Art2Muse

Upcoming Exhibition at Art2Muse Gallery 22 August – 4 September 2012

Artworks available to view in Sydney

Collectable. Notorious. "Hyperpollock!"

Mark Hanham: a talented, successful young artist, a huge personality: fascinating, attractive and articulate. With a Masters in Fine Art, he has been previously selling through Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Shapiro and other dealers, as well as creating a storm at Art Sydney and Art Melbourne. His auction record for the secondary market is flawless.

Mark’s large scale paintings are represented in international, national and corporate collections and he was a finalist in the 2003 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales and People’s Choice Paddington Art Prize 2004.

Mark’s style - large, brash, pop, beautiful - takes drip painting and sensual curves to a new level.

Come and see what all the fuss is about.

I did not simply choose to be an Artist. It probably started when I was a child, born and bred in Paddington surrounded by galleries and people who are truly passionate about design and the Arts in every form. As far back as I can remember I have been on a journey of visual experiences and my work has been fundamentally, the outward expressions of an inward search.

The function of Art is to me the regeneration of perception – blended with what I have “distilled” from past influences.

The use of abstract line and form brings quite a different range of problems to be solved. However one has to start somewhere if you wish to learn anything and then comes a series of imaginative developments involving color and texture and more lines until I am satisfied that I have captured “a moment in time”.

I have tried to take a more literal approach to abstract expressionism since completing my Masters Degree in 2004. A more figurative way of working so that you can see what the image is, without seeing it all. This allows the viewer to imbue their individual sense into the work. It invites them to get involved.

A lot of my work is about street and cityscapes; it’s about the chaos of a city – the rush, the isolation and the alienation.

- Mark Hanham

View Mark in the studio

Art Fairs

2010 Art Sydney
2010 Melbourne Affordable Art Fair
2009 Art Sydney
2009 Sydney Affordable Art Fair
2008 Sydney Affordable Art Fair

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Shapiro Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
2008 European Selection - Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2008 Studio Den Haag, The Netherlands
2007 First Impressions - Studio Herrljunga, Sweden
2007 Reflections III - Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2006 Reflections II - Mary Place Gallery, Paddington with
Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Paddington, Sydney
2007 Andrew Crawford Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2006 Petit Pois - The Gig Gallery, Glebe, Sydney
2005 Reflections, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2008 Southhead Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
2007 Diverse Places” Mary Place Gallery, Paddington with
Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Sydney
2006 Richard Martin Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
Albury Cellars Gallery, Paddington
Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney
Affordable Art Show, Fox Studios Sydney
Bruyeres Gray, Bowral
Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
People & Panorama, Marlene Antico Fine Arts
2005 Scape, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Under Water - Barry Stern Group Exhibition
Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Sydney
2004 Finalist “Paddington Art prize”, Marlene Antico Fine Arts
Winner – People’s Choice Award 2004
UNICEF Tsunami Exhibition, Shaffer Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Seeing is Believing - Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2003 Finalist Sulman Art Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Kings Cross Art Competition -The Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst.
Winner Peoples Choice Award 2003
2002 Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Award, Lane Cove, Sydney
Kings Cross Art Competition -The Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst
Winner People’s Choice Award 2002
2001 “About Face”, National Art School, Stairwell Gallery
2000 “Bondi Art Prize” The Pavilion Bondi Beach

Education

2004 Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, Paddington
University of New South Wales
Major – Painting / Drawing
Extra Curricular – Life Drawing and Sculpture
2001 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Major in Painting / Drawing
Extra Curricular – Life Drawing and Scultpure

Publications

2010 Deutscher-Menzies Australian & International Art Catalogue
2009 Deutscher-Menzies Australian & International Art Catalogue
2008 Wentworth Courier, 16 April, 2008
2006 Look magazine, NSW Art Gallery publication
2006 Cover Artist and Profile for 2006 Balmain Art & Craft show
2006 Pedestrian DVD-magazine, Artist Profile
2005 Art Almanac, September 2005
Making Mark - Art Documentary by Sascha Ettinger-Epstein
(Prize winning documentary, AFTR School, Sydney.)
2004 Art Almanac, October 2004
Wentworth Courier, 13 October, 2004
NBN Television Channel 9, Port Macquarie News, 1st March
TCN Television Channel 9, A Current Affair, Sydney

Commissions considered

Contact Katrina Hampton +61-424809849 / +61-2-9697 3299