Hannah is a specialist in woven fabrics and constructed textiles, and has worked in textiles for over 20 years as an artist, designer and academic. She gained an MA in Design for Textiles Futures from Central Saint Martins and a Doctorate in Textiles Innovation at the Royal College of Art. As a weaver she is fascinated by how textiles can create sculptural forms. Her textiles investigates the interplay between material characteristics, form and light. Hannah creates wall-based artworks and free standing sculptures. Hannah’s work has been exhibited at Collect, London Craft Week, The Royal Society of Arts, The Lace Museum, Calais and Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
With her QEST Scholarship, Hannah aims to expand her textile art practice beyond woven and stitched textiles to incorporate a wider range of materials and processes. She will attend one-to-one masterclasses in millinery and specialist pleating techniques with Bridget Bailey, and mould making and casting workshops with Mike Onslow. These will provide her with new specialist ‘hands-on’ techniques to manipulate, shape, form and ‘cast’ textiles. She then plans to create innovate artworks through combining these new skills with her weaving and hand-stitching knowledge. Her ultimate goal is to create larger-scale artworks and work on site-specific installations to establish herself as a sculptural textile artist.