Hannah Bays lives and works in London, UK. Interested in human drives and the construction of meaning in our lives, her recent work has focused on desire — both as a motivational force and something also open to manipulation. Notions of the body and its discontents underpin much of the work, with the alienated body often depicted in symbolic shorthand or through the anthropomorphism of inanimate objects. There is a push and pull between the abstract and figurative, the symbolic and the purely formal, with an insistence on spontaneous painterly gesture, or ‘affirmation’.
2021
oil on linen
100 x 75 cm
oil on linen
100 x 75 cm
Bitter Cup