HANNAH CLARKSON
CV
Education
2021-25 Royal College of Art, London - PhD Arts & Humanities
2018-19 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm - Guest fellowship
2017-18 Konstfack, Stockholm – Research Lab
2015-17 Konstfack, Stockholm - MFA
2010-13 Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University - BFA
b. 1991, Cambridge, UK
Awards / residencies
2023
Researcher-in-Residence, National Theatre Archive, London
2021
AHRC London Arts and Humanities Partnership Doctoral Award
2021
Konstnarsnamnden Artist Working Grant
2019
Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards (longlist) for The Green Room:
Perspectives on Artistic Research,
Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Two year Research and Development funding, Royal Institute of
Art, Stockholm.
Meeting Point commission (nomination), Arts & Heritage England.
2018
Helge-Axelssons Stifelse.
2017
Estrid Erikksons Travel Award.
Stiftelsen Den Nordiska Första S:t Johannis Logens JubelFond.
Fleming och Färngrens stipendiestiftelse.
Vasakronans stipendium (shortlist).
2016
Residency at Platform Southwark, London.
Konstfacks stipendium.
2015
Residency at Blackhorse Lane Studios, Barbican Arts Group Trust.
2014
Special Judge's Award at ArtWorks Open at the Barbican Arts
Group Trust, London.
Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome, shortlist.
2013
Official Trophy-maker for Raindance Film Festival, London.
Leverhulme Arts Scholar at the Wysing Arts Centre.
Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision shortlist.
2012
Pirye Prize shortlist, Oxford University Press.
2011
Waddeston Manor Postcard Prize (1st place).
Exhibitions
2024
Chasma, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
2023
whole body like gone: Jocelyn Herbert & Samuel Beckett, Wimbledon
Space, London
Earthwise, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
RCA Research Biennale, Copeland Gallery, London
2022
She Speaks Up, 228 Chingford Mount Road, London
Insyn, Eric Ericsonhallen, Stockholm
Unruly Encounters, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2021
Under Barnhusbron, OohLaLa Klara, Stockholm
Mot Framtiden, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
The Thinking Hand, Royal Palace, Stockholm
2020
Whisper it Loud, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway
2019
Ventilation, Galleri Hörnan, Falun
Monkshood, Munkbron, Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Tadzio’s Clothes, Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Germany
Lonely Hearts Club, Kungstensgatan 27, Stockholm,
Sweden
2018
Arkivet för Temporär Konst, Old scenography for Satan’s
Democracy immersive theatre, Sickla, Sweden
Rundgång, Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
The Green Room III, Gustavsberg Konsthall, Stockholm
The Green Room II, Konstfack, Stockholm
The Green Room I, Index Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
Best Laid Plans, Årsta Konsthall, Stockholm
2017
Do You Think I’m Pretty?, Monks, Stockholm
Stockholms Poesifestivalen, Nobelmuseet, Stockholm
Crafting 9-5, Kårgalleriet, Stockholm
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
Konstfack Spring Exhibition, Stockholm
RELAPSE: 2nd edition, group show with RELAPSE Collective, Athens
2016
Stuff it!, KoG Gallery, Konstfack, Stockholm
MiniMax, Marabouparkens Konsthall, Stockholm
A Cork For Platform, Permanent installation, Platform Southwark, London
‘3459’, Flux Factory, New York & Tom's Etching Studio, London
BODIES+CITIES SKIN, Venice Art House
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, Stockholm
Taking Space, Mobilgatan carpark, Stockholm
A Little Less Conversation, Konstfack, Stockholm
2015
Parade Presents: Group Show, LondonNewcastle Project Space, London
Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol
Hannah Clarkson feat. Brian Catling, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London
Hannah Clarkson & Kyle Kirkpatrick, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London
Solo exhibition, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2014
Vulpes Vulpes Open, Bermondsey, London
ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Blackhorse Lane, London
The Hides of Nowhere, Solo exhibition, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
2013
Leverhulme Young Artists, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambs.
The Ruskin Degree Show 2013, The Old Powerstation, Oxford
Is This It, solo exhibition at the Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, Oxford
Turner Prize Party, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Solo exhibition in The Mezzanine, Oxford
2012
15 New Bridge Street, London
Pigeon Place group exhibition, Oxford
Installation in Worcester College Chapel, Oxford
2011
Ruskin Shorts at Modern Art Oxford
Parapraxis, Freud Restaurant & Bar, Oxford
2010 - present
2010 - present
Selected Publications
2024
'Getting Ready' in Makings journal, Summer 2024.
'Autoimmune Animations' in Itinerant Space, Issue II, Summer 2024.
2023
The Jocelyn Herbert Collection in the National Theatre Archive newsletter, October 2023.
2022
'A Desire to Seal the Disturbance' in Mutterings, She Speaks Up, London.
'Care and Constraint in Jocelyn Herbert’s Design Drawings for Samuel Beckett' in Small Acts: Performance as co-research, London: Wimbledon College of Art.
2021
'Building Bridges: A Conversation between Friends, about Language, Laziness, and Long-distance Running' (co-written with Matilda Tucker) in Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture, Vol. 2 No. 1.
‘Rama Thiaw : “La lutte politique, la lutte des corps et la musique”’, Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World, February 2021.
Writing the Body, Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm. 'Raising the Voice: Sculptural and Spoken Narratives from the Flat Sheet' in Journal for Artistic Research, Amsterdam.
2020
Tales from the Kitchen Table (ed.), Fisksätra Museum, Stockholm.
‘Decolonising the Ailing Body’ in Decolonizing Architecture (ed.), Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm.
Shelter. Published in collaboration with participants of the course ‘Synonyms for Shelter’ at KKH, Stockholm.
'Your Hair will Grow Back a Poppyfield' in American Society of Anesthesiologists journal, April 2020.
‘Stories from Here and Elsewhere’ in Practice Sharing, Volume 1: Language-Based Artistic Research (Special Interest Group). Society of Artistic Research.
‘Where does it hurt? : Writing the Ailing Body’. Conference paper. IMLR and CCWW's Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities seminar series.
2019
A Traveller's Trees, catalogue text for Sonja Löfgren's exhibition at Katariina Studio, Helsinki.
2018
The Green Room: Perspectives on Artistic Research (ed.), Konstfack, Stockholm.
Close Up!, catalogue text for exhibition and symposium on
Contemporary Jewellery, Konstfack, Stockholm.
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2012-17
TakeOne magazine (editor and writer), Cambridge Film Festival.
2011-13
aRm magazine (Founding Editor), Oxford University Press.
Teaching/workshops/pedagogy
2020-present
Creative writing workshops for Post-Master students at the
Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
2020
Listening: Here & Elsewhere, a storytelling workshop at Fisksätra
Museum, Stockholm.
2019-20
Creative writing workshops for Bachelor and Master students
at the Royal Institute of
Art, Stockholm.
2018
Workshop leader of The Green Room, a workshop about artistic
research in the field of Craft,
Konstfack / Index, Stockholm.
2013-16
Illustrator and imaging executive on educational projects for
teaching design in high school,
DOT Project, Cambridge University Department for Engineering
and Design.
2013-14
Art Teacher and Head of Art, School years 7-13. Focus School, Cambridge.
2012-13
Blacksmith's Assistant to Matthew Galpin, Artist/Blacksmith, London.