Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Hattie Malcomson (b.1998) is an artist living and working in London, currently studying an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. She was the recipient of the Cass Art X Phoenix studio award after graduation from her BA at the University of Brighton in 2020. This included a year's studio residency where she worked on her first solo show ‘Sisters, Sisters, Sisters’ that opened in April 2021 at New ArtProjects in London as well as one later that year ‘I’m like other girls’, at Phoenix Art Space. Since then she has exhibited in different parts of the UK, as well as LA. 

Education
(current) MA Painting-Royal College of Art
BA Fine Art Painting-University of Brighton

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Cass Art X Phoenix Studio Award

Solo Exhibitions: 
2021 'Sisters, Sisters, Sisters', New Art Projects, London
2021 'I'm like other girls', Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

Select Group Exhibitions:
2024 'Body Songs', Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2023 'If you are lost, this is where you can be found', Safehouse 2, London
2022 'Accessible Art Show', Black White Gallery, London
2022 'Roots', Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
2021 'Press & Play', Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
2020 'SALT', The Regency Town House, Brighton

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
My works consist of female characters who act to represent figures, archetypes or ideas from myth. Painted in humorous ways, they attempt to mimic and mock the representation of women in western historical stories. Sensuality exists next to the grotesque as the paintings simultaneously attract and repulse. The myths are brought into a new context, as the divinity or evil that they have projected on to women in this madonna-whore dichotomy are unpacked. I use my own body to speak to the present time as I perform these characters, or wear them as a mask. This is to say that although ridiculous and absurd, these stories are still influential to our current societal ways of constructing the world, despite our arrogance to think they are tiresome and banal ideas of the past. As a painter who usually works to a large scale, these postcards have acted as an intimate exercise for me. This intimacy and lack of information has been combined with rawness or the grotesque, giving a new element to the work.


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