Hannah Gartside

“She uses deadstock fabrics, clothes found in skips and op shops or given to her by friends, garments of dead relatives and fur from pets. For the artist, clothes are psychic objects that not only have history (a faded menstrual stain, the scent of a beloved) but presence; material has its own life… In this sense, the sculptures are about fabric itself, the singular way in which material is able to articulate the immaterial – a current of air, an undertow of desire. Fabric also has its own sound world and Gartside is listening to what it is saying, ‘pulsing, sighing, calling to us’.”

– Hannah Fink, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art catalogue essay

Read: Hannah Gartside,  This Body Is Experiencing Pleasure Catalogue essay – Tiarney Miekus 2023

Read: Short story Frances, the moth – Hannah Gartside 2023

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Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Open-bodice moth in the starlight’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin and chiffon dresses and tops c.2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, thread, black oxidised brass eyelets 82 cm x 89 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Frances and Yolande become open-bodice moths’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses and found knickers c.2020), silk fabric (found chiffon dress c. 2010s), found stockings c. 1960s,found silk crepe tap pants c.1920s, wool felt, thread 165 cm x 135 cm x 11 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Frances and Yolande become open-bodice moths’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses and found knickers c.2020), silk fabric (found chiffon dress c. 2010s), found stockings c. 1960s,found silk crepe tap pants c.1920s, wool felt, thread 165 cm x 135 cm x 11 cm (detail) from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Frances and Yolande become open-bodice moths’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses and found knickers c.2020), silk fabric (found chiffon dress c. 2010s), found stockings c. 1960s,found silk crepe tap pants c.1920s, wool felt, thread 165 cm x 135 cm x 11 cm (detail) from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Frances and Yolande become open-bodice moths’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses and found knickers c.2020), silk fabric (found chiffon dress c. 2010s), found stockings c. 1960s,found silk crepe tap pants c.1920s, wool felt, thread 165 cm x 135 cm x 11 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside, ‘Wire fence at night’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses and tops c.2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, deadstock wool fabric, thread, black oxidised brass eyelets 77 cm x 67 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside ‘Shoe-bow moths fly towards a street light’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses c.2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, jet (found tassel beads c. 1910s), thread, black oxidised brass eyelets 42 cm x 31 cm x 2 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside ‘Shoe-bow moths fly towards a street light’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses c.2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, jet (found tassel beads c. 1910s), thread, black oxidised brass eyelets 42 cm x 31 cm x 2 cm (detail) from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside ‘Shoe-bow moths fly towards a street light’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses c.2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, jet (found tassel beads c. 1910s), thread, black oxidised brass eyelets 42 cm x 31 cm x 2 cm (detail) from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023
Installation view, Hannah Gartside ‘Party in the sky’ 2023 polyester fabric (found sequin dresses c. 2010-2020), deadstock cotton fabric, thread, brass eyelets 211 cm x 137 cm x 2 cm from the exhibition, ‘This body is experiencing pleasure’ 14 October – 11 November 2023