Andrea Hannon
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The focus of Andrea Hannon’s work is grounded in the struggle of understanding individual identity, as a woman, as artist, within and against patriarchal discourse. Particularly focused within her current research on the question of how women find ways to make and think within the masculine hegemony.
Inhabiting this problem Hannon’s practice is process led, exploring the relationship between thought and action, which leads to the development of complex installation works that feature multiple narratives and strands of experimentation.
For Tainted Love Hannon has created a small installation combining artist books, collage and found objects exploring the structure of relationships and the language of love itself. Interrogating the discourse of, what Roland Barthes would call, the ‘amorous’ relationship, the installation is a response to the journey in and out of love. When the lover comes to question, ‘is it the idea of being in love that is the true obsession? Is the language of love itself tainted?’
‘Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realizes he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love to love.’ (‘A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments’ R. Barthes )
Andrea Hannon is currently undertaking a PhD by practice at Coventry School of Art whilst she lives and works in Coventry. Previous exhibitions include The Piracy Project, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 2012; She Said, The Outside World Gallery, London 2011; Healing Arts, Coventry University Hospital, Coventry, 2010; Bodies on the Edge, Artspace, Coventry, 2009.
Visit Andrea Hannon's website here
Inhabiting this problem Hannon’s practice is process led, exploring the relationship between thought and action, which leads to the development of complex installation works that feature multiple narratives and strands of experimentation.
For Tainted Love Hannon has created a small installation combining artist books, collage and found objects exploring the structure of relationships and the language of love itself. Interrogating the discourse of, what Roland Barthes would call, the ‘amorous’ relationship, the installation is a response to the journey in and out of love. When the lover comes to question, ‘is it the idea of being in love that is the true obsession? Is the language of love itself tainted?’
‘Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realizes he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love to love.’ (‘A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments’ R. Barthes )
Andrea Hannon is currently undertaking a PhD by practice at Coventry School of Art whilst she lives and works in Coventry. Previous exhibitions include The Piracy Project, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 2012; She Said, The Outside World Gallery, London 2011; Healing Arts, Coventry University Hospital, Coventry, 2010; Bodies on the Edge, Artspace, Coventry, 2009.
Visit Andrea Hannon's website here