Biography
Sadie Hennessy is an artist and ‘shenanigator’ who creates 2D and 3D collages, installations and live events .She caused headlines with her children’s tattoo parlour (‘My First Tattoo’ in Whitstable and Greenwich, and before that, a national hoo-hah with her ‘Gary Glitter Rock’. She likes to scratch at the veneer of civilised society, to find the darkness underneath, but uses humour to do so, even if it does come from the blacker end of the comic spectrum.
She has a BA Hons in Theatre (Dartington) and an MA in Fine Art (Central St. Martin’s). In 2010 she won the Jealous Graduate Art Prize. Work from her final MA Show was bought for the University of the Arts London collection, and her ‘Accident & Emergency’ prints are in the V&A print collection. In 2011-12 she was artist-in-residence in the printmaking department of Croydon College which culminated in a solo show at the Parfitt Gallery, and she has exhibited widely ever since. She was Screen Print Fellow at the Royal Academy 2016-2019.
She has just had two works selected for the prestigious Plymouth Open, including her video ‘How Soon Is Now’ made as part of her Margate Now commission in 2019 ‘The Last Things (Pre-Now, Post-Now, Now-Now)’.