Hannah Healey is an art historian specialising in political artistic practices in 1970s Britain.
Her PhD project ‘Art and Solidarity: Artists for Democracy (1974-77)’ is supervised by Prof. Klara Kemp-Welch and explores how Artists for Democracy (AFD) used art to enact solidarity with global liberation movements from the imperial metropole of London. Her research interests include experimental art and radical politics in Britain, and the political possibilities art can visualise and manifest.
She is currently undertaking a CHASE curatorial placement at the Whitechapel Gallery, working on projects including the upcoming retrospective of Chilean artist and AFD co-founder Cecilia Vicuña.
She has worked on contemporary art exhibitions and publications with Marina Abramović, Modern Art Oxford, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts and contributes to the Â鶹TVÍøվ’s Widening Participation projects, seeking to enrich the field of art history by broadening access to art historical study.
Publications
‘Chile Vencerá: Art and the UK Chile Solidarity Movement’, in eds. Grace Livingstone and Tanya Harmer, Chile Solidarity in Britain: Resistance, Rights and Refuge, 1973-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2026) forthcoming
