NUMBER ONE FAN HANNAH WILSON
Steve Turner is pleased to present Number One Fan, a solo exhibition by Glasgow-based Hannah Wilson that features new paintings which depict Rupert Pupkin and Jerry Langford, the two main male characters in King of Comedy, the dark satirical film which Martin Scorsese directed in 1982. Wilson’s paintings do not precisely depict the characters as they appear in the film. There are several steps, first a screenshot, then a drawing and finally the painting. In this way, Wilson endeavors to capture something essential about the characters as they continue their exploration of masculinity by focusing on failure.
Hannah Wilson (born 1995, Milton Keynes, England) earned a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London (2016) and an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art (2022). They have had solo exhibitions at Bim Bam, Paris (2023); Grove Gallery, London (2023) and Moosey Gallery, Norwich (2021) and have included work in thirty different group exhibitions in the United Kingdom since 2015.