Caitlin Hazell GBA

Caitlin Hazell’s practice intertwines the imagined and exaggerated aspects of everyday life with myth, history, and ritual, using absurdity as a tool to draw parallels between real and speculative stories. They are drawn to making objects that feel like props, artefacts from mockumentary, ethnographic studies, or historical reenactments, with a sense of humour. Working across a range of mundane and ancient materials, in a hunter-gatherer approach; dried sea kelp from the Scottish shores, sculptures made using bread flour sourced from the spoil of setting the stones working in London’s only operating heritage windmill, bronze from self-taught casting methods, and stone. These materials reference the changing status of artefacts and relics, mocking the systems that preserve and display them, archaeological digs and the aesthetics/psychology of the souvenir, reflecting material tradition and how we value objects across time.

Caitlin Hazell lives and works in London. They studied BA Fine Art at Kingston University (2017) where some of their graduate work (an apocalyptic game of hide and seek) was included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017, which toured from BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne to Block 336, London. They recently completed an MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art (2024), where they were an RCA/Gilbert Bayes award recipient, and won The Kenneth Armitage Postgraduate Sculptor Prize. Recent exhibitions include In Search of Ghosts, 44AD Artspace, Bath (2025), Take a Seat, Bow Arts x HA.LF, London (2024), On Paper, Greatorex Street, London (2025) and A Hundredth Link in a Chain, outhouse gallery, London (2025) and solo exhibition 'And did those feet in ancient time', a living history takeover at Nunhead Cemetery. In the last year they have completed residencies with Platform Gallery (Finland), theCOLAB, Haarlem Artspace, and a Scholarship at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg, learning stone carving.