Artist Painter & Printmaker
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
About the artist
 
 
 
 
   
   

Public collections

Amsterdam Arts Council
Amsterdam Medical Centre
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
British Museum Prints & Drawings Collection, London
Brooklyn Art Library, New York, U.S.A.
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Frans Masereel Center, Belgium
Guandong Fine Art Museum, Canton, PR of China
Merrill Lynch, London
Mitsokoshi Ltd,London
Museum of Contemporary Engraving, Alijo, Portugal
National Art Library collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum
New Hall, Cambridge
Rabo Bank, London
Risk Publications, London
Sakima Art Museum, Okima
University of Aberystwyth Print Collection
University of Wales Print Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum Print collection
Paintings in Hospitals, London
Private Collections In the UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Australia

 

Awards

 

2011  The Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Purchase Award

2011  First prize of Tabernacle Art Competition Feeling, MOMA Wales

          Shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition and Exhibition
          who acquired 'Selfportrait with exploding chest' for their permanent collection

2008  Residency Frans Masereel Center, Belgium

2006  Aberystwyth, University of Wales Purchase Prize,  Originals 06, London

2003  Presse Papier Award, Biennale Int. d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2011 Mama, mama the bear is loose, Quest 21, Abele/Watou, Belgium;

2010 Sticks & Stones, University gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne;
        Mama mama, the bear is loose, Quest 21, Brussel; Biting the bullet, Millenium Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall;
        Sweet ‘n’ Low, Viktor Wynd Fine Art inc. London;

2009 Back to Basics, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada

2008 The Weight of Smoke,  Galerie de Buytensael, Arnhem; The Weight of Smoke, East West Gallery, London;
        Down the Rabbithole, University of Aberystwyth Gallery, Aberystwyth

2007  The Weight of Smoke, De Queeste Art, Watou; The Weight of Smoke, University of Brussels Gallery, Brussel;

2006  La Petite Mort,  Stephanie Burns Fine Art,Canberra;  Intimate Conversations, Artonomy Fine Art, Truro 

2005  La Petite Mort,19 etchings, East West Gallery, London;; La Petite Mort, De Queeste Kunstkamers, Watou

2004  Shouts & Whispers, Stephanie Burns Gallery, Canberra; Silence is easy, De Queeste Kunstkamers, Watou 

2003  You said you loved me, RM Art, Essen; Sometimes I dream about reality,  East West Gallery, London; 

2001  Incomplete Tales, Erasmus Gallery, Rotterdam; All of Me,  East West Gallery, London 

2000  Crossing Borders, Gallery at Royal Crescent, Edinburgh   

1999  Close to the Bone, New Hall, Cambridge; Burying the Hatchet, the Millinery Works, London 

1996  Collyer Bristow Gallery, London  1994  Galerie Reisel, Rotterdam  

 1988  Last Gallery, London  1986  Art Space Gallery, London 

1983  Clare Hall, Cambridge  1982  Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2010  10-10-10, De Buytensael, Arnhem; The Art of Giving, Saatchi Gallery, London; Multiplied Art Fair, Christie's South Kensington, London; 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London; Sixth Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (BIMPE VI), Canada, touring; RA Summer Exhibition, London; Inspiration, C & K College, London; Art London, with Eyestorm and Millenium Gallery; Off the Wall, Mini Print show, Bankside Gallery, London; London Original Print Fair (LOPF), with Eyestorm, RA of Arts, London; The House of Fairy tales, The Millenium Gallery, St. Ives;   The House of Fairy tales, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn and Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury;   St. David¹s Hall Printmaking Exhinbition, Cardiff; The London Group Members’ Annual Exhibition, The Cello Factory, London; North Lincolnshire National Print Open, The Ropewalk, North Lincolnshire;

2009  Art London, Goldfish Gallery, London ; Glasgow Art Fair, with Edgar Modern; LOPF with Bankside gallery, London; Metamorphoses, 4th Biennale de l’estampes de Saint Maur; Black on White, Artefact Gallery, London; 1984, Kowalsky Gallery, London; Biennale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois Rivieres, Quebec; Drie Invalshoeken; Hanselaar,  Enk de Kramer, Wouter Pype  at De Queeste, Watou

2008  Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London; Intaglio, St. David’s Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff; Originals 08, Mall Galleries, London; Gelre Beurs, Arnhem; Prints Tokyo 2007; Cont. European & African Prints, RaMoMa, Nairobi; with The LG, Mauger Modern Art, Bath; with Artichoke Printmakers, Clifford Chance, London; with Laurence Fuller, Choir of Angels, voice-over drawings on You-Tube;  Original Print Fair, London; Print Open 08, Ropewalk Contemporary, Barton upon Humber;Summer in the city, Bankside Gallery, London; Galerie Churchill, Wegimont Culture, Liege, Be, The Threadneedle Figurative Prize, Mall Galleries, London; London Group annual, Menier Gallery, London; Will it snow for Christmas, Wall, London; Discerning Eye, invited artist, Mall Galleries, London; X Biennal Internacional de Grabado, Caixanova, Spain; The mini picture show, Bankside gallery, London; Winter show, Goldfish Gallery, Penzanze.

2007  Originals 07, Mall Galleries, London; Lithography & Woodcuts, Walk Gallery, London; Bienniale Int.ernationale de Gravure 07, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium;  London Group at Deutsche Bank, London; Beyond the Narrative, 5 figurative painters; Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London; Blauwdruk van een menszijn,De Steiger, Menen, Be; Shortlisted Sovereign European Art Prize 2007, Club Row, London; Shortlisted Celeste Art Prize 2007; Bienale Int. de Gravura de Douro, Portugal; Eyeplay, Bankside Gallery, London; Things which go bump in the night, 20/21 Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincs; Bridge Art Fair, London; London Group Open L, Menier Gallery, London;A fine line, Artonomy Finr Art, Truro; Heym Art  wo man haengt, Rathausgalerie Hirschberg, Germany

2006  Artists & Prints, Artonomy Fine Art, Truro; Originals 06,  Mall Galleries London; The London Group Annual, Bankside Gallery, London; RE Annual, Bankside Gallery, London; Le Reveil Figuratif, La Renaissance Mairie, Hondschoote (Fr) and Beauvoorde, (Be); Still lives, Selfportraits, Artonomy Fine Art, Truro; R.A. Summershow, London (2002-2006); Discerning Eye, invited artist, Mall Galleries London; MAAPS Printmaking Biennial 2006/07 Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Uni., Halifax, Canada; Great Hall, OCAD, Toronto; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto; The Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul;  Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

2005  Uncanny Tales touring 2005-2007 : Scarborough Gallery, Scarborough; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Wrexham Art Gallery, Cultural Centre Ypres, Belgium; Jersey Arts Centre, St. Helier; Great Sutton Street, London; Black Swan Arts, Frome, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Rugby Art Gallery; Babylon Art Gallery, Ely; Print International, Memorial Gallery, Yale college, Wrexham; touring The Haven Gallery, Boston; Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury; Biennale Int. de Gravure, Cabinet des Estampes de la Ville de Liege, Belgium; Biennale Int. d’ estampe Cont. de Trois-Rivieres, Canada; Unladylike,  East West Gallery, London; Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London; 200 years European Art, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra

2004  Originals 04,, Mall Galleries, London; RE Annual, Bankside Gallery, London; Christmas show, East West Gallery, London  2003  Contemporary British Art, The Millinery Works, London; National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London; Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres; Showcase, East West Gallery, London; Print International, Yale College, touring; Prizewinners, East West Gallery, London; Sons & Mothers, Collins Gallery, Glasgow; Uncanny Tales, Galerie de Buytensael, Arnhem, NL 2002  40x40 Cont. British Art, The Millinery Works, London;Young Masters Prints, Atlanta, USA; National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London; FWA, Art, Age & Gender, Orleans House, London ; Grafiek Nu,  Biennale Nederlandse Grafische Kunst, Singer Museum, Laren, NL

2000  Modern & Cont. British Art, The Millinery Works, London; Art on Paper Fair, RCA, London; Englische Kunst, Galerie Thomas Hettlage, Munich; Int. Small Print Biennale, Morley Gallery, London; Bearing Up, East West Gallery,

1999   Pictures to Live With, The Millinery Works, London; BCMA, The Mall Galleries, London; Secret Lives, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham; Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia; Small & Sexy, East West Gallery, London 1998  Women on Men, Touring to Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Bodelwyddan Castle and Denbighshire School of Art Gallery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Undercurrents, Woodlands Art Gallery, London; MWA, Women, Work and Money, KPBG, London 1997 Unquiet Voices, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, Doncaster; 7 Dutch Artists,The Royal Netherlands Embassy, London; Graffik 97, Printmakers, Scunthorpe Museum and Art Gallery; Small Objects of Desire, East West Gallery, London 1996  The Human Form, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; The Child Within, East West Gallery, London 1995  Life's a Beach, City Gall., Leicester; Identity, Towner Art Gall., Eastbourne;  Experiments, S.W.T.U., Chongqing 1994  Ask the Poets, Knapp Gallery, London;  Contemporary Portrait Society, London; Women Light Up The Night, Berlin 1993  Cooling Gallery, London; Expressionist Paintings S.W.T. U, Chongqing  1992  Eva Jekel Gallery, London; Cooling Gallery, London;  1991  British Month, Roy Miles Gallery, London; Galerie Clairfontaine, Luxembourg  1990  British Painters, Mall Galleries, London; Art for China, Smith Gallery, London 1989  Links of Affinity, Knapp Gallery, London and Glasgow Arts Club, Glasgow; Berkeley Square Gallery, London

 

Bibliography

2009  Printmakers Secrets, Anthony Dyson, May 2009, Catalogue RE Annual 2009: Catalogue Metamorphoses, 4th Biennale de l’estampes de Saint Maur; Catalogue Printmaking Int. Wrexham; Catalogue Bienale int. de l’estampes de Trois Rivieres; Practical Printmaking, Colin Gale; Hybrid Prints, Megan Fishpool

2008 Close-up, Kunst & Antiek journaal, Collect, Feb 2008; Marcelle Hanselaar, Select, Tableau Fine Art,  Feb. 2008; The London Group, Metrolife, 21/4/08;Marcelle Hanselaar, by Liam Hanley, Galleries, May ‘08; Comptoir d’estampes au churchill, Wegimont Culture no. 236; Intaglio Printmaking, A&C Black; Mychael Barratt; Catalogue The London Group 95th Anniversity show, Nov 08; Catalogue Down the Rabbit hole, Aberystwyth University, Oct. 08; Thumbnails, Galleries Dec. 08; Down the Rabbit hole, Bankside Gallery Newsletter, Nov 08; Catalogue X Biennal Internacional de Grabado, Caixanova 08; Vrouw in de Kunst, FMF, Actief, 4/2008

2007 Goddess of Suburbia, Etchings at the Walk Gallery,The Jackdaw, 03/07; Catalogue Sovereign European Art Prize 2007; Catalogue Fete de la Gravure, 6th Biennale Int. de la Gravure, Liege; Catalogue Celeste Art Prize; Receiving the inheritance, Printmaking Today, vol.16 no.1/07; Catalogue  04 Bienal 2007 internacional de gravura Douro: Catalogue to The London Group Open; Easelwords; The Jackdaw, No 73. Nov 2007,

2006  Into the dark side of women, The Independent, 4/4/06; La Petite Mort, Le Reveil Figurativ, Pillowtalk, Veduta, Spring 06; Intimate conversations, The St. Ives Times & Echo, 19/5/06, Marcelle Hanselaar at Artonomy by Peter Davies; Images touch a raw nerve in exploring sexuality, Canberra Times,26/3/06; Galleries, Canberra, 5/06; Rare glimpses of time-honoured artists, Collector,7/06  Uncanny Tales, Frome,The Art Newspaper, What’s on, U.K., 6/06; Printmaking Handbook, Etching, by Colin Gale; Catalogue L’image, Le Reveil Figuratif, 7/06; Uncanny Tales with a twist, Hull Advertiser, 6/7/06; 15/5/06 top 5 galleries, Uncanny Tales, The Knowledge, The Times, 7/7/06; Behind closed doors, artist profile by Carole Hensher, Printmaking Today vol15 no 3 ’06; Catalogue AAF, London; Catalogue MAAPS, 1rst Print Biennale; Catalogue Discerning Eye, London; Brush Strokes, Evening Telegraph, 27/10/06; Artist to talk about her work, Rugby Advertiser, 5/10/06;The Uncanny goes on display, Rugby Observer, 21/9/06; Gallery shows light and dark shades of Life, Evening Telegraph, 15/9/ 06; Acclaimed artists’ tour hits Rugby, Rugby Advertiser,14/9/06; Boldness & Emotion, an interview with Marcelle Hanselaar, Flashfilm magazine, 11/06

2005  Catalogue 5th Biennale de Gravure, Liege; Catalogue Wrexham Print International; CatalogueThe London Group, Bankside Gallery, London; Darkly dreaming, Dreaming, Hull Daily Mail, 22/1/05; Lunchtime talk by top artirst, Evening News, 23/2/05; Preview Uncanny Tales, The Guardian, 30/4/05; The Guardian Guide: Pick of the week, Uncanny Tales, Swansea, 23/4/05; Uncanny Tales, Platform Summer 05; Galleries, Thumbnails La Petite Mort; Preview, Best of the month: Dutch etchings, La Petite Mort, 7/05,The Hill; Catalogue Biennale de Trois-Rivieres; RE Directory of Prints; Catalogue RE Annual, Bankside Gallery, London; Uncanny Tales, Platform, Summer 05; Reach, Uncanny Tales, Summer ‘05; Catalogue Unladylike, East West Gallery, London; Uncanny Tales in Ieper, Ticket, 10/05; La Petite Mort, Nieuwe Etsen; Oct. issue Veduta; Catalogue Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London; Veduta, Autumn 05; Collision of Dreams & Nightmares, EP 17/6/05; Into the dark side of women, The Independent, 4/4/05

2004  Strong stuff not for the romantic at heart, Canberra Times 16/2/04; Heroes & Villains, Printmaking Today, Autumn 04; De ondeugende wereld van Marcelle Hanselaar,Ticket, 10/04, no.105; Het zachte vlees, A.A.A. no. 356, 11/04; Catalogue Silence is easy; Catalogue Uncanny Tales, FWA; Uncanny Tales, Preview, Printmaking Today, Winter 04 2003  Catalogue Contemporary British Art; Sight Specific, What’s on in London 29/1/03; Catalogus Grafiek Nu 10, Biennale Nederlandse Grafische Kunst, Kunst aus London, Westdeutsche Allgemeine, 15/2/03; Provokante Pinselstriche, NRZ, Essen, 19/2/03; Catalogue New Hall Art Collection, 3rd ed., Cambridge; Hanselaar takes a bow, Printmaking Today, Spring 03; Catalogue to Wrexham Print International; Catalogue Biennale Internationale d’estampe cont. de Trois – Rivieres; La Biennale internationale d’estampe prend son envol, Le Nouvelliste, 16/7/03; Marcelle stoot door, Stan Huygens Journaal, DeTelegraaf, 4/6/03; Catalogue Sons & Mothers, List Magazine, 6/03; Catalogue Sometimes I dream about reality, text Laura Gascoigne; Marcelle Hanselaar by Jilly Szaybo, Galleries 9/03; Expression of restraint, Morgan Falconer, What’s On in London, 10/9/03; Reflections of an artist’s dream, Kensington Times, 24/9/03; Catalogue Uncanny Tales, Arnhem, Holland; Mensen, maskers en de beest erachter, Hoog en Laag, 8/10/03; Uncanny Tales, Er hangt iets dreigends in de lucht, De Gelderlander, 7/10/03; Uncanny Tales, groepexpositie, Tableau Fine Arts Magazine nr.5, 11/03; ‘ Griezelige Verhalen, Opzij, 11/03; Uncanny Tales, Contemporary , issue 74; Verontrustende verhalen, Art –NL 5/03 2002  Catalogue Art, Age & Gender  2001  Englische Figurative malerei in der Galerie Hettlage, Munchen Merkur16/7/01; Das sprechen- de Antlitz der Scheherazade, Sud Deutsche Zeitung,15/7/01; Erasmus Magazine Incomplete tales of Remarkable Journeys, 11/01; Studium Generale, Marcelle Hanselaar, Galerie Erasmus, 12/01; Catalogue All of Me, text by Morgan Falconer; Don’t Miss, Galleries, 11/ 01; The Jackdaw, 11/01  2000  Catalogue  Modern & Contemporary British Art, The Millinery Works, London

1999  Catalogue Pictures to live with, The Millinery Works, London; Artist Directory of Great Britain, David Buckman; The Artists Eye, Arts Review, 9/99; Artist Opens Floodgate of Memory, Evening News 22/4/99; Catalogue Burying the Hatchet, The Millinery Works, London; The Hermit who Turned, Morgan Falconer, Highbury & Islington Express 8/10/99; Burying the Hatchet, Angel 10/99; Critics Choice, John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph 17/10/99 1998/96  Catalogue Woman on Man / Man on Woman, Susan Wilson, 97/98; Catalogue Undercurrents ‘98; Jane Czyzselska, Unquiet Voices, Artist Newsletter 9/97; Privates on Parade, The Lawyer Magazine, 10/96 1994  Catalogue to the exhibition, Galerie Reisel, Rotterdam 1992/93  Sister Wendy Beckett, On Art and the Sacred, Rider Books, London ’92; Catalogue British Month, Roy Miles Gallery, ‘91; Sister Wendy Beckett, The Spiritual in Contemporary Art, The Journey, ‘90; Catalogue Art for China  1989  Catalogue Links of Affinity, Dutch Contemporary Art in Britain, Mary Rose Beaumont, Knapp Gallery, Regent's College, London; Net als de Koningin, Avenue, 5/89; William & Mary vieringen, Nederlandse kunstenaars aan bod, Marcella van der Wiel, De Telegraaf, 17/6/89; Britse Nederlanders exposeren in London, Haye Thomas, Haagse Courant,17/7/89; Links of Affinity, Dutch Contemporary Art in Britain, The Times, 20/7/89; Expositie Engelse Hollanders, Hieke Jippes, NRC Handelsblad, 21/7/89; Going Dutch, Giles Auty, The Spectator, 1/7/89; Dutch Contemporary Art in Britain, Jane Norrie, Arts Review, 7/89; Banden van verwantschap, Nederlandse Kunst spreekt in Engeland een woordje mee, Nanke Kramer, Trouw, 3/7/89;  Nederlandse kunstenaars in Groot-Brittannie, Tableau, Summer ’89 1986/82  Summer Exhibition, Max Wykes-Joyce, Arts Review, 9/5/86 An interview with Marcelle Hanselaar, Events with a Dutch touch, Dutch Touch, 10/85; Kunst vanuit het materiaal in beelden en schilderijen, Alkmaarse Courant, 6/5/82; Bulletin Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 5/82