About

Bio

Hattie Quigley is a visual artist whose practice consists of large scale, energetic and highly saturated oil paintings, as well as sculpture and installation. Originating from Brighton and now residing in Edinburgh, Hattie has a BA(Hons) Painting Degree at Edinburgh College of Art. Her solo show ‘Gorge!’ was at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh, in 2025 and she is currently part of The Cube Studio programme by Outerspaces and Artist in Residence at Loretto Boarding School.

Artist statement

My current practice consists of large-scale paintings that act as containers for emotion —feminine desire, hunger, grief, euphoria — too unruly to speak plainly. Figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent scenes of intimacy and excess, their bodies caught between celebration and collapse. These are places where pleasure is not tamed, where women and other bodies push against the narrow confines of acceptability, claiming the right to feel, want, gorge, and live without apology.

I explore what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society - how feminine desire is shaped: the ways it is marketed, policed, commodified, yet still erupts in forms that resist containment. I am drawn to the tension between control and abandon, between the moment of holding back and the moment of giving in. Paint itself becomes food, flesh, light, atmosphere — a sensuous, volatile substance that records touch and pressure. Food is a common thread through which I explore wider themes of erotic desire, power, obsession, capitalism, and consumerism — all dancing around what painting is in its very essence.