Camille Hannah

Camille Hannah was born in 1977 in Melbourne, Australia.
She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Using oil and polymer paints on acrylic glass, Hannah creates works that can be assigned to the art-historically rich technique of reverse glass painting. In the classical process of reverse glass painting, the outlines of figurative pictorial elements are defined before the opaque and multi-layered application of paint. Camille Hannah, on the other hand, applies the paint in a completely abstract form. Her color palette in soft earth tones, powdery rose tones and the use of gold stands out from tradition. The treatment and texture of the surface result in a mixture of sheen, refraction and reflection of the color pigments and the transparency of the medium, which lend a transcendent radiance and tactile appeal to her artworks.

In contrast to earlier reverse glass paintings, Hannah’s works are characterized by an expressive brushstroke – including visible fibre structures. The opacity of the paint application is iridescent and thus promotes the interplay between the transparent medium and the layers of paint. The result is an aesthetic of the sensory, a threshold between viewer and object/surface that fluctuates between seeing and the desire of touch. Based on her gestures, the movement of her brushstrokes, the artist critically examines her own position and place within art history and pleads for a perception of her art without objectification, subordination and essentialization.

Education

2005 – 2009

Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2010

Bachelor Fine Art (Painting) Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2011 – 2012

Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2024

Whoremoan, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2022

Incendies…, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

…touchsensitive, HOFA Gallery, London, UK

2019

The Sixteen Pleasures, Olsen Grein Gallery, New York, USA

AVA, HOFA Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA

X, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2018

Barbarians, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Carpe Diem, Barangaroo Towers, Sydney, Australia

Lustris @Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

2016

Pittura Immedia, Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Art 16 Art Fair, London, United Kingdom

2015

Skin Flick, Fehily Contemporary Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2014

Peep Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Heroine, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2013

Fleshold, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2012

Stutter Speed, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2011

Excesses, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Transperence, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2010

Desiraux, Mailbox141, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia

Ergo, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2024

IN MOTION, with Silvia Inselvini, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

Personal Structures, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

2021

Awakening, HOFA, London, UK

2020

Alles Anderes, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

2019

Art Bodensee with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Dornbirn, Austria

Texas Contemporary Art Fairs, Texas, USA

Women in Art, HOFA Contemporary, Paris, France

2018

Art Toronto with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada

QVANTUM, HOFA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA / London, UK

M.A.R.C.O. Association, Royal Villa, Monza, Italy

2017

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Olsen Gallery, Carraigeworks, Sydney, Australia

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Carraigeworks, Melbourne, Australia

Surface, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2016

Now 16, Fehily Contemporary Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

10th Anniversary, Arterial Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2015

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sidney, Australia

Signal 8, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Art 15, Art Fair, London, United Kingdom

Now, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

2014

Abstract, Benalla Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia

Start, Saatchi Gallery, London, UKnited Kingdom

Ochre, Bones and Urine: A Painting Show, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

2013

Paint’ 13, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Everything at once, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Summer’ 13, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2011

Now : 2011, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

High Definition –The State of Australian Painting in a Post-Digital Age, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Future Now, Substation, Melbourne, Australia

Exploration 11, Pleysier Perkins Contemporary Art Award, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2010

Postcard, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2009

Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008

Postcard, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2007

Proud, Exhibition, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006

Tangential Practice, Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Prizes and Awards

2021

Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

2018

Winner Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

2017

Special Exhibition Prize, Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2015

T.I.N.A Art Prize, Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2013

Premio-Ora Art Prize, International Catalogue Award, Italy

Artist Residencies

2022

Villa-R Residency, Sicily, Italy

2019

Bundanon Trust Residency, Bundanon, New South Wales, Australia

Public Collections

Artbank, Sydney, Australia

Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia

Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2024

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