Alan Hathaway is a visual artist working across installation, print, photography and moving image. 

Using diverse media, he engages with aspects of abstract art, architecture and popular music culture. Through the manipulation and re presentation of digital and analogue material, and an archival approach to found imagery, his work examines the way in which our cultural memories are forged within certain technologies and material encounters: VHS video, analogue photography, half tone printing, You Tube videos, the vinyl record, lo fi zines, the museum artefact. 

Through this focus on what Mark Fisher has termed materialised memory, he considers the way in which the progressive spatial, political, social and cultural utopias implicit to modernism, have failed to materialise.

Born in London, he has exhibited widely nationally and internationally: Berlin, Copenhagen, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Ukraine, Glasgow, Manchester, Edinburgh and across 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 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.