About

Bio

Hattie Quigley (b.2002) is a Brighton- based painter working in large scale, energetic and highly saturated oil paintings. Hattie received her BA Painting Degree at Edinburgh College of Art in 2025, going on to become Artist in Residence at Loretto Boarding School in Edinburgh until 2026. She participated in the RBA Rising Stars (May 2025, Mayfair) after a solo exhibition at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh(March 2025). Her degree show pieces were the industry judge winner for Fine Art in the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, as well as being awarded the JM Finn Graduate Artist Award at the Affordable Art Fair 2025. Recently, Hattie participated in Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, running a workshop, as well as a group show in London. Hattie has a solo show with Refusès in London starting from the 5th of September running through to October. She is set to join the MA painting programme at the Royal College of Art in September 2026, and has received the Ali H Alkazzi full Scholarship award.

Artist statement

My artistic practice is interested in extremes. Expansive canvases act as containers for emotion — feminine desire, hunger, grief, euphoria; exploring what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society. Beginning with abstract pours, strokes and smears, figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent scenes of intimacy and excess. I see painting as a way of digesting the lived experience and insisting on, now more importantly than ever, the material richness of the body. The buttery, deliciousness of paint, flesh and food are bound together in emotional, pulsing marks that dance around the histories and language of painting - from the Baroque to Abstract Expressionism to instagram culture. The paintings are a celebration of bodies in all their forms while examining the tension between extravagance and restraint that we all adhere to be accepted by society. 

Food is a common thread through which I explore wider themes of gender, erotic desire, power, capitalism, and consumerism — all dancing around what painting is in its very essence.