Hanne Peeraer is an interdisciplinary artist, coach and researcher working at the intersection of perception, neuroaesthetics and meaning-making. She works in various disciplines to translate complexity into something real and felt.
Her artwork connects perception, cognitive science, and nature to look at the relationship between illusion and meaning-making. Through magic, light, and sensation, she explores the psychology of analytical thinking and uses her intuition to find new ways for her pieces to reveal complex scientific structures.
As an integration coach and learning consultant in higher education, Hanne uses a systems thinking approach to build new ways for students to thriveโhelping them feel emboldened, aligned, and courageous, while deepening trust in themselves and in the connection between their inner world and external learning.
Hanneโs creative urge started when having to heal from mourning in early life, and her work today acts as a similar counterforce to the cynicism and resignation that we feel when facing of uncertain futures. Her art uses materials that capture or reflect their environment; translucent paper, frosted glass, light-refracting prisms. The goal is for them to become signifiers of knowledge and meaning that heighten perceptual awareness and self-reflection: an invitation to feel the urgency and call to action in a way that diagrams and data cannot.
![If you look at things as if they had the power of looking back at you, everything comes to life in response. From Rilke’s famous poem, ending with:
“[…]: ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ
๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c234ee5b10598d9d8f069eb/1729866342676-ZMOHRJO35879OOF0E8DX/image-asset.jpeg)
recent projects
(actress) Hell, Nowness Experiments, dir. Tom Brett. 2025
(solo) Soft Reset, Soho Revue, London, UK. 2025
(group) In Scope, Hypha HQ, London UK. 2025
collectives & collaborations
Interdisciplinary Artist & Facilitator, Minds Studio
Visual Arts & Science Associate, ICENS lab: Interdisciplinary Climate Economics for Nature and Society
Artist & collective member, SEADS: Space Ecologies Art and Design
education
2024 MASc Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods, The London Interdisciplinary School, London, UK.
2022 MA Painting, the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2020 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK.
grants, awards & prizes
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, London, UK.
2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Grant for MA Painting year 2, the Royal College of Art), Quebec, Canada.
talks, lectures & workshops
2024 Your Brain on LUCA, talk & workshop, The London Interdisciplinary School, London, UK.
2024 Earth on Heaven, artistโs talk, hARTslane gallery, London, UK.
2024 Thinking with Your Eyes, talk, The London Interdisciplinary School, London, UK.
2022 Pontormo and Magic, artistโs talk, The National Gallery, London, UK.
2019 Time in 2D, workshop series, The British Museum, Prints and Drawings Room, London, UK. with thanks to the Bridget Riley Arts Foundation.
press
2025 Hanne Peeraer: Soft Reset, Art Plugged. read at artplugged.co.uk
selected shows
2024 Swab Barcelona, Soho Revue, Swab Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain.
2024 Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), SEADS, the London Interdisciplinary School, London, UK.
2024 The Second Body, Soho Revue, London, UK.
2023 Melt, Hypha Studios X Creative Land Trust, London, UK.
2022 Now 2022, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK.
2022 A Feast for the Eyes, studio/chapple, StART Fair Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
2022 Omitted References, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK.
2022 Royal College of Art Degree Show, London, UK. 2022.rca.ac.uk
2022 Hypnagogia, 20/22 La Poudriรจre, Brussels, Belgium.
2022 Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK. blueshopcottage.com
2022 Meet Me By The River, Purslane Gallery, UK. purslane.co.uk
2022 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, and Firstsite, Colchester, UK. and online at bnc2021.newcontemporaries.org.uk
2021 Les Danses Nocturnes, eastcontemporary, Spread Museum Entrevaux, France.
2021 Raphael: Emerging artists respond, The British Museum, London, UK.
2021 The Ceiling with a Tranquil Eye, 24 Cork Street Gallery, London, UK.
2020 Penultimatum, The Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
2019 GIFC & Velvet Ropes London, House of Vans, London, UK.
2019 Reimagine - The Collection Reinterpreted, Orleans House Gallery, London, UK.
2018 Stock Up On Air, Nunnery Gallery at Bow Arts, London, UK.