MIRIAM HANCILL: CV
Lives and works in Edinburgh, UK.
Contact at mahancill@hotmail.com.
Statement
Cut. Fold. Roll out. Ink on glass. Ink on rubber. Ink on metal. Ink on canvas and paper. Pull back. Wipe up. Roll out. Fold. Repeat.
The works shown here are the products of a practice that has been intensively woven, unpicked, and patched together. A range of printed media describe the generative nature of the studio and workshop, with each subsequent work retaining traces of the previous one. The varied surfaces, from ink saturated canvas to photographic works on paper, are further imbued with meaning through the printed processes involved in their creation. This awareness of the processes applied to the works has allowed for cross pollination and expansion between practice and studio, studio and workshop and so on, with the works being informed as much by their materiality as their subject matter. By working in this reactive, accumulative manner, the processes at the heart of this practice are pushed to their limits, resulting in works that both question and contribute to the nature of contemporary printmaking.
EDUCATION
2021-2024, PhD Art (practice based), Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2018-2020, MFA Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2011-2015, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University, UK
2010-2011, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University of Sunderland, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2021
OutBound, Out Of The Blue (Drill Hall), Edinburgh, UK.
2020
ALT-D 2020 (online), Edinburgh, UK.
Summer 2020: ECA Degree Show (online), Edinburgh, UK.
2019
RELICS, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
Igneous, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
Dig Deep, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
RestUnrest, Fire Station at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
Over and Over and Over and Over, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2017-18
I give you the end of this golden thread, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Printmakers, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2015
Xmas Party, M I L K Collective Gallery, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
LAZOS/TIES, XL Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
NCL15 Degree Show ,SCIN Gallery, Shoreditch Old Street, London, UK
NCL15 Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Grabadoras, 36 Lime St, Ouseburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
RESIDENCIES
November 2021- Interdisciplinary Residency (Print Place), Hospitalfield, Arbroath
October 2017-April 2018, In Print Bursary Holder, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne
October 2015-June 2016, AA2A Artist in Residence, Sunderland University
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2020, One-offs: Monotype Workshop, Newcastle University, UK
2016, Visiting Artist at Sunderland University, UK.
PUBLICATIONS
Sadgrads Zine #1, 2020