Hannah Maurice studied painting at Elam and at COFA in the late nineties and earlier this century, during this period she exhibited at Anna Bibby and Mori galleries in Auckland and Sydney. Moving to France in 2003, where she lived for sixteen years, she gained her Diplôme de Céramiste at the CFA des métiers d'art Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie. Since coming home to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2018 Hannah has exhibited with dealer galleries and at the Auckland Art Fair.
Hannah paints on board and her work draws from her continuing research into antiquity, folklore and magical practices seen through a contemporary female and feminist lens. The magic of the natural world is intensely present with flora and fauna taking on both symbolic and structural significance.
"Transformation and transmutation are the keystones of my artistic practice...nothing is created nothing is lost, everything transforms...seeking and seeing the magic in life is primordial to my process. My painting is a glamour spell of magpie pieces, a recipe of my observations and thoughts which shapeshift into something of their own. My works have a defined if somewhat secret narrative, there is a sharp pointy point to my paintings. They are layered experiences of times and worlds which inhabit infinite liminal space."
Hannah lives and creates with her husband Benedict on their boat called Honeymoon on the sea of the Hauraki gulf.
by Hannah Maurice
Acrylic on Board, Cedar Frame
65cm x 43cm
$2100