Rosy Hanna
Credit: Lem Campbell
About the Artist
Rosy Hanna‘s egg tempera paintings consider the mundanity and mystery of everyday life. Using various recognizable symbols and settings of cities–escalators, bridges, cars–Hanna first prompts and then disrupts an atmosphere of the familiar. In its distortions of perspective, scale, and narrative, alongside its slow development and traditional technique, Hanna’s practice explores the psychological impact of contemporary urban life. The uncanny nature of Hanna’s work asks the viewer to rethink assumptions of the permanence and logic of those structures we inhabit and uphold.
Rosy Hanna (b. 2001, Toronto, ON) is currently working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions in Montréal, notably in A Set of Favours at Fais-Moi L’art (2026), and is part of the Art Volt Collection at Concordia.
About the Project
In Rosy's recent work, using the traditional technique of egg tempera painting, she has been exploring the repeated motif of a bridge, disrupting the vantage point from which the bridge begins or ends, and recontextualizing the transportation structure as a location of action and narrative. During the Romany Eveleigh residency, Rosy visited the Pont Couvert de Sainte Placide and made two small egg tempera paintings in response to the bridge itself. These paintings reconsider the form of the bridge as a stage for unfolding events and its history as a fixed location of narrative drama and action.
