Tod Hanson

For other people named Todd Hanson, see Todd Hanson (disambiguation).

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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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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