About

I am a Polish-born and Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary artist, drawing heavily from my own life in my work.   My practice, which is in part autobiographical, is a response to current affairs and is centred around the themes of migration, injustice, and prejudice.
My current body of work is a inspired by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Franz Kafka and fuelled by real-life experiences gathered through interviews with migrants, and investigates the complex ideas of home, migration, and macro-hospitality.

I am a co-founder and Chair of Threading Stories Collective, Glasgow

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 (ongoing)

Glasgow School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking

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

2025

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