Andrea Hasler

Education

She received her Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom in 2002 and currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Career

Hasler"s wax and mixed media sculptures are characterized by a tension between attraction and repulsion, and highly influenced by artists John Isaacs, Berlinde De Bruyckere and Louise Bourgeois. Her 2013 solo exhibition Burdens of Excess re-fashioned high-end designer accessories into bulging globs of pink wax studded with brand-name zipper pulls, insignias, straps and handles. This work was filmed by British Broadcasting Corporation for The Culture Show.

Hasler also participated in the 3-Doctorate Foundation Artist Residency in the mountain town of Verbier, Switzerland creating two site-specific sculptures for the exhibition MUTATIONS: Contemporary Sculpture in Context, curated by Paul Goodwin.

Hasler"s solo exhibitions include New Greenham Arts, Newbury, United Kingdom. GUSFORD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Next Level Projects, London, United Kingdom. And Artrepco Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland. Her work was also featured in the 2014 publication The Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture by Jac Scott.

Hasler is currently represented by GUSFORD in Los Los Angeles

Achievements

• In 2014, Hasler won the Greenham Common Commission and created a new work, The Matriarch, that took Greenham Common’s history as a starting point, focusing on the Women's Peace Camp.