Rachel Hannan | Tercet 8
Tercet 8 | 2025
64 x 64 cm
Oil on canvas
Timber frame
$1,800
Lucidity and Obliteration
After a near fatal horse riding accident in October 2024, months in hospital fighting for my life and leg, I have returned to one of my first loves, abstraction, exploring themes of mortality, loss and growth. This new work is an expansion of the techniques and themes I worked on for a decade in the early 2000s. Due to an ongoing lack of mobility, the new works are smaller and considered, reflecting my unfurling interior landscape; one of new parameters, physical constrictions but ironically, mental freedom.
Rachel Hannan, June 2025
EXHIBITIONS and PRIZES
2025: Group “Abstract Assemblies” Wayout Artspace, Kandos NSW, satellite exhibition of the 8th International Biennale of Non Objective Art (BIANO8).
2025: Solo “Lucidity and Obliteration” - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2024: Solo “Becoming Home” - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2023: Solo “In My Element” - Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, NSW
2023: Solo “Right at Home” - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2022: Solo “Cliffs and Dancing Wildflowers” -Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, NSW
2022: Solo “Blooms and Bedrock” - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2021: Lethbridge Small Scale Works, Finalist - Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
2021: Solo “On the Edge” - Purple Noon Gallery, Freeman’s Reach, NSW
2021: Solo “The Big and the Small of It” - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2019: Solo "Inside Outside Upside Down" - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2019: Naked and Nude Art Prize, Finalist - Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW
2019: Blue Mountains Portraits - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW
2018: Christmas Works - Floral Ink, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2018: Group Christmas Show - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2018: Solo "Brazen" - Day Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
2018: Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Contemporary Finalist - Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
2018: Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Finalist - Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2018: Calleen Art Award, Finalist - Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
2017: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Director's Choice Award, Winner - "Summer Exposure", Springwood, NSW
2017: Ceramic vessels and wearable - Lyttleton Stores Atelier, Lawson, NSW
2107: Little Things Art Prize, Finalist - Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2017: Group Show - Emma's Cottage Vineyard, Lovedale, NSW
2017: Solo: “Wild Thing” - Braemar Gallery, Springwood, NSW
2016: “Perlucere” 2 person show - Virgin Walls, Blackheath NSW
2011: Solo: “Warp and Weft” - Art Systems Wickham, Newcastle NSW
2011: Solo: “Layers and Abstraction” - Number 47, Rylstone NSW
2011: “Group Show” - Hathill Gallery, Blackheath NSW
2010: “Double Vision” 2 person show - Hathill Gallery, Blackheath NSW
1992: “Watt Decade” Group Show - Watt Space, Newcastle NSW
1992: Graduate Show University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW
