'Lac no.2' by Hana Abri Smith
'Lac no.2'
50 x 50 cm
Acrylic and Oil on Paper
2024
£650
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Hana Abri Smith is a visual artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Last year, she exhibited work at The Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of a group show ‘The Way of All Flesh’, curated by The Delphian Gallery. She has been funded by the Arts Council Northern Ireland, Jerwood Arts, and A-N artists. In 2020, Hana won the ‘John Richardson Award’ at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 139th annual exhibition, Ulster Museum. In 2017, Hana graduated with a BA Theatre and Film: Technical Arts and Special Effects at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London)
I explore the intersection of memory, performance, and constructed realities through staged figurative paintings. I work predominantly in oil paint, and my mediums include paper, card, canvas, and wood. I am obsessive about organising and rearranging. As part of my practice, I use collage to construct compositions that blend remembered experiences with imagined narratives. Painting allows me to offload thoughts into physical space and make sense of unresolved emotions. The work explores the tension between real and fake, public and private, and the ways in which we perform within different contexts. I am drawn to the behind-the-scenes aspects of human behaviour, what is hidden and what is revealed. I want the audience to feel a false sense of security when they look at my work, drawn in by structure and familiarity, only to sense the instability beneath. My paintings are rooted in the real, but skews toward the surreal and dystopian, reflecting the inconsistencies of memory, and how information becomes distorted as it is passed between people. The paintings often depict groups of figures that merge into a singular entity, unified by colour and gesture, blurring the line between the individual and the collective.
'Lac no.2'
50 x 50 cm
Acrylic and Oil on Paper
2024
£650
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Hana Abri Smith is a visual artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Last year, she exhibited work at The Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of a group show ‘The Way of All Flesh’, curated by The Delphian Gallery. She has been funded by the Arts Council Northern Ireland, Jerwood Arts, and A-N artists. In 2020, Hana won the ‘John Richardson Award’ at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 139th annual exhibition, Ulster Museum. In 2017, Hana graduated with a BA Theatre and Film: Technical Arts and Special Effects at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London)
I explore the intersection of memory, performance, and constructed realities through staged figurative paintings. I work predominantly in oil paint, and my mediums include paper, card, canvas, and wood. I am obsessive about organising and rearranging. As part of my practice, I use collage to construct compositions that blend remembered experiences with imagined narratives. Painting allows me to offload thoughts into physical space and make sense of unresolved emotions. The work explores the tension between real and fake, public and private, and the ways in which we perform within different contexts. I am drawn to the behind-the-scenes aspects of human behaviour, what is hidden and what is revealed. I want the audience to feel a false sense of security when they look at my work, drawn in by structure and familiarity, only to sense the instability beneath. My paintings are rooted in the real, but skews toward the surreal and dystopian, reflecting the inconsistencies of memory, and how information becomes distorted as it is passed between people. The paintings often depict groups of figures that merge into a singular entity, unified by colour and gesture, blurring the line between the individual and the collective.
'Lac no.2'
50 x 50 cm
Acrylic and Oil on Paper
2024
£650
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Hana Abri Smith is a visual artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Last year, she exhibited work at The Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of a group show ‘The Way of All Flesh’, curated by The Delphian Gallery. She has been funded by the Arts Council Northern Ireland, Jerwood Arts, and A-N artists. In 2020, Hana won the ‘John Richardson Award’ at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 139th annual exhibition, Ulster Museum. In 2017, Hana graduated with a BA Theatre and Film: Technical Arts and Special Effects at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London)
I explore the intersection of memory, performance, and constructed realities through staged figurative paintings. I work predominantly in oil paint, and my mediums include paper, card, canvas, and wood. I am obsessive about organising and rearranging. As part of my practice, I use collage to construct compositions that blend remembered experiences with imagined narratives. Painting allows me to offload thoughts into physical space and make sense of unresolved emotions. The work explores the tension between real and fake, public and private, and the ways in which we perform within different contexts. I am drawn to the behind-the-scenes aspects of human behaviour, what is hidden and what is revealed. I want the audience to feel a false sense of security when they look at my work, drawn in by structure and familiarity, only to sense the instability beneath. My paintings are rooted in the real, but skews toward the surreal and dystopian, reflecting the inconsistencies of memory, and how information becomes distorted as it is passed between people. The paintings often depict groups of figures that merge into a singular entity, unified by colour and gesture, blurring the line between the individual and the collective.