About

Bio

Hattie Quigley (b.2002)is a visual artist whose practice consists of large scale, energetic and highly saturated oil paintings. Now based in Brighton, 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. Recent and upcoming projects include; solo exhibition with Refusés (September, 2026), AAF Hong Kong (May, 2026), solo exhibition at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh (March 2025); and participation in RBA Rising Stars (May 2025, Mayfair). She was awarded the JM Finn Graduate Artist Award at the Affordable Art Fair 2025 and named an industry judge winner for Fine Art in the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. She is set to join the MA painting programme at the Royal College of Art in September 2026.

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.