Hannah Hall wishes to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, with gratitude for the love and care they show for the land, where she currently lives and works.

Hannah Hall (b. 2000) is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist creating textile-based work that investigates materiality, craft, domesticity, and memory. Influenced by modernist abstraction and late 20th century textile art history, expanded painting and craft practices collide, to create works that occupy a hybrid space between painting and textile. Traditional techniques such as smocking, slashing, pleating, ruffling, and tucking are applied at labour intensive scale to found or gifted materials including old clothes, bedsheets, curtains, and pillowcases. Each piece of material is altered with several staining techniques that use spices, fruits, vegetables, and synthetic pigments, which adopt household tasks where the Kitchen, Laundry, and Washing Lines become an extension of the studio. Using second-hand materials, each work contemplates the presence and absence of unknown moments, bodies, and people, from each material’s history. Hannah’s practice examines relationships between art and craft, revealing the spillages, intimacies, and complexities of textiles, in the unpredictable way they fold, drape, and absorb pigment, but also in the way they evoke memories and emotional responses.

Photography by Hugo Begg