Tolarno Galleries
Hannah Gartside
United Kingdom
Hannah Gartside works across kinetic sculpture, installation and quilt-making. Characteristically sensual and poetic, her works transform and in some cases animate, worn clothing, found fabric and ephemera. Her works articulate and make tangible emotional realms: longing, tenderness, care, desire and fury.
Recent commissions include Forest Summons (for Lilith) at the Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria for Melbourne Now, 2023, and Loie, Lilith, Sarah, Pixie and Artemisia for Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Gartside is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship and winner of the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. She has undertaken residencies at Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (2020) and in California at the Varda Artist Residency (2017). Prior to her visual art training, Gartside worked as costume-maker and theatre dresser for five years.