I Remember the Mirage

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Alison Hand

I Remember the Mirage

This exhibition of paintings by Alison Hand, brings together her artworks which explore time, illusion, hallucination, beliefs, and historical and imaginary landscapes. Some of the works allude to how time is experienced in dreams, layering recurring images, multiple moons and reflections, strange characters, and the historical and contemporary, to create impossible and surreal landscapes. Darkness becomes a veil through which things are hidden and revealed.

17/09/2026 - 30/10/2026

About this exhibition

Other paintings in the exhibition, use the séance as a metaphor for belief systems, and themes of illusion, fakery, credulity, and the other-worldly power of the woman-medium. Hand overlays red and blue to create an optical disturbance, with pattern becoming hyperactive and suggesting hallucination. Alongside these, the mirror paintings depict mirrors that don’t reflect you, or when tilted reflect a 17th century night sky, moving backwards through time. The mirror is a strange object which is both real and unreal, and relates to the illusion of painting itself.

 

 

Alison Hand is a painter and writer with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Hand was recently the Artist in Residence for Kings College London Philosophy Department on the Dreams and Wakeful Consciousness Research Project. Forthcoming exhibitions include a major duo show in London Victoria with Julian Wild in June 2026.

Hand is currently working with Bloomsbury Publishers on a major essay on Drawing in Contemporary Art, and has recently published two books with DK Penguin Random House.

Hand is BA Fine Art Programme Leader at Art Academy London, and co-director of Cement Studios and Art School in Newhaven.

 

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