Hanne Peeraer is a London-based Belgian artist from Italy. She is a graduate in Painting from the Royal College of Art, and her work has been exhibited in the UK, Belgium, France and Korea. In 2021, she was selected for New Contemporaries and received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. She is currently working towards an MASc at the London Interdisciplinary School in London, with a capstone project investigating the complex inferential pathways at play between perception and cognition.
Peeraer’s research focuses on the interplay between perception, physiological optics and the natural world, as well as the relation between form, matter, illusion and meaning-making. She approaches both the physical and life sciences from a place of intuition, developing the work with the aim of reaching people's instinctive connection to these spaces. In this way, her work provides an alternative way to reveal complex topics through the lens of magic, light, and play, using affective responses at its core.
Working with installation and materials like paper, plaster, perspex and jesmonite, she transforms seemingly simple materials into signifiers of knowledge and meaning, aiming to heighten perceptual awareness and encourage positive change through self-reflection. Peeraer's urge to create sprung from an exercise to heal from mourning in early life, and her practice today acts as a similar counterforce to the cynicism and resignation that comes up in the face of our world's uncertain future. She invites viewers to feel the urgency and call to action in a way that diagrams and data cannot.
education
2024 (expected) MASc Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods, The London Interdisciplinary School, London, UK.
2022 MA Painting, the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2020 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK.
selected shows
2024 The Second Body, Soho Revue, London, UK.
2023 Melt, Hypha Studios X Creative Land Trust, London, UK.
2022 Now 2022, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK.
2022 A Feast for the Eyes, studio/chapple, StART Fair Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
2022 Omitted References, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK.
2022 Royal College of Art Degree Show, London, UK. 2022.rca.ac.uk
2022 Hypnagogia, 20/22 La Poudrière, Brussels, Belgium.
2022 Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK. blueshopcottage.com
2022 Meet Me By The River, Purslane Gallery, UK. purslane.co.uk
2022 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, and Firstsite, Colchester, UK. and online at platform.newcontemporaries.org.uk
2021 Les Danses Nocturnes, eastcontemporary, Spread Museum Entrevaux, France.
2021 Raphael: Emerging artists respond, The British Museum, London, UK.
2021 The Ceiling with a Tranquil Eye, 24 Cork Street Gallery, London, UK.
2020 Penultimatum, The Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
2019 GIFC & Velvet Ropes London, House of Vans, London, UK.
2019 Reimagine - The Collection Reinterpreted, Orleans House Gallery, London, UK.
2018 Stock Up On Air, Nunnery Gallery at Bow Arts, London, UK.
grants, awards & prizes
2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Grant for MA Painting year 2, the Royal College of Art), Quebec, Canada.
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, London, UK.