Alan Hathaway is a visual artist who uses installation, print, photography and film to engage with the recent histories of abstract art, architecture and experimental popular music culture. 

Using an archival approach to found imagery and diverse material processes, he creates works which consider the utopian ideologies of modernism within these histories; and the spectral effect modernism’s forms and concepts continue to exert on the present. By utilising the glitches, imperfections or ‘ghosts’ inherent to degraded VHS video, analogue printing, pixelated YouTube uploads, repurposed industrial materials and liminal spaces, he foregrounds the way in which our cultural memories are encoded within particular technological, spatial and physical encounters.

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 where he is currently based. 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.