Tod Hanson (born 1963) is a London-based artist known for his large-scale graphic installations and public artworks.[1]

Career

Early graphic work

In the 1990s, Hanson worked on a series of large-scale graphic works for Greenpeace UK protests,[2][3] including a painting of Earth suspended over the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival. Hanson worked with Greenpeace to target Tesco by painting Fiasco, an exhibition truck highlighting the use of ozone destroying refrigeration systems, and to paint two excavators with Greenpeace graphics.[4][5]

In 1991, Hanson decorated both LSE bar and The Brain in Soho.

Permanent public artworks

Elliptical Switchback, installed in Haggerston railway station.

Hanson's 2004 Grainger Town, a bronze and Granite work that is a collaboration with Simon Wakinson, is permanently installed on Neville Street, near the Central Station, in Grainger Town, Newcastle upon Thyne.[6][7]

In 2009 Hanson's Elliptical Switchback, a tile mural commemorating Edmund Halley, was installed in the Haggerston railway station.[8][9][10] The piece was the first public artwork commissioned by London Overground.[11]

In 2015 he installed two public artworks on Balham Road in London, England.[12]

His 2016 painting Pool of London is permanently installed in the Hackney New School, London.[13][14]

Hanson's 2020 work Spectra is a public mural installed on the Centre Building of the London School of Economics campus.[15]

Temporary exhibitions

Hanson has had a number of Solo shows including the Jerwood Artists platform at Cell Project Space in 2006.[16][17]

In 2010 his temporary work Juggernaut Sunset was installed in the Landguard Fort as part of the festival Fleet: Art in the Haven Ports.[18][19]

In 2015 his site-specific work floor painting, which covers the entire floor, was installed at the historic Durbar Hall of the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Coastal Currents festival.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "A Q&A with... Tod Hanson, painter and graphic artist - a-n The Artists Information Company". a-n The Artists Information Company. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Club Event for Ancient Forests Campaign". Yorkshire Evening Post. 13 September 2002. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "TOD HANSON". todhanson.com.
  4. ↑ McQuiston, Liz (6 July 2004). Graphic Agitation 2: Social and Political Graphics in the Digital Age. Phaidon Press. p. 38. ISBN 9780714841779.
  5. ↑ Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney; Piccini, Angela (17 October 2013). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. OUP Oxford. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-19-166394-9.
  6. ↑ "Sculptural map celebrates city revamp". The Northern Echo.
  7. ↑ "Designers go to town". ChronicleLive. 9 December 2003.
  8. ↑ Green, Oliver (24 September 2019). London's Underground: The Story of the Tube. White Lion Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7112-4013-1.
  9. ↑ "Orange Art Squeezed: The Overground's Stalled Art Programme (London, UK)". 7 March 2018.
  10. ↑ Kenny, Lucy (18 March 2017). "The Elliptical Switchback, Tod Hanson". POPSUGAR Smart Living UK.
  11. ↑ "New public art at Hampstead Heath station". Times Series.
  12. ↑ "Artwork on Balham High Road – Tod Hanson". South London Life. 20 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Smith, Stephen (2 December 2010). Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-0-7481-2394-0.
  14. ↑ "TOD HANSON". todhanson.com.
  15. ↑ "LSE's Centre Building – Tod Hanson Commission". Contemporary Art Society.
  16. ↑ "Tod Hanson | Cell Project Space". cellprojects.org. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  17. ↑ Williams, Gilda. "Gilda Williams on Tod Hanson". www.artforum.com.
  18. ↑ Emms, Stephen (9 July 2010). "Fleet: Art on the Essex/Suffolk coast". The Guardian.
  19. ↑ Clarke, Andrew. "A summer of art along the historic coastline of East Anglia". East Anglian Daily Times.
  20. ↑ "A Q&A with... Tod Hanson, painter and graphic artist". The Artists Information Company.
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