Alan Hathaway creates installations, prints and moving image works which explore the intersections between visual art, design, popular music culture, technology and daily life.

He uses intuitive processes to examine historic and contemporaneous claims for the transformative potential of abstraction and the legacies of modernism more broadly. Through the manipulation and re presentation of archival material drawn from both analogue and digital sources, his work navigates the role particular technologies play in shaping our collective cultural memories and the complexities of nostalgia itself.

Born in London, he has exhibited widely nationally and internationally: Berlin, Copenhagen, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Ukraine, Glasgow, Manchester, Edinburgh and The North East of England. 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.