Miriam Hancill is a printmaker and practice-based PhD researcher. She lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Miriam’s practice teases out the generative sensations of print making through material-led inquiry. It makes explicit the media, tools, decisions, and actions of the printmaker within the workshop setting – harnessing print's inherent uncertainty, and adopting a practical methodology driven by processual awkwardness. Textiles play an important role in Miriam's work, their malleability and variable scale providing points of potential through which the conventions of the discipline can begin to be unpicked.
Education
Selected Exhibitions
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017-18
Roles
2022-ongoing
Awards / Grants / Scholarships
Residencies
Talks / Workshops
Publications
Miriam’s practice teases out the generative sensations of print making through material-led inquiry. It makes explicit the media, tools, decisions, and actions of the printmaker within the workshop setting – harnessing print's inherent uncertainty, and adopting a practical methodology driven by processual awkwardness. Textiles play an important role in Miriam's work, their malleability and variable scale providing points of potential through which the conventions of the discipline can begin to be unpicked.
Education
PhD Art (by practice), Edinburgh College of Art, UK [funded by the Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarship] (2021-2025).
MFA Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College of Art, UK. (2018-2020).
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University, UK. (2011-2015).
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University of Sunderland, UK. (2010-2011).
Selected Exhibitions
2025
[upcoming solo show] a tarlatan net, Mote 102, Edinburgh, UK. 12th – 14th September.
2024
PhD Showcase 2024, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
2023
peripheral acts, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, UK. In collaboration with Sinéad Kempley.
PhD Showcase 2023, The Fire Station at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
Projects Half Done, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
2022
South College Street: Past, Present, Future, Edinburgh Futures Institute at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
2021
OutBound, Out Of The Blue (Drill Hall), Edinburgh, UK.
2020
ALT-D 2020 (online), Edinburgh, UK.
Summer 2020: ECA Degree Show (online), Edinburgh, UK.
2019
RELICS, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
Dig Deep, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
RestUnrest, Fire Station at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2017-18
I give you the end of this golden thread, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Printmakers, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Roles
2022-ongoing
Tutor in Art, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art.
Awards / Grants / Scholarships
Shortlisted artist – New Contemporaries open call (2025).
ECA PhD Scholarship – University of Edinburgh (2021-2024).
Visual Arts Project Grant – Hope Scott Trust (2021).
Practice Support Fund – Creative Edinburgh (2021).
In Print bursary, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne. (2017-2018).
Residencies
Jerwood X DCA Print Studio Residency, Dundee. (2025).
Interdisciplinary Residency (Print Place), Hospitalfield, Arbroath. (2021).
In Print residency, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne. (2017-2018).
AA2A Artist in Residence, Sunderland University. (2015-2016).
Talks / Workshops
Awkward Matter?, Weaving, Language Writing: Thinking and Practicing Research Creation conference, University of Angers, Angers, France. (2025).
Monoprint: An opening up of 'printness'?, IMPACT12 International Printmaking Conference, UWE, Bristol, UK. (2022).
Monoprinting Workshop, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, UK. (2021).
One-offs: Monotype Workshop, Newcastle University, UK. (2020).
Visiting Artist at Sunderland University, UK. (2016).
Publications
Monoprint: an opening up of ‘printness’? (2023) IMPACT Printmaking Journal,(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.54632/22.7.IMPJ6
Sadgrads Zine #1, 2020