Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings are a London-based artist duo whose collaborative practice explores the histories, cultures and politics of LGBTQ+ communities. Working across film, drawing, installation, performance and fresco, they examine the social structures that shape identity, desire and belonging, creating works that challenge dominant narratives while foregrounding overlooked histories and forms of collective experience.

Bringing together archival research, historical references and contemporary observations, Quinlan and Hastings investigate how power operates through culture, architecture, language and representation. Their work frequently focuses on the ways queer communities have created spaces of resistance, solidarity and self-expression within societies shaped by exclusion and discrimination. Through carefully constructed visual narratives, they reveal how personal lives are intertwined with broader political and social conditions, asking how histories are remembered, who is permitted visibility and what forms of community remain possible.

In 2021, the duo participated in London Zeitgeist, a group exhibition curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal for CIRCA. Conceived as a contemporary response to Rosenthal’s landmark 1982 exhibition Zeitgeist, the project brought together a generation of artists living and working in London whose practices reflected the city’s evolving cultural landscape. Broadcast across public screens in London, Seoul and Tokyo, Quinlan and Hastings’ commission Everything Is Folly In This World That Does Not Give Us Pleasure explored queer dance as a space of freedom, pleasure and identity formation. Drawing inspiration from Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, the work examined how movement, gathering and joy can become forms of resistance to social and ideological constraints. Accompanied by a time-limited edition of the same title, the project reflected the artists’ ongoing commitment to preserving and celebrating queer histories and cultures.

Quinlan and Hastings have exhibited internationally at institutions including the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, the New Museum, Kunsthalle Wien and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Through a practice that combines historical inquiry with contemporary urgency, they continue to create works that illuminate the complex relationships between identity, community and power, while imagining more inclusive and liberatory futures.