Artist

Hattie Quigley

Hattie Quigley (b.2002) is a contemporary British Artist living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hattie Quigley is a visual artist whose practice consists of large scale, energetic and highly saturated oil paintings. Originating from Brighton and now residing in Edinburgh, Hattie received a first class BA(Hons) Painting Degree at Edinburgh College of Art in 2025. Hattie Quigley's artistic practice is interested in extremes. Large-scale paintings act as containers for emotion — feminine desire, hunger, grief, euphoria — too unruly to be expressed plainly. Figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent scenes of intimacy and excess, their bodies caught between celebration and collapse. These are spaces where pleasure is not tamed, where women and other bodies push against the narrow confines of acceptability, claiming the right to feel, want, gorge, and live without apology. Quigley explores what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society — how feminine desire is shaped: the ways it is marketed, policed, commodified, yet still erupts in forms that resist containment. She is drawn to the tension between control and abandon, between the moment of holding back and the moment of giving in. Paint itself becomes food, flesh, light, atmosphere — a sensuous, volatile substance that records touch and pressure. Food is a common thread through which she explores wider themes of erotic desire, power, obsession, capitalism, and consumerism — all dancing around what painting is in its very essence.