
About Dex Hannon
Dex Hannon is a British interdisciplinary artist based in Blyth, North East England, originally from Manchester, working across contemporary abstract expressionist painting, digital art, moving image, sound and photography. His art lives in several private collections across the world. He has featured in books and magazines, both in the UK and abroad.
His practice is driven by transformation and reinvention, guided by a recurring, simple question: "What else could it be?" A single image can trigger a chain of works that migrate between media through repetition, revision and recontextualisation. Pieces move from image to film and back again: films built through stop-frame animation and digital manipulation are later examined frame by frame, with chosen compositions becoming standalone digital works, or the DNA for new paintings and music, each iteration adding a fresh texture. This cyclical method foregrounds process as both subject and philosophy, inviting viewers into a space where memory, perception and imagination stay in motion, and where no work is treated as final.
His work is held in private collections internationally and has featured in books and magazines in the UK and US. Career highlights include Best in Show at the International Art Folio Annual Awards (2020) and The Collectors Art Prize, Legends of Our Time Award (2025), with exhibitions and presentations across the UK and internationally, including London, Peru, Miami Art Week and the Venice Biennale. He has also been commissioned for public art projects, including Blythian Memes (2025) and Future Energy (2026). He is available for original artworks, commissions, public art, digital and moving-image projects, sound and visual collaborations, exhibition opportunities, artist talks and interviews.
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.




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.



Exhibitions
Common Stars: Art & Starlings - Redcar Palace
3 July - 5 September 2026
Our House Exhibition
June 2026
The Secret Salon, Safehouse, 137 Copeland Road, Peckham SE15 3SN
Rebirth Art Exhibition
Thursday, May 14 2026 • 7 PM
2nd floor, 15 Bermondsey Sq, London, UK
The PATH during the Venice Biennale 2026.
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, Italy
The Ripple Effect
29th May - Art East - London
Wow Northumberland
Ashington - Woodhorn Museum
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
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
Kraftstrom - B22
Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru
Headway Arts Open
Headway Arts Blyth
Refresh Shortlisted Show
5th Base Gallery London
Editions
The Gallery at Munro House, Leeds, UK
Gideon Conn Single Album Launch
Wringer and Mangle, London, UK
Photoplay #02
Brewdog Synaesthesia performance, London, UK
Synaesthesia Colours Sound Font Project
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
Urban Geometry
Huddersfield Train Station, Huddersfield, UK
Radical Geometry
Huddersfield Train Station, Huddersfield, UK
Prizes and Awards
2019
Film Selections
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