NICHOLAS HATFULL
Hatfull’s work reflects encounters in casual dining environments, forcefully repurposing scavenged motifs in stark compositions. The layers of gourmet food-to-go’s understated, yet overwhelming presence are sensitively opened out for interpretation, with far-reaching associations evoked. Working in machined relief sculpture, packaging design and silkscreens, Hatfull’s work transplants material from different graphic realms, both ubiquitous and esoteric.
Hatfull graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2011 and was the Sainsbury scholar in Painting and Sculpture, British School at Rome, 2011-2012. Previous solo exhibitions include ORSO River Grave (No Rush Before Dawn), Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, 2013, Solo River Grave, Peles Empire, London, 2012 and Ignorant with the Suncream (Seafroot Delivery), Karsten Schubert, London, 2009. Selected group shows include Pre-pop to Post-human: Collage in the Digital Age, curated by Isobel Harbison, Hayward Touring, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 2014, Open Heart Surgery, Moving Museum, London, 2013, Something New, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, 2012, D’Après Giorgio, curated by Luca lo Pinto, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, 2012, Re-generation, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2012, and Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2010.
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