About

Alison Hand is a painter and writer with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Hand's paintings create absurd, unstable heterotopic spaces, palimpsests of imagined structures, dialogues with painting history, and objects with a latent hostility. She is interested in things that are hard to explain – dreams, ghosts, time as inseparable from space, ancient monuments. She uses recurring images, multiple moons, and graffiti as signifiers of chaos or simultaneity, and as metaphors for the illusion of painting.

Hand is currently the Artist in Residence for Kings College London Philosophy Department on the Dreams and Wakeful Consciousness Research Project. Awards for painting include the Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Award; the Painters' and Stainers' Gordon Luton Award; and the Stevenson Harwood Award. 

Hand is currently working with Bloomsbury Publishers on a major essay on Drawing in Contemporary Art, and has recently published books with DK Penguin Random House.

Hand is BA Fine Art Programme Leader at Art Academy London, and co-director of Cement www.cementarts.co.uk

Contact: alisonhandartist@gmail.com