Based in my studio in Woodbridge, Suffolk in UK, I am an artist working with textiles, moving image, sculpture and print through my entanglement with my materials and processes. My practice stitches together traditional textile techniques, such as embroidery and soft sculpture, with video and installation. I have recently completed an MA in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts.

My most recent work, Uncertainty : Being Textile, is an installation comprising of two video projections folded around a collection of sculptural elements and communicates my experiences and feelings of uncertainty as a postmenopausal woman, a mother with an empty nest and an artist.  I explore within a textile environment using an endoscope camera which offers a fresh approach to working with textiles, revealing both the outside and inside of a work. Whilst textiles are central to my practice, my work with intaglio print and video allows me to consider textiles in another way. This multidisciplinary approach enables me to investigate themes of identity, transition, ageing and being human, inviting viewers to reflect on their own experience of uncertainty and change.

 

hannah@hannahrae.co.uk