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About Dex Hannon

Dex Hannon is a British multimedia artist whose work encompasses paint, digital art, film, sound, and photography. He is originally from Manchester and now lives and works in Blyth, Northumberland. His art lives in several private collections across the world. He has featured in books and magazines, both in the UK and abroad.

Dex Hannon’s 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 frequently collaborates 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.

Commissions

Future Energy

Future Energy is a 360° immersive film commissioned for the Blyth Festival of Energy, screened in the dedicated projection room at the Energy Central Learning Hub, March 2026.

The film was built from just three photographs of the Hub — two shot at 5am, one in the evening. Through layered animation and motion, the building's geometry is deconstructed and transformed, mirroring Blyth itself: a town not erasing its past but using it to build something new. The soundtrack, composed under the alter ego Skin Vehicles, opens with a found folk song celebrating Blyth's power stations in the 1960s, woven into modern electronic rhythm and techno.

The commission was made possible with support from Walk the Plank, Energy Central Campus, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Port of Blyth, the North East Combined Authority and Northumberland County Council.

Inside the Immersive experience | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved
Inside the Immersive experience | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved
Inside the Immersive experience | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved
Inside the Immersive experience | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved

Windtwisters Hoarding

Windtwisters - Remember to Evolve is a public artwork installed in Market Place, Blyth, commissioned as part of Blyth Celebrates, a project led by Northumberland County Council and the North East Combined Authority to transform the town into a celebration of arts and culture.

The work originated as an animated film, Blythian Memes, drawing on Blyth's landmarks and the imagery that defines the town's changing identity, from coal port to renewable energy hub. The wind turbine sits at its conceptual centre: a marker of that shift. The colour palette reflects Blyth's evolving character.

Conceptually, the piece mirrors the town's own process: just as Blyth reuses wind to generate new energy, Hannon reworks fragments of earlier films into new work, treating each piece not as an endpoint but as material for what comes next.

Windtwister | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved
Windtwister | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved
Image of Windtwister hoarding with wind turbine in background | © Dex Hannon - All rights reserved

Exhibitions

2026

Rebirth Art Exhibition

Thursday, May 14 2026 • 7 PM Get tickets

2nd floor, 15 Bermondsey Sq,  London, UK 

The PATH during the Venice Biennale 2026.

Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, Italy

The Secret Salon: goes to Margate

"Colour Me Blue"

2nd May Margate Sea Front next to Turner Gallery

Wow Northumberland

Ashington - Woodhorn Museum

2025

Blythian Memes

Republic Gallery,  Blyth, UK 

Miami Art Week

Aqua Art Miami, Collins Avenue, Florida,

Social Justice Art Network December 2025.

The Secret Salon: London Open

Hackney, London E15 2QR

ABSTRACTION 25 -

Line, Form, and Harmony -

Alliance Française

Cusco - Peru

AI for Humanity Spotlight,

GOSIM Hangzhou 2025, 

Hangzhou, Eastern Province, China

 

Wow Northumberland

Ashington - Woodhorn Museum

2024

The PATH during the Venice Biennale 2024.

Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, Italy

North Artists 

Northlight Arts - Leeds, UK

Wow Northumberland

Ashington - Woodhorn Museum

Spring Awakening

Fox Yard Studio Art Gallery, Suffolk

Headway Arts Open

Headway Arts Blyth

2022

Kraftstrom - B22

Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru

Headway Arts Open

Headway Arts Blyth

2019

Refresh Shortlisted Show

5th Base Gallery London 

2017

Editions

The Gallery at Munro House,  Leeds,  UK 

2016

Gideon Conn Single Album Launch

Wringer and Mangle,  London,  UK 

Photoplay #02

Brewdog Synaesthesia performance,  London,  UK

Synaesthesia Colours Sound Font Project

Lemonade Gallery,  London,  UK

2015

A Collection of Broken Toys

Kunsthuis Gallery,  York,  UK

CollabHub Celebration

Phipps Hall,  The University of Huddersfield,  Huddersfield,  UK

Painting vs Digital

Outlaws Yacht Club,  Leeds,  UK

Discrete Positions

Unit 9 Gallery,  Huddersfield,  UK 

A Collection of Broken Toys

Lawrence Batley Theatre,  Huddersfield,  UK

2014

Urban Geometry

Huddersfield Train Station,  Huddersfield,  UK

Radical Geometry

Huddersfield Train Station,  Huddersfield,  UK

Prizes and Awards

2025
The Collectors Art Prize, Legends of Our Time Award. 2025
2020
Best in Show, Art Folio Award

2019

Film Selections

2026
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Sofia World Film Festival,  Sofia, Bulgaria
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Folkestone Film Festival,  Manchester UK
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival,  Manchester UK
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Belgrade International Film Festival,  Serbia
The Truth is a Lie the Lie is the Truth, Art Giraffe International Film Festival, Nice France
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, New York Tri State,  Award Winner, New York USA
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Luleå International Film Festival,  Semi Finalist, Lulea, Sweden
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Filmzen International Film Competition,  Award Winner
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is a Truth, Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival, Award Winner, Bengal India.
Crazy Colours Dance Around my Head, Spinning Reels Awards, Award Winner, Bengal India.
2025
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Purple Sky Film Festival,  Hamburg
Crazy Colours in My Head, Stockholm City Film Festival
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Kerala Film Festival,  Award Winner
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, 24 Hours Film Challenge,  Award Winner, Bengal India.
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is The Truth, Cine Sepia Reels Carnival,  Award Winner, West Bengal, India.
The Truth is a Lie, The Lie is a Truth, Pegasus Film Awards, London

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