Kim Hannigan
- BUNNY
Absorbing historian Antonia Fraser’s biographical tales of a child-princess in “Marie Antoinette” and adding her own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Kim Annabella broaches new terrain with “Petit Trianon.”
“Baroque Sumptuousness” might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Kim Annabella shall find familiar preoccupations – Dreamy girls lounging in repose in nature, surrounded by animals & sugary confections – in these new paintings, transposed to greener pastures.
Kim Hannigan
Never reticent to deliver her work with layers of reference that range from Baroque & Gothic Revivalist landscape and Eighteenth century French court painting to Eighties post-punk music, in her latest paintings Kim Annabella combines the extravagance and frivolity of a popular royal with her own artistic vision as ground from which to make her carefully executed leaps into a fantasy world based on the teenaged queen with as many detractors as admirers.
Kim holds an honours BA in the History of Art from UCD and she has worked in Archaeology since leaving University.
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