Alison Hand BA MA RCA CV
Education
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 1999-2001
BA (hons) First Class, Fine Art, University of Wales, Cardiff, 1996-1999
Lecturing and professional practice
Co-Director of Cement, 2023-current
BA Fine Art Programme Leader, Art Academy London, 2013-current
Visiting Lecturer, The Royal College of Art, 2019-current
Residencies
Current Artist in Residence with Kings College Art & Philosophy Department on their Dreams and Wakeful Consciousness Research Project. 2022 - 2025
Writer in Residence, Abstract Critical Journal, Nov 2011-Jan 2012
Selected exhibitions
Forthcoming: Solo exhibition as the Artist in Residence for Centre for Art and Philosophy with Kings’ College London. Wakeful Consciousness Project, exhibition to be held at the Freud Museum, London, 2025
Forthcoming: Beauty Spot, Alison Hand and Julian Wild, Burntwood Studios, East Sussex, September 2023
The Space Collective, Koppel Project, London, May 2023
Ruin, Way Out East Gallery, London, February 2023
Ruins, Poola Gallery, Pula, Croatia, 2022
Emergent Visions, Uncovered Collective, site-specific painting in derelict houses, London, 2020
The Speed of Thought, interdisciplinary drawing show and publication, devised and curated by Alison Hand and Isabel Young - Hand and Young Projects, Newington Gallery London then touring. November 2019.
40 Celsius, ASC Gallery, London, November 2018
A Caroming, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, May 2018
Panel discussion, Utopias and painting, Concept Gallery, London, May 2018
Summer Salon, Lubomirov Angus Hughes Gallery, London, August 2017
Architecture of Landscape, Alison Hand and Isabel Young, Arthouse1 Gallery, London, February 2017
Bread and Jam 1, Brockley, London, July 2015
Alison Hand and Neil Morley, Bay Arts Gallery, Cardiff, 2012
Structure, CoExist Gallery, Southend on Sea, 2012
Core Gallery Open, London, 2011
Citizen, Tactile Bosch Gallery, Cardiff, 2011
Marmite Painting Prize, 2010
Core Gallery Open, London, 2010
Perspectives from a Gentleman’s Seat, Artgene Gallery, Barrow, 2010
Space Studios Open, London, 2008
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
Truancy, Limehouse Arts Foundation, London, 2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London, 2000
Art Futures, Royal Festival Hall, London / Barbican Centre, London, 1999 & 2000
RWA Artists, Royal West of England Academy, 1999
Selected publications
Forthcoming: 6000 word article on Drawing in Contemporary Art for a new Encyclopedia of Visual Culture published by Bloomsbury. Publication due for 2024.
‘How Art Works’, published book for DK Penguin Random House, 2023
‘The Artists Manual’, contributing author for published book for DK Penguin Random House, 2022
‘Lines, Stripes, and Squares’, Abstract Critical, 2012
‘Monuments’, Abstract Critical, 2011
‘Installation’, Abstract Critical, 2011
‘History and Heritage’, two English Heritage commissions for the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, 2010
‘Isabel Young - Paintings’, essay for the Laing Gallery on the Laing Solo Series, 2009
‘Art and Education’, Architects Journal, 2008
‘Rockwell’, exhibition essay for the Rockwell Gallery, London, 2007
‘Sustaining Tower Blocks’, Building for a Future journal, 2006
‘Out in the open’, Blueprint, 2005
Curatorial projects
The Speed of Thought - interdisciplinary large scale drawing exhibition and symposium, devised and curated by Alison Hand and Isabel Young Projects, 2019
Architecture of Landscape, exhibition proposal and curation, Hand and Young, 2017
‘If you look like your passport picture, you’re too ill to travel’ exhibition curated by Hand and Morley Special Projects, Sheffield Institute of Arts, 2012
The Souvenir Project, H&M Special Projects, Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick, 2010
Appointments
Art Gene Board of Directors appointment, 2008-2012: Board Director for Cumbrian arts and research organisation Artgene, who specialise in landscape and regeneration projects with artists.
Public art commissions
Commission for a large scale architectural cladding and manifestation design for a new £4m London primary school, 2013
Prizes and Awards
Bartlett Research Award to review ‘Estratos Contemporaneos Art Biennale, Murcia, Spain, 2008
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award for Postgraduate research, 2007-09
The Gordon Luton Award, Painters’ and Stainers’ Guild, 2002
Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Award, 1999-2001
The Stevenson Harwood Award, 2001
Collections
British Airways
Richard Heaton, London
Basil Alkazzi Foundation