About

Hattie Quigley (b. 2002) is a London-based painter working in large-scale, energetic and highly saturated oil paintings. She 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 RBA Rising Stars (May 2025, Mayfair) following a solo exhibition at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh (March 2025). Her degree show pieces won the Fine Art industry judge award at the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, and she received the JM Finn Graduate Artist Award at the Affordable Art Fair 2025. She has since participated in Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, running a workshop, and a group show in London. Hattie has a solo show with Refusés in London from 5 September through October, and joins the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art in September 2026, having received the Ali H Alkazzi Full Scholarship.

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 lived experience, insisting on 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. Food is a common thread through which I explore wider themes of gender, consumption, power and consumerism.