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Molly Hankinson
@mollyhankinson.bsky.social
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Visual Artist from SE Ldn based in Glasgow. Will paint on anything. Mainly big walls though ✨️ (she/they)
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Gorgeous large format film portraits of me in my studio by Conor Gault.

#Studio #Portrait #Photography #LargeFormat #FilmCamera
Young woman with short blonde hair and glasses poses in her studio behind a wooden step up, with paints and brushes and canvases int he background. Black and white film photograph. Close up of a young woman with short blonde hair and glasses poses sitting down in her studio. You can see her face and her torso in the shot. A large painting and canvas stretchers are slightly blurred in the the background. She is wearing at shirt. Black and white film photograph.
June 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Swampy lady in Belfast 👹

#Belfast #StreetArt #JunctionBox #Mural
Electrical junction box painted with a green face of a woman with her hand up to her right ear. Yellow frame around her and a pink and blue misty patterned background behind her. Electrical junction box painted with a green face of a woman with her hand up to her right ear. Yellow frame around her and a pink and blue misty patterned background behind her. The shot is further back from across the road and you can see the building behind her.
May 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Can’t wait to jump across to #Belfast this #MayBankHoliday to paint at Hit the North #StreetArt Festival! Look at this lineup what an honour. See you in a couple of weeks 🔥🦋
Street art festival poster showing A-Z lineup of contributing artists. The white text sits over a painted brick wall background. At the top it says HIT THE NORTH and the date 04.05.25.
April 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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‘Dissolve Your Boundaries’

The sun finally came out for long enough to get the cones out and take some proper documentation of my mural outside Tramway. Full pano below ❤️

#Glasgow #Mural #PublicArt #Community #Commission
Panorama photo of a 70m long mural wall. The mural is bright and colourful and consists of figures, plants and other objects representing the the community of Pollokshields in Glasgow. The phrase ‘Dissolve Your Boundaries’ runs throughout the wall from left to right.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Last year I was commissioned by Tramway to create this mural with and for the lovely people of #Pollokshields on Albert Drive.

Huge thanks to Glasgow Gurdwara, Glendale Women’s Cafe, and the young people of Albert Primary for helping identify themes for the design.

#Mural #Glasgow
Photo of a mural wall showing a young woman learning on a ledge looking out of a the window. There are lily pads underneath her in blues, greens and pinks. The world your in black sits bottom left of the photo in the mural. Above the woman on the top ledge there are books with titles on their spines such as Food, Plants, Stories, Friends, all things that make up a community. Photo of a mural wall showing a Sikh woman sitting cross legged on the floor reaching for a plate of food. There are pits and pans stacked behind her in the window and there is also a mug of chai tea at her feet. There is a potted house plant to her left. The colours are bright and the style graphic and illustrative. Photo of a mural wall showing a young woman lying down in the ground with her arms behind her back. It’s bright and multicoloured style. There is a sky with sunrise and some misty clouds behind her. She is lying in front of a tree. There are yellows greens pinks and blues making up the background.
April 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Magnolia coming into bloom this morning in Langside 🌸

#Glasgow #Spring #Southside
Photo of a magnolia tree coming into bloom with a blue sky behind it and a row of tenement sandstone terraced houses.
April 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Been feeling a bit of this lately
Photo of a piece of white paper pinned to a wooden easel. In black ink with a brush reads the word CONFUSHON with three letters per row in three rows, filling the whole page.
March 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I got to paint this uncanny #portrait of my pal as #RobbieBurns, who he’s playing in @wonderfools.org’s upcoming play The Kelton Hill Fair. A mad brief I found very fun and refreshing. You should go see it in #Glasgow next week!
A photo of a man standing in a sunny street with tenement buildings behind him. He is holding an oil painting portrait of himself as Robbie Burns, like a copy of the well known painting. Photo still if a woman painting a copy portrait of Robbie Burns, with someone else face. The canvas is leaning on a wooden easel and the artist is half in shot off to the left hand side. Her paintbrush is touching the nose of the portrait. Portrait of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Finished copy of the portrait of Robbie Burns changed to be someone else’s face.
March 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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My copies of AD Magazine arrived in the post yesterday! Such a buzz to see my #illustration on the front cover 🙌

I loved chatting to @drrachpayne.bsky.social about the intersection of #art, #education and #gender for this issue. Thanks so much for having me ❤️

#Interview #Feature
Photo of the front cover of a magazine with a colourful illustration showing two women, one in a wheelchair getting their hair clippers by another figure standing behind them. They are in a kitchen. The style of the illustration is graphic and bold. An open double page spread of a magazine with photos of artwork and an interview style feature.
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I sold this #painting and her forever home couldn’t be more beautiful 🙌
Photograph of a living room with parquet flooring, white walls and mid century furniture. On a sideboard there is a large colourful painting of a woman leaning on her elbow. There are also other prints leaning against the walls on either side of the sideboard and there is a plant in the left hand side of the photograph.
March 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Not a skip.
Photo of a yellow skip in a car park with a black warehouse behind it. On the skip someone has written in black spray paint ‘NOT A SKIP’
March 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Quick #selfportrait

#Charcoal
Black and white charcoal drawing of a woman with shirt hair looking over her shoulder. She has a strap over her shoulder and she’s looking directly at the viewer. She looks slightly worried or confrontational. The portrait is enclosed in a portrait rectangle.
March 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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'The Ham' by Manet is one of my favourite paintings in the whole world.

Lucky enough to have it just down the road at The Burrell Collection.

#TheBurrellCollection #Glasgow #Manet #StillLife #Painting
A still life painting of a ham on a plate with a knife resting on the table in front of it. It has a thick gilded frame and is hanging against a dark blue wall.
February 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Dropped this lady off at her new home this afternoon ❤️

#Art #Painting #Woman #Artsky
#FemaleNude #MixedMedia
Photo of a large brightly coloured painting of a nudr woman lying down, with her arm resting over her head. The painting is leaning against the side of a large industrial lift.
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Took a wee jaunt down to my mural opposite Tramway this morning 🌼🌸

#Glasgow #Mural #Community #PublicArt #Commission
A section of a mural that says 'Boundaries' embedded into the design. It's brightly coloured. There are some hands holding up signs that say 'No to Racism' and 'Festival of Resistance'. There is a silhouettes of a black dog sitting with his back to the viewer, and there is a football flying over his head. There are bright symbols representing buildings, a basketball court, clouds, and books on a shelf. Section of a bright and colourful mural showing a Sikh woman sitting cross legged on the floor sorting out a plate of food, with curry and chapatis on the plate. The background is pink and yellow. The top section if a long colourful mural with bright bold symbols and motifs. There is a moon and stars, a potted plant with a monster vine climbing up the wall, as well as lilypads, books and a box of mangoes in the mural. There as also a woman leaning wistfully against the edge of the wall and looking out of the 'window' up at the sky. Another photograph of a long colourful mural, this time from a different angle and with the silhouette of a dog in the foreground, the mural dissappears into to distance to the left hand side of the photograph.
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I got let loose on a bike frame one morning for charity!

XOBikes are an initiative local to where i grew up who train prison leavers to become bike mechanics, decreasing their chances of re-offending whilst teaching them new transferable skills.

#BikeFrame #Charity #Painting #Handpainted
A woman balances a colourful hand painted bike frame over her head. She is standing behind a wooden garden fence.
February 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#WIP as of Friday messing about with mark making and colour placement in a very instinctual way. A break away from my usual process

#Studio #Painting #Abstract
Two abstract paintings lean against a studio wall with unstretched canvas hanging behind. The paintings are abstract mixed media work in progress and consist of different marks, squiggles, loops and block shapes. The main colours consist of dark blues, oranges, pinks and yellows. The marks are made using a combination of spray paint abd acrylic brush work.
February 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Back in the studio and getting silly with it
A wip photo of two small colourful abstract paintings leaning on a wooden shelf. There are pinks, orange, yellow, dark greens and blues cresting bold shapes and patterns. The paintings are mixed media using spray paint and acrylics. There are two mdg boards leaning underneath the easel against a white breeze block wall.
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Back in the uk to a very frosty Hillyfields 🩵

#Brockley #London
The sun rises behind some bare winter trees in a park. The sun is weakly streaming through. The grass is green, and it looks very cold and misty on the horizon.
February 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Fintan Magee spotted in Newtown, Sydney 🤌
Photo of a street corner in sydney showing a large mural of two people, one sitting on top of the other who is on all fours. A piece of furniture floats away on a bundle of balloons.
February 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Playing around with some #cyanotype exposing with sunlight and developing it in the creek.
Six developing A6 sheets of cyanotype paper on a wooden picnic table. They have found natural elements like gum leaves and tree bark exposed into them. Two small sheets of cyanotype paper floating fave up developing in a stony creek with very clear water. Some found natural objects lying on a wooden picnic table. Some gum leaves are being exposed onto a small sheet of cyanotype paper in the bottom right hand corner. In the top right someone's hand has a seed pod up to the light.
February 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Car and dog wash 👍
Business sign at the side of the road that says Car & Dog Wash. There is a red fence around the sign and a big tree behind it.
January 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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The Magritte exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW was incredible. Was basically just grinning like an idiot the whole time, the photos barely do it justice 🌒

#Magritte #Sydney #Exhibition
Painting of a smashed window in a room with a dusky sky beyond the curtains. A bright orange sun sits in the middle of the sky. On thr shards of glass on the floor you can also see the same sky broken up with the shards of glass, unlike a reflection but as if am opaque painting of the sky beyond has broken. Painting of a huge grey rock in the middle of a room with orangey brown wooden floorboards. There is a window abd a railing behind the rock and beyond that a seascape. A portrait of Magrittes wife in the centre of a painting enclosed by an oval mirror. There is sky a clouds around her and from left clockwise there is a key, a bird, a leaf branch, a candle, a glove, and a note on crumpled paper surrounding her floating in the sky. A painting of a room with a pink floor, at the back there is a painting of a rough sea and a boat, on either wall there are what's looks like chip boards with squares cut out of them leaning against the edges. There is a white table in the foreground with a mannequins hand
January 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Spent NY at Dinner For One Hundred in Nunhead which is a very good friend of mine's restaurant. Just down the road from where we all grew up. I made this print for him as a congrats on the new bar present back in 2023, was nice to see it still going strong in the wild ❤️
January 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A great big bushy beard 🎅🎄✨️
December 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM