Hanna Kay
Visual Artist (Upper Hunter Valley, NSW)

Born in Israel, painter Hanna Kay has followed her artistic inspirations across the world, to immerse herself at times in the fast-paced intensity of urbanized art centres such as Vienna, New York and Sydney, and at times in the subtler intensity of the Australian deserts, countryside and rural towns. Along the way, Hanna has exhibited extensively solo, as well as in collaboration with other artists, in Israel, Europe, the U.S.A and Australia, establishing herself as an international artist. Today, residing in both Sydney’s inner west and the Upper Hunter Valley in NSW, she is inspired by the double and polarized life she leads, regularly working for exhibitions in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. It seems that the transient nature of Hanna’s life, in particular the relationship that she establishes with a place, is the key to understanding her work and generally her approach to painting.

The themes in Hanna’s work range from the more natural environment, realised in her paintings with trees, sticks, pebbles, stone-scapes, cloud formations and implied fossils, to the more human environment and psychology, realised with stairs, shoes, human shadows, ropes and tokens of childhood games such as hopscotch, skipping rope and dolls. By drawing upon familiar tokens from these environments, Hanna’s choice of themes are the way she explores and challenges ways of perceiving our surroundings as well as our human identities.

To view Hanna's stunning catalogue of works, visit her website below.

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