Hannah Kate Absalom

Absalom’s work explores the themes of religion, dogma and the supernatural, most obviously through her contemporary interpretation of mythologies and iconography, and crucially in more subtle, but certainly more common forms. These include the symbolism and semantics of body gestures, shapes, colours, abstract words and sounds, which are, in their essence, meaningless, but have been used since ancient times to represent particular beliefs and beings, so tend to be very emotive and recognisable by the viewer. Absalom’s artwork tends to take the form of oil paintings, woodcuts and short films with recent experimentation into collage, sculpture and installation.