Artist Profile

HANNAH QUINLIVAN

I’VE NEVER BEEN THE KIND OF artist who sits idle waiting for inspiration to strike. My art practice is exactly that, a daily practice that is honed through reiteration. I work out my ideas through making, not the other way around. This is why I make.

When preparing to create a new work, I like to visit the space it will be exhibited in and think about the effects I want to elicit in the viewer. The big decisions about

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