About
I am a Polish-born and Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary artist, drawing heavily from my own life in my work and investigating the complex ideas of home, migration, macro-hospitality and identity.
My work spans a wide range of media, processes and materials, including textiles, metal, wood, print, audio-visual works, photography and writing. The driving force behind my practice is the need to enter into a dialogue with the public about the values that we share, that make us human, that should unite rather than divide. Through my site-specific installations I weave the real-life experiences of migrants and stories that they have kindly shared with me around the table together with the autobiographical content, current affairs, and philosophical writings.
My writings were published in the Migrant Voice ‘All Roads Lead to Glasgow’ and in ‘Multilingual Matter(s)’ curated by Valeria Sacco.
I am a socially engaged artist and value my collaboration with communities. I am a founding member, and a Chair of a Glasgow based Threading Stories Collective and a member of Migrant Voice Steering Group
I am also a member of Scottish Artists Union, Scottish Society of Artists, Visual Arts Scotland and SaltSpace Cooperative.
ARTIST CV
Born in Poland, February 1969, currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
www.julitahanlonart.com, contact@julitahanlonart.com, Instagram: www.instagram.com/j.hanlon1
EDUCATION
Glasgow School of Art: Master of Fine Art, 2025
Glasgow School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, 2021
GSA Continued Education: Experimenting with Colour (studied under Rosemary Beaton), 2010
GSA Continued Education: Portrait Painting (studied under Jim Ramsey), 2010
University of Paisley (now University of West of Scotland): Digital Photography Level 1 and 2, 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Dec Fragile Constructs, Strange Fields, Glasgow
Oct Perpetual Motion, Scottish Society of Artists, An Lanntair, Stornaway
June A Seat At The Table, Visual Arts Scotland, South Block, Glasgow
Outside In, Migrant Voice, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
Feb Threading Colours: When Colour Becomes Connection, CassArt, Glasgow
2025
May MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow
March Migrant Voice Zine Show, street exhibitions in Glasgow/Edinburgh
Feb The Tales of Others, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
Swatched Midnight, Strange Fields, Glasgow
Threading Stories, Haberdashery, Glasgow
Jan/Feb Ye Awright, Pal? , Migrant Voice, New Glasgow Society
2024
Dec Outside In, Migrant Voice, Maryhill Borough Halls, Glasgow
Sep Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival, Threading Stories Collective, ARC Building, Glasgow
July Swatched Silver, Haberdashery, Glasgow
May/June Glasgow School of Art MFA Interim Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow
Threading Stories Collective exhibitions, Art School and New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
dhachaid ‘Home’, 308 Albert Drive, Glasgow
2022
April/May Unfinished Movement (with Graham Lister, Jek McAllister and McLaughlin + Williamson), Generator Projects, Dundee
2021
July The Alternative Degree Show Festival, The Briggait, Glasgow
May/June: ‘Balancing Art’ SaltSpace collaborative residency with Chonghe Fan and Adriana Minu
2020
August ‘Fragments’, Rogart Street Campus, Glasgow, UK (with Susan Torrance and Anuschka Barlas
March Control Alter Delete (with Clet Abraham, K. Healy, Darren Cullen, and Dr. D, curated by Marianne Vosloo)
‘Rabbit Skin’, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK (group exhibition)
2019
May ‘TrêsTrzy3’ (with Susan Torrance and Ema Ferreira):
WASPS Creative Academy, Inverness, UK (aslo showing Sharon Scoobie and Ian Whyte)
Rogart Street, Glasgow, UK
Generator Project, Dundee, UK
March ‘TrêsTrzy3’, Art School, Glasgow, UK (with Susan Torrance and Ema Ferreira)
2010
April ‘The invasion of time’, solo photographic exhibition, Magpie Eye Gallery, Glasgow, UK
COMMISSIONS
2019 ‘Harper’ portrait, private commission, 2018
COLLECTIONS
‘Let’s burn the books’, photograph, private collection, Glasgow, UK
‘Tenderness’, oil painting, private collection, Warsaw, Poland
‘Harper’, oil painting, private collection, Sydney, Australia
MEMBERSHIP
SaltSpace Co-operative, Glasgow, UK
Scottish Artists Union
Chair: Threading Stories Collective