Miriam Hancill is an artist and practice-based PhD researcher. She lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Miriam's practice thematises the generative nature of the printmaker’s studio, re-contextualising its apparatus and processes from mechanical means of technical mastery to central elements in the artist’s decision-making process. It makes explicit the media, tools, decisions and actions of the printmaker within the workshop setting, highlighting the labour and tactile nature of practical application.
Education
Exhibitions
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017-18
Residencies
Talks/Workshops
Publications
Miriam's practice thematises the generative nature of the printmaker’s studio, re-contextualising its apparatus and processes from mechanical means of technical mastery to central elements in the artist’s decision-making process. It makes explicit the media, tools, decisions and actions of the printmaker within the workshop setting, highlighting the labour and tactile nature of practical application.
Education
2021-2025, PhD Art (by practice), Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2018-2020, MFA Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2011-2015, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University, UK
2010-2011, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University of Sunderland, UK
Exhibitions
2024
PhD Showcase 2024, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
2023
peripheral acts, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, UK.
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
Residencies
November 2021- Interdisciplinary Residency (Print Place), Hospitalfield, Arbroath
October 2017-April 2018, In Print Bursary Holder, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne
October 2015-June 2016, AA2A Artist in Residence, Sunderland University
Talks/Workshops
2022, Monoprint: An opening up of 'printness'?, IMPACT12 International Printmaking Conference, UWE, Bristol, UK.
2021, Monoprinting Workshop, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2020, One-offs: Monotype Workshop, Newcastle University, UK
2016, Visiting Artist at Sunderland University, UK.
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