Hannah Bennett
Bio
I’m an artist living and working in London. I gained a first class degree in fashion and textiles while studying at a London institute. I currently work in further education alongside working as an artist. Spending time in an art department is rewarding in many ways from sharing inspiration to finding unconventional tecniques and offcuts for my art practice. I have used social media from the time of the pandemic to connect with a vibrant, welcoming and inspiring community of collage makers. I have had the pleasure of taking part in challenges, swaps and have also gained success in being included in online shows and print publications such as Morphic Rooms, Editions #1 (2022) and Arizona collage collectives’ Transitional Moments (2021). I was also selected to exhibit in a group show titled ‘Tiled’ which was held in a Nolias Gallery, near London Bridge. I am developing my voice as a maker and artist through all of my experiences to date and am excited to continue.
Artist Statement
My studies allowed me to continue investigating the body and the idea of layering and concealment. My collage practice contains traces of this: The work is fundamentally about the body and how it is viewed. I work mostly using found and constructed material in paper and sometimes textiles. Found imagery is charged with social content and I use this to talk about ideas around beauty, presence, and the language of commodity. I work at carefully constructing pictorial space to explore spatial relationships of body. During the process of making, I look at deconstructing, reconstruction and sometimes distorting imagery. Understanding the distance from subject such material can create, I utilise methods that allow me to produce images that are textural and information rich.
The act of cutting out helps strip away traditional representations and conceptions of the male gaze. What I love about collage is the making new. Exchanging formal values of beauty through collage is a way of subverting hierarchies and creating my own myths.
It allows for a multiple perspective that makes way for optimism and possibility. I aim to make the viewer an active participant into the production of content. These perceptions are how I like to view and share the world.
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Hannah Bennett
My studies allowed me to continue investigating the body and the idea of layering and concealment. My collage practice contains traces of this: The work is fundamentally about the body and how it is viewed. I work mostly using found and constructed material in paper and sometimes textiles. Found imagery is charged with social content and I use this to talk about ideas around beauty, presence, and the language of commodity. I work at carefully constructing pictorial space to explore spatial relationships of body. During the process of making, I look at deconstructing, reconstruction and sometimes distorting imagery. Understanding the distance from subject such material can create, I utilise methods that allow me to produce images that are textural and information rich.
The act of cutting out helps strip away traditional representations and conceptions of the male gaze. What I love about collage is the making new. Exchanging formal values of beauty through collage is a way of subverting hierarchies and creating my own myths.
It allows for a multiple perspective that makes way for optimism and possibility. I aim to make the viewer an active participant into the production of content. These perceptions are how I like to view and share the world.
