Contact hattyvhbuchanan@me.com

Instagram @buchananhatty

 

Born 1967 in London

Hatty lives and works between the Midlands and London.

 

Hatty Buchanan spent part of her childhood in Bangladesh and travelled extensively through Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from the late 1970s through the 1990s – experiences that continue to shape how she looks and what she reaches for. She worked for several decades in West End and Broadway theatre before founding one of the first content and ticketing platforms in British theatre. She later led a creative community in London’s East End.

Hatty Buchanan works with cloth that already has a history, marked by years of contact with a body, suffering damage it was never designed to survive. Her practice is grounded in five decades of embodied knowledge and shaped by research into how damage is held across time: materially, physiologically, and culturally. In a moment that converts difficult experience into content and demands resolution, her work takes a deliberate stance. What is withheld is as considered as what is made.

  • Education

    2024 Post Graduate Certificate, Contemporary Fine Art Practice, New Art School
    2010 MA Applied Imagination, Central St Martin's, University of the Arts, London UK
    1997 Post Graduate Diploma,  Film Intensive, New York University, USA
    1990 BA History of Art, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK

     
    Exhibitions

    2026 Ingram Prize, London Art Fair - curated presentation
    2025 Ingram Prize Finalist, London - Selected Group Exhibition
    2025 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London - Selected Group Exhibition
    2024 Stranger Within, off-site project, Rochelle School, London - w/Cecilia Sojoholm
    2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London  - Selected Group Exhibition
    2023 Filet Space, London - Solo Presentaion
    2022 The Comrades They Were Brave, London - Artist Curated Group Exhibition
    2021 No Reserve, Intersectional Feminist Art Collective (INFEMS), Leicester - Selected Group Exhibition
    2020 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London - Selected Group Exhibition
    2020 Layered Space, Leicester Print Workshop - Selected Group Exhibition

     
    Residencies/Study Tours

    2026, Cove Park, Scotland

    2025, The Mothership, Yto Barrada artist-led project, Morocco

    2024, Glasgow, Scotland

     

    selected PRESS

    Stranger Within, New Exhibitions, 2024
    Stranger Within, Show Studio, 2024
    The Comrades They Were Brave, Art Monthly, 2022

     

    Hatty's work is held in various private collections, including the Private Collection of Maureen Paley, and can be viewed on the White Columns Artists' Registry.