Knox’s practice involves working with a wide variety of materials across painting and installation. Her works
inhabit the space and perform in some way; they change colour, reveal 3D images and are made from a selection of fabrics and cloths, or more recently, painted in a way that mimics them. Referencing Greek myth, art history and fashion, they fall from the ceiling, hang out on the floor or gather themselves up to make a stand-in body in the room.

Her recent shirt paintings shift between portrait and still-life, abstraction and figuration. The garments depicted – like their physical counterpart – can retain a time and place, holding a memory within them, as a pocket contains an object. These unbodied shirts provide a space to project; a recollection, a lover, a holiday, a
‘wish-list’ item from an online shopping basket.

Paradoxical and containing a series of antonyms, they are figurative without a figure, they are folded but flat. These shirts are made of linen, but you can’t wear them, and they have buttons that you can’t undo. Varying in scale, from life-size and intimate, to God-like and majestic, they switch from generic pre-packaged shirts for disposable office workers, to giant-sized XXXXL proportions, other worldly, and out of reach, speaking of status, desire and the factory line.

Hannah Knox was born in London, where she lives and works. She completed her MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2007, she has lectured in painting at a number of Colleges and Universities including; Chelsea School of Art, Oxford Brookes University and UCA Canterbury. She is represented by Badr el Jundi Gallery, in Madrid, Spain and recently had a solo exhibition there, ‘Over All’ in March 2022, and another, ‘Software’ at Four You Gallery, Dubai, in July 2022. Here in the Netherlands, at Frans Kasl Projects, she presents her most recent solo show, ‘SHOP’ with seven new paintings on view until the beginning of February 2023.