123. Winnie Hall - Elvis Memento

2026
Oil primed linen, mdf, painted postcard, Elvis scrapbook clipping with tape, 4 leaf clover, fabric leaf, ribbon, staples
17 x 15 cm

Winnie Hall’s practice explores the ways we contextualise and interpret the world around us. Drawing from an ever-expanding archive of collected objects — badges, postcards, souvenirs, fan memorabilia, fake cigarettes, novelty items, and found ephemera — her work examines the strange emotional and psychological charge carried by everyday things. These objects exist in deliberate opposition to the increasingly curated and homogenised aesthetics of contemporary life, offering a world of practical jokes, awkward encounters, bus interiors, and low-fi cultural residue instead.

Central to Hall’s practice is the moment of perceptual disruption: the uncomfortable realisation that a jar of nuts is not in fact a jar of nuts, or that a pile of sick is actually a carefully fabricated silicone replica. By manipulating recognition and expectation, Hall slows the speed of interpretation and destabilises the viewer’s assumptions. Humour, discomfort, nostalgia, and absurdity coexist in works that challenge ideas of authenticity, taste, and value, while revealing the emotional textures embedded within overlooked forms of material culture.

Hall is currently completing the Turps Studio Programme (2024–2026) following the Conditions Studio Programme (2020–2022). She completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, London (2017–2020), and undertook an exchange programme at Parsons School of Design, New York (2018–2019). She also completed a Foundation Diploma at Kingston University (2016–2017).

Recent exhibitions include My Lady Nicotine at Bompas & Parr, London (2026); Nine Dot Puzzle at Acme Studios, London (2026); And I Want A Pony at AMP Gallery, London (2026); Cheapside at Hypha Gallery 1, London (2025); Fandom at LAS Gallery, London (2025); and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2023). Hall was also included in New Contemporaries at the South London Gallery and Humber Street Gallery/Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.

In 2022, Hall received Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice funding and was selected for New Contemporaries. Her work is held in the Government Art Collection.