Hannah Tucker uses photomontage and collage to conjure images from her imagination. She dismantles found images in order to build new ‘skins’ or ‘covers’ that fuse the natural and man-made, often critiquing our relationship with both. Creating new images by camouflaging and disguising the originals, feathers morph into hair, a cityscape merges with oil tankers, using found images to create statements about living systems. She collects and designs images reflective of the natural world in conflict with the man-made environment.
“Moving to Donegal while continuing to work across the Arts & Heritage sector has increased my proximity to nature. Finding and photographing patterns and textures daily that I use within my work. I’m fascinated with patterns and form, I capture and collect images that have something in common, energy expressing itself as form.”
Some of Hannah most recent work uses mixed media with paint, paper and marks. She often creates her own mixed media collage materials and incorporates them into her work to add dimension. Collage scraps she finds and ephemera she collects at markets are woven into her mixed media work.
About the artist:
Hannah studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art and over the past 10 years has exhibited in the UK and Ireland. Since graduating she has moved from sculpture to print-making to photo-montage and mixed media. Eight years spent working at the Natural History Museum increased her interest in the natural world and our relationship with living systems. Hannah’s print work was first exhibited in 2012 in a group exhibition at the Red Bull studios, London. She regularly exhibits at Brixton Urban Art and contributes to group shows at Artlink, all the time working on private commissions.
- October 10, 2021
