Hannah Caprice
Photo courtesy Ara Sarafian
Hannah Caprice is a Canadian–Australian emerging artist with Indo-Trinidadian and Slavic heritage. She explores themes such as memory, identity, connection with others and the search for self, and she expresses this using magical realism. As her practice develops, concern for the environment and the future for life on a post-human Earth are beginning to emerge in her work.
Her experiences as a cross-cultural kid often creep their way into her work. She observes a strange beauty in being an adaptable misfit: belonging everywhere and nowhere; feeling fragmented and whole all at once.
While she occasionally draws on myth, folklore and literature, she strives to create work that is open and playful, provoking viewers to contemplate their own meanings.
Memory and identity are fluid in nature, so viewers are invited to return to her work over time — to perceive it differently and discover new information or transformed features. This is an invitation for reflection and introspection and a subtle reminder that change is constant.
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Education
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, RMIT, Australia
2011 Master of Teaching Secondary, University of Newcastle, Australia
2006 Bachelor of English Literature, University of Waterloo, Canada
Exhibitions
2023 On the Edge: Species at Risk, Lion Gate Lodge, The Royal Botanic
Garden Sydney, NSW (upcoming)
2022 National Capital Art Prize Exhibition - Sustainability Category,
Fitter's Workshop, Canberra, ACT
Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby,
NSW
2021 Northern Beaches Artists' Book Award Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
Entrancing Others, Group exhibition curated by Rona Green,
Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC
OnPaper Contest, online participant, Barcelona, Spain
InkMasters Print Exhibition, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, QLD
Megalo Intaglio Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra,
ACT
Annual RMIT Print Auction, RMIT Virtual Event, Melbourne, VIC
Peebles Print Prize, Queenscliff Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
ITB & RMIT Seni Grafis Hari Ini (Printmaking Today), Institut
Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine,
VIC
2020 Editions 20, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, VIC
Libris Awards: The Australian Artists' Book Prize, Artspace
Mackay, Mackay, QLD
Annual RMIT Print Auction, RMIT Virtual Event, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Artists' Book Showcase curated by Jazmina Cininas, RMIT Rey Area, Melbourne, VIC
Fifty Squared Art Prize Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery,
Melbourne, VIC
Manly Library Artists' Book Award Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
Annual RMIT Print Auction, RMIT, Building 49, Melbourne, VIC
RMIT School of Art 2019 Graduating Third Year BAFA Exhibition,
Melbourne, VIC
2018 Australian Print Triennial Emerging Artists’ Exhibition, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC
Annual RMIT Print Auction, RMIT Building 49, Melbourne, VIC
Awards, Acquisitions, Grants and Residencies
2022 National Capital Art Prize - Sustainability Category,
Canberra, ACT - highly commended
Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre,
Hornsby, NSW - highly commended
2021 Northern Beaches Artists' Book Award Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
- highly commended
Experimental Print Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Castlemaine
Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC - winner
2020 Baldessin Studio Sponsored Residency, St. Andrews, VIC
National Assistance Program for the Arts, Sidney Myer Fund
Australian Print Workshop: APW Collie Print Trust Scholarship
for Emerging Victorian Printmakers, Melbourne, VIC
(postponed to 2021)
2019 Manly Library Artists' Book Award, Sydney, NSW - acquired
Professional Experience
2022 Workshop Instructor, Re-Assemble Art Education Conference,
Art Education Victoria/RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
2022 Art Technician, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne, VIC
2020 Intern - Australian Galleries (Works on Paper), Melbourne, VIC
2015/16 Tour Guide at Keith Murdoch Gallery and World of the Book, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Collections
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
Baldessin Studio and Press, St Andrews, VIC
RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Curtin University, WA
University of Southern Queensland, QLD
Charles Sturt University, NSW
Vilnius Academy of the Arts, Lithuania
Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Manly Library, Sydney NSW