Dex Hannon

British Multimedia Artist, originally from Manchester now based in the North East. In 2025, he won the Collectors' Art Prize - Legends of Our Time Award. In 2020, he won best in show for the International Art Folio 2020 Annual award. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Refresh Art Prize 2019.

His work encompasses paint, digital art, film, sound, and photography. His practice is an exploration of transformation and reinvention. At its core is a guiding question: “What else could it be?” A single frame can ignite an entire cascade of creation, a painting, a film or a digital work, each one carrying within it the potential for the next. In this recursive approach, the boundaries between mediums dissolve. Paintings give rise to films, films fracture into digital works, and digital interventions in turn inspire new material explorations. Nothing is ever final. Each work functions simultaneously as culmination and inception, a node within an expanding network of possibility.

Hannon works across painting, film and digital media, frequently collaborating with alter egos such as Skin Vehicles to expand the dialogue between sound, image and motion. The practice is not constrained by the conventions of medium, chronology or narrative. Instead, it embraces instability, evolution, chance and the unpredictable trajectories of artistic experimentation.

The work invites the viewer into a space where memory, perception and imagination intersect. Scale, materiality and temporal shift become tools for reflection, while the recursive methodology challenges assumptions about originality, finality and authorship. Hannon’s oeuvre is less concerned with depiction than with enactment, offering a lens through which audiences can reconsider not only what art is but what it might catalyse in thought and experience.

The Secret Salon: London Open 2025

ABSTRACTION 25 - Line, Form, and Harmony - Alliance Française Cusco - Peru 2025

Blythian Memes - Republic gallery: Solo Show - 2025

Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 2025

The Path - Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, during the Venice Biennale 2024

Abstracts Northlight Arts - Leeds 2024

Headway Arts Open 2024

Spring Awakening - Fox Yard Studio Art Gallery 2024

Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 2024

Kraftstrom - B22 - November 22 at the Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru 2024