About
With a professional practice spanning twenty years Hannah has shown in galleries and festivals in New Zealand and around the world. Hannah gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury. She has been an Olivia Spencer Bower Trust Award Recipient and Artist in Residence at Scott Base, Antarctica. In 2016 she won the Parkin Prize for Drawing.
Her often playful work examines notions of magic through an investigation of natural phenomena.
These explorations of the natural world are inhabited by the exotic, the sublime and the monstrous. A storyteller and collector, her cabinet of curiosities reflects a sense of wonder, while suggesting that things may not be as they seem. Hannah pulls all manner of dreams and visions through cracks and holes and into the gallery, confidently transporting the viewer to a new reality.
Select reviews can be found in the About menu, an edited Biography below...
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Travellers
Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2017
Hannah Beehre, Mures, et Terram
COCA, Christchurch
2016
Mures, et Terram
SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
2016
Cosmology
Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2015
New Paintings
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2012
Waters Above, Waters Below,
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu
2011
Lilith and Cruithne,
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2009
Postcard to Casablanca And Rodriguez,
Te Tuhi, Auckland.
Hannah and Aaron Beehre,
Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane.
2007
Winter Rose, Christchurch Arts Festival.
JS0307, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2006
Hannah and Aaron Beehre,
Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland.
2005
Wuhan Leaves, Wuhan Youth Palace,
Wuhan, China.
WCG0905, Wellington City Gallery.
SF1105, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch.
JS0505, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2003
JS1203, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
BLOY0503, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin.
AK03, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland.
2002
PHY0902, The Physics Room, Christchurch.
JS0802, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018-19
Tunnel
2018 SCAPE Art in Public Spaces Biennial
Museum of Canterbury, Christchurch.
2013
Among the Machines, DPAG, Dunedin.
2013
Myths, Monsters and Magical Things,
The Dowse, Wellington.
2010
Double Vision,
Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures.
2009
Snare Mahanga,
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch.
2008
Scape, Art in Public Spaces Biennial, Christchurch.
2007
Art School 125,
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu.
In Limbo, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland.
2006
Out of Erewhon,
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu.
Paint, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland.
2005
Group Exhibition,
Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland.
POPuluxe, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2004
Medienkunst aus Neuseeland im Cityquartier Frankfurter Welle, Germany.
Toi Te Papa, State of the Nation exhibition,
Te Papa, Wellington.
Christchurch Art Gallery Contemporary Collection, Te Puna O Waiwhetu.
2003
Third Goodman-Suter Contemporary Art Exhibition, Suter Gallery, Nelson.
Lunchbox, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.
2002
Waikato Art Awards, Waikato Museum of Art, Hamilton.
2001
Prospect, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington.
Awards/Grants
2016
Parkin Prize Winner
2015
Parkin Drawing Prize Highly Commended
2013
Parkin Drawing Prize Special Mention
2012
Scott Base Antarctica
Artist in Residence
2004
Olivia Spencer Bower Trust
Award Recipient
2002 Waikato Art Award Finalist
Collections
Te Papa Tongawera, Wellington
Christchurch Art Gallery
Fletcher Trust Collection, Auckland
City of Wuhan, China