. Her work has been featured in articles by Crafts Magazine, Elephant Magazine, wallpapermag, Showstudio, Mission Mag and Harpers Bazaar.
Working through ceramics, sculpture and installation Camilla’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways. By subverting traditional, genteel crafts she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from detritus of the past. By materialising the familiar in an unfamiliar context her work stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.
Selected Works
Camilla Hanney
Pillow Talk I, 2020
Cast plaster and white flock, pillow
64 x 43 cm
Camilla Hanney
Pillow Talk II, 2020
Cast plaster and white flock, pillow
64 x 43 cm
Camilla Hanney
Sweet Temptations, 2021
Sifted sugar, ephemeral installation
390h x 215w cm
Camilla Hanney
Burning Desire, 2021
Hand-burned chiffon
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Wedding Cake (Bones), 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Chocolate Ant Cake, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Wedding Cake (Face), 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Flesh Pie, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Ice Cream, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Lady Finger Cake, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Eggs in Tray, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Bone Pie, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Hand, 2021
Camilla Hanney
Indelicate Delights: Candle, 2021
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Exhibition History Highlights
2023 - ‘A Common Thread’, Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo, Ireland
2022 - ‘Practical Magic’, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
- ‘Body Language’, Messums Wiltshire London, London, UK
- The International Glass Biennale 2022, Stourbridge, England
- ‘Lament.’ Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
- Bad Art Presents ‘Let Them Eat Fake’, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2021 - ‘AROUND THE TABLE’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
- ‘'Revive The Archive', Virtual Exhibition
- ‘Muse Residency Competition Exhibition’, Muse Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award Exhibition’, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK
- ‘Unbridled Desires’, Boomer Gallery, London, UK
2020 - 'House of Bandits’, Burberry, Mayfair, London, UK
- 'The Space Between’, Galway, Ireland
- ‘From the Forceps to the Stone’, Rosenfeld Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, UK
- 'The Space Between’, Galway, Ireland
- ‘From the Forceps to the Stone’, Rosenfeld Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, UK
- 'In the Flesh -Sarabande’ The Alexander Mcqueen Foundation
2019 - 'House of Bandits’, Burberry, Mayfair, London, UK
- 'BODIES, SELF AND SEX’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
- 'Exceptional’, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
Awards and Residencies
2022 - RDS Branchardière Lace Bursary Award
- Pallas Projects - Artist initiated projects
2021 - Agility Award 2021 - Arts Council Ireland
- Newby Trust Craft Excellence Award 2021/22
- Glass Lab Residency Award 2021 - The Glass Foundry, Stroud, UK
2020 - Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award
- Irish Visual Arts Bursary Award
- Zealous: Sculpture Stories Prize
Press Releases
AROUND THE TABLE - Camilla Hanney, Lauren-Marie Haywood, Januario Jano, Jocelyn McGregor, Anna Perach, Loreal Prystaj
7 May - 26 June 2021
BODIES: SELF & SEX - Steve Caplin, Eric Ceccarini, Karim Hamid, Ellie Howitt, Camilla Hanney, Anish Kapoor, Lucy Neish, Lydia Pettit, Keith Roberts, James Tailor, Alison Watt, Traditional African Art
22 November 2019 - 05 January 2020
Publications
AROUND THE TABLE
Exhibition catalogue
26 pages - Fully illustrated in colour,
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
BODIES: SELF & SEX
Exhibition catalogue
32 pages - Fully illustrated in colour
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.Click here
Camilla Hanney, Indelicate Delights: Eggs in Tray (2021) [Detail]