Alan Hathaway creates installations, prints, drawings and experimental films which explore the intersections between art, popular music culture, design, technology and daily life.

Using pre fabricated materials, appropriation and modes of both analogue and digital reproduction, he oscillates between references to modernist abstraction and the cultural significance of popular music culture – particularly for working class people in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.

His work draws on his early immersion in pop’s visuals – particularly the abstract signs and situationist tactics of Jamie Reid, Peter Saville and Ben Kelly – whilst simultaneously utilising conceptual tendencies within visual art, design and abstraction itself, to understand and re present the complexities of our cultural and social histories.

Born in London, he has exhibited widely nationally and internationally: Berlin, Copenhagen, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Ukraine, Glasgow and Edinburgh. His work is held in the British Museum’s drawing and print archive as well as numerous private collections internationally. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and been artist in residence at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). He has recently received awards from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, DCMS, Arts Council England, Creative UK, CVAN and The North East Artist’s Fund in partnership with BALTIC Gateshead.