This exhibition Queer Monumentality presents the artistic research of artist Hannah Honeywill, developed during her PhD at Coventry University. Through sculpture, film, and print, the work reimagines monumentality not as something fixed or permanent, but as something lived and ongoing. Projects emerging from a British Council Fellowship at the Venice Biennale and a residency at the home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears are shown alongside artworks addressing local histories and the collective grief of COVID-19. The exhibition considers how memory might be held through agitation, care, repetition, and vulnerability rather than permanence or authority.
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Open Secret 1 -5 2024
Hand pulled screen print on somerset paper gilded with 23 3/4 carat gold leaf. Installed at Royal Society of Sculptors, London. 
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In Their Space, now in view at Dora House. This touring exhibition features work by three sculptors,Alison Cooke MRSS, Hannah Honeywill MRSS, and Rebecca Griffiths MRSS who were resident artists at The Red House, Aldeburgh between 2020 and 2023. The residencies were organised by the Royal Society of Sculptors in partnership with Britten Pears.
Each of the artists’ works in this exhibition were made in response to their individual, self-directed research projects at The Red House, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears former home. Rebecca Griffiths’ sculptures explore the megastructure of the Sizewell B nuclear power station and reflects on its current and future impact on the Suffolk coastal landscape. Alison Cooke's art focuses on Britten’s carer, Rita Thomson, and the deep bond between carer and composer. Using local clay from Aldeburgh, she highlights the importance of caregivers. Through sculptures and drawings, Hannah Honeywill explores the open secret of Britten and Pears’ relationship. Her work resonates with the experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals navigating public spaces. 
Gilded Shadow 2024
Mild steel plate gilded with 23 3/4 carat gold leaf. Installed on the Sculpture Terrace Royal Society of Sculptors, London |