Sadie Hennessy - WW Gallery

Sadie Hennessy creates hybrid objects & images which are both comfortably familiar and deeply unsettling. She operates within a cultural framework of ‘Englishness’ and explores the idea of nostalgia, and more pertinently, the construct of ‘faux nostalgia’ i.e. the yearning for a time that never actually existed. In August 2010 she won the Jealous Graduate Art Prize for her final MA show (‘Accident & Emergency’) at Central St. Martins. Since then she has been experimenting with various printmaking techniques, as a vehicle for her ideas, alongside her usual practice. She is currently artist-in-residence in the printmaking department at Croydon College of Art, and is represented by WW Gallery, London.

Training

B.A. Honours in Theatre, Dartington College of Arts, Devon 1987

M.A. in Fine Art at Central St. Martins College, London 2010.

Upcoming

Diamond Geezer, group show at WW Gallery, May/June 2012

Strange Hungers solo show at WW Gallery, June/July 2012

Solo Exhibitions

Freud at Dreamland: Souvenirs of Things that Never Happened
Parfitt Gallery, Croydon Jan/Feb 2012,
curated by Michael Hall.

Help Yourself Whitstable Biennale, 2010

The Time To Be Lovely Is...Always! Square One Gallery,Chelsea, 2009

I Am History Chelsea Arts Club, 2008

Vital Signs Whitstable Biennale 2008

Pimp My Bride Avent Gallery, Dulwich, 2007

Group Exhibitions

Stable States, Cultivate, Vyner street, Feb 2012

POW! WW Gallery at Crunch Art Festival, Hay-on-Wye 2012

GFEST 2011, 7 - 20 November: Dreamspace Gallery

Afternoon Tea: Works on Paper WW Gallery at the 54 th Venice Biennale, 2011

Hybridity & Mutation HRL Contemporary, London E1, 2011

Art Star Superstore WW Gallery, London Art Fair ‘11

Multiplied Christies, London, 2010

Graduate Prize Show Jealous Gallery, London N8, 2010

The Art of Kitsch Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury 2010

Drink & Dial WW Gallery, E5, 2010

Women's Art Show Fairfields, Basingstoke, 2010

Polytek Polytek Factory, Exeter, 2009

The Birds and the Bees Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, 2009

Skullduggery Bankrobber, W11, 2008

Unnatural History Museum Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, ‘06

British Home Stories Whitstable Biennale 2006

Residencies

2011 – Currently Artist-in-Residence at Croydon Art College - which culminates in a solo show in the Parfitt Gallery in December

2011 – Mini-residency onboard Light Vessel 21, Gillingham Docks

2010 – I began a short print-making residency at the Jealous Studios as part of the Jealous Art Prize

Prizes

2010 winner of the Jealous Graduate Art Prize

Bibliography

2011 Catalogue for the UK collateral exhibtion Afternoon Tea at the 54th Venice Biennale

Publications

Press