Alison Hand

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Born: North Yorkshire 1977
Lives: London

Education
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 1999-2001
BA (hons) First Class Fine Art, University of Wales, Cardiff 1996-1999

Teaching
Fine Art Tutor at The Art Academy, London


Solo Exhibitions
Perspectives from a Gentleman's Seat, Artgene, 2010

Group Exhibitions
Alison Hand and Neil Morley, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff, 2012
Structure, CoExist Gallery, Southend on Sea, 2012
Core Gallery Open, London, 2011
Citizen, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, 2011
Marmite Painting Prize / catalogue, 2010
Core Gallery Open, London, 2010
Souvenir Project, Hand & Morley Special Projects, Berwick, 2009
Current Vision, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London 2006
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales 2004
Ideologues and Demigods, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London 2004
Aftershock,1aspace gallery, Hong Kong 2004
Wellworth, Group Exhibition, Keith Talent Gallery, London, 2002
London Calling 2, RM Art, Essen, Germany 2002
Royal college of Art, Final show 2001
Truancy, Limehouse Arts Foundation, London 2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London 2000
Art Futures, Royal Festival Hall, London / Barbican Centre, London 1999 & 2000
Group Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy 1999


Grants/Awards
Bartlett Travel Award to �Estratos Contemporaneos� � Contemporary Art
Programme in Murcia, Spain 2008
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award for Postgraduate research
at the Bartlett School of Architecture 2007-09
The Gordon Luton Award, Painters� and Stainers� Guild 2002
TI Travel Awards to Canada, Budapest and Berlin 1999-2001
Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Award 1999-2001
The Stevenson Harwood Award 2001

Collections

British Airways
Richard Heaton, London
Royal College of Art
Basil Alkazzi Foundation


Projects
'If you look like your passport picture, you're too ill to travel', curated by Hand and Morley Special Projects, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, 2012
Writer in Residence, Abstract Critical Journal, November 2011-January 2012
�Re-visioning Utopia�, Art Gene - artist and architect charrette
exploring regeneration in Barrow-in-Furness July 2009
Art Gene Board of Directors appointment 2008-ongoing
Presentation of paper on installation art and contemporary spatial practices
at the Bartlett International Research Conference March 2008
Postgraduate research into art and architecture, Bartlett School of
Architecture, University College London 2007-09


Publications
Lines, Stripes, and Squares, Abstract Critical, January 2012
Monuments, Abstract Critical, December 2011
Installation, Abstract Critical, November 2011
Catalogue essay and poem commissioned by English Heritage, Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, 2009
Extended essay commissioned by the Laing Contemporary Art Gallery,
Newcastle, on Laing Solo painting show 2008
Article accompanying exhibition at Rockwell Gallery, London 2007
Article �Sustaining our Tower Blocks�, published in Building for a Future journal 2005
Article on architectural interventions and public art published
in Blueprint journal 2004