Premio Combat Prize

Memory moves and has a rhythm all of its own. Even in the stillness, the pulse of rhythm is ever present, a murmur of breath in the darkness. Recurrence and motion are entangled in a dialectical dance, always unfolding, always becoming. A motive force and vestigial trace, recollection and remembrance look not just back but forward, tracing and retracing a path between the present and the past. This temporal oscillation describes a mode of motion, reprising that which is never the same. Memory rushes forth toward a destination that is always out of reach, not in motion but motion itself. Repetition, return and difference, these are the elements that comprise the transient rhythm of recollection, imperfect translations of the infinite.
Hannah Quinlivan is a PhD candidate at the School of Art, The Australian National University. Her drawing practice spans multiple media, extending into two, three and four dimensions. Quinlivan is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne and .M Contemporary, Sydney. In 2013 and 2014, she held solo exhibitions in Singapore, Fukuoka, Sydney, Melbourne and Berlin. Quinlivan was awarded the Cox Prize for Sculpture in 2013 and the lucrative Art at the Heart Residency Award in 2014. In 2014, she founded the Canberra Mentorship Prize.