SEEFOOD ROOM is delighted to announce the solo exhibition of Hannah Rollings (b. 1985, United Kingdom), See, Feel, Mark: A Journey of Exploration Painting in Hong Kong.
Rollings will participate in the third Seafood Residency Programme, traveling from the UK to paint Hong Kong's landscapes. This plein-air exhibition will document eight distinctive sites across the city.
Over two weeks eminent visual artist and scholar, Rollings, will conduct an immersive plein-air painting performance and exhibition. She will interpret and portray the unique landscapes and botanical elements of Hong Kong.
Rollings, a venerated practitioner of plein-air painting, connects profoundly with her environment through an artistic experience that explores an emotive response to colour and mark-making. Her method delicately straddles the line between abstraction and representation. As an environmental custodian, she employs traditional landscape painting techniques to encapsulate the essence of the land.
Plein-air Performance Locations, 10am-6pm Daily:
The Peak (3rd September)
Repulse Bay (4th September)
Tai Tam Reservoir (5th September)
Lion's Rock (6th September)
Bonham Road (7th & 8th September)
Sai Kung (9th September)
Lamma Island (10th September)
Mui Wo (11th September)
Programme
Workshop:
En Plein-Air painting workshop
Open to all, kids friendly
A collaborative art project engaging the community
Date: 7 September, Saturday, 2-6pm
600HKD /person
Location: Arkeden, Meiwo
RSVP:https://forms.gle/uXCJ2BtG4a8XRriQ7
All materials provided. Places are limited to 30. Participants can take their work home. Please contact inquiries@seefoodroom.com
Artist Panel Discussion:
Immersion in Place: Connecting and depicting the land
Date: 8 September, Sunday,
Time: 4pm-6pm
Location: Soho house, 1/F
Capacity: 100
RSVP: inquires@seefoodroom.com
Co-present by British Council, HKBU AVA, Soho House, SFR
Free event, open to all.
Speakers:
Hannah Rollings (Artist)
Kyle Chung (Head of Arts at British Council)
Tom O’Dea
(Assistant Professor, Programme Director of B.A. (Hons) in Visual Arts,
Academy of Visual Arts, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University)
About the Artist
Hannah Rollings (b. 1985, UK) was born in the creative seaside town of Hastings, where she relished the art foundation course at Hastings College. She continued to study and received a first-class BA (Hons) in Illustration and Animation at Kingston University in 2007 and a Master of Arts in Sequential Design and Illustration in 2013 at the University of Brighton.
In 2014, she embarked on a practice-led AHRC-funded PhD through Kingston University and the London Doctoral Design Centre, focusing on picturing trees. Her love of nature and the outdoors gained further importance in her practice. She collaborated with the Forestry Commission and school children to develop site-specific interactive work encouraging a reconnection with nature, titled ‘From Screen to Green’.
Rollings has continued this reconnection through a prolific body of work over the last year, working plein air and on a larger scale in her home studio in the Surrey Hills.
EDUCATION
PhD, Kingston School of art, 2014-present
MA, University of Brighton, 2011-2013
Diploma, University of Brighton, 2008-2010
BA, Kingston School of art, 2004-2007
EXHIBITIONS
13th June 2024, 'England is a Forest' Small Works Gallery, Sluice (Vernacular) Expo at the Minories, Colchester. (Group exhibition)
9th-13th May 2024, 'The Change Within' Amelia Maxwell, JM Gallery, London. (Group exhibition).
9th-20th April 2024, 'It's A Small World' Blossom Art Agency, Paris. (Group exhibition)
9th & 10th March 2024, 'Therapeutic Landscapes: Ritual Folklore and Wellbeing'. University of Worcester. (Group exhibition)
2023, A Chorus of Colour, Milieu Studio, St. Ives, UK (Group)
2023, Makers Barn, Petworth, West Sussex, UK (Group)
2023, Travelling Bazaar, Farnham, Surrey, UK (Group)
2022, The Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery, Design Museum, LDOC Legacy Event, UK (Group)
2020, World Illustration Awards, Online (Group)
2018, World Illustration Awards, Somerset House, London, UK (Group)
2017, Write for Rights and Book Launch 'Freedom to Express Yourself' Amnesty International HQ, London, UK (Group)
2015, Research in Art & Design, Platform Gallery, Knights Park, Kingston University, UK (Group)
2015, London Places and Spaces, London Transport Museum, London, UK (Group)
2015, Bologna Book Fair, Italy (Group)
2014, Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany (Group)
2013, Graduate Exhibition MA, University of Brighton, UK (Group)
2011, Victoria and Albert Illustration Awards, V&A, London, UK (Group)
2011, Cheltemham Illustration Awards, The University of Gloucestershire and Summerfield Gallery, Pittville Studios, UK (Group) 2010, Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK (Group)
2009, Manchester Artists Book Fair, Manchester University, UK (Group)
2009, Publish and Be Damned Festival, Oxford House, London, UK (Group)
2008, Student Illustrator of the Year Prizewinners, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (Group)
2007, Graduate Show BA, Coningsby Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2007, D&AD Best New Blood Winner, Billingsgate London, UK (Group)